Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

I often wonder if, indeed, any beyond a select few have actually stopped to carefully consider exactly where America stands at present and why?  Within the course of our condition as a nation increasingly divided, one must, at some point, strongly consider the fact that most of America has yet to simply pause and conduct a bit of inward reflection, putting politics completely aside-- if but only for a moment--to ascertain where the nation currently finds itself, while leveraging minimal amounts of common sense into the analytical process for a change.

Unfortunately, it now seems that a daunting number of individuals simply lack the neutrally charged intellectual honesty, if not the overall capacity, to initiate such a radical, soul-searching process. This experiment, if you will, being to at least try to gain a quick glimpse of the little used but ever-present knowing derived esoterically, rather than ideologically, from our latest of painful realities.

In that particular vein, and once upon a time, long, long ago, a great and extraordinarily learned man was poetically inspired to write the following:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Interestingly, the preamble to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, speaks to us across a multitude of thought-provoking fronts when considering these words under the varying straits of the human condition, if not polemic.  So, what might the modern-day cause which will impel us to our political separation actually be? Could it possibly be our fatalistic governmental expedition into what is, unarguably, a mindless mountain of indefatigable debt unchecked?

An Enormous  Debt Politicized

Could it further be that while one political faction fights to maintain and even worsen that debt, another opposing faction seeks to only mitigate the damage rather than entirely defeating it but out of "forgivable" political expediency?

And, for Heaven's sake, since when did a staggering mass of IOU's become politicized to such a degree that those, who will remain unnamed, but who have ordinarily shown what could be described as an extraordinary amount of wisdom and thoughtfulness, now set themselves to literally howling in abject denial of the truth that unimaginable debt is now a good and necessary thing, if not only for just a wee bit longer.

The simple fact is that a difficult debt is not a good thing--period--and a debt, be it good or bad, cares not for the various ideological sways one way or another. A terrible debt cares not for the way it was amassed nor the way that it was used, nor does it care for the way that it will be inflated or defeated, it simply exists and naturally grows, monolithically, in our case, until, by some various means, it doesn't, and this is what those few who do understand are painfully trying to rectify. Debt, in other words, is neither political or apolitical, it simply is--or at least it was.....

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