Letter of American Greatness

“Make America Great Again” isn’t a state of being. It’s not “great” at a point of time. Greatness is a journey. We were great when we rid ourselves of the sin of slavery, we were great when promoting civil rights. Great when we essentially abolished hunger and advanced medicine. When we got along. Built a hundred manhattans. Now our cities are decayed and hollowed out which are the fruits of any nation. And ours are rotten to the core. Our governments were prudent in its expenditures and budgets. Now we are addicted to spending and printing money. Asset inflation for the rich and consumer staple inflation for the poor. We were great when a young person could own a home which solidifies long-term orientation and a sense of care for a community you can’t get with nomading. We knew the value of a society not overburdened with taxes. As that society allows its people to enhance the world around them. Instead of having all the issues government brings subsidized and maximized. We have a sick citizenry. Medicine isn’t a cure. It’s a prescriber model and an intentional one. When food was in our backyard, or in our neighbor’s backyard, or in our city, or even in our own country for that matter. And now food is a collection of manufactured chemicals to form an addictive product that we have down to a science. We used to care for our insane in asylums. Now we avoid them as we attend our favorite sport or musician with a ticket the price of which would prolong their high or feed them for a month. For the more affluent insane, we give them likes and follows until they crash out or don’t.…When we built and took pride in our work and now we import from foreign adversaries. When freedom meant advancing liberties for a moral and just society. Now freedom means advancing degeneracy and relinquishment from consequences. Our entertainment used to inspire upward and now it indulges in narcissism and nihilism. We used to be rooted in faith and now our churches are being turned into alcoholic dens, overpriced apartments, and mosques. We used to enter wars to end them. Now we have forever wars. We used to build lifelong sustainable railroads. Now we build crumbling roads built for machines that destroy wealth. We were great when the social contract for the average family worked and worked well. When people at a young age had a strong place in our society from the get-go. When we improved working conditions elevating the dignity of the middle class. When mothers could stroll their babies leisurely to get food and nourishment where humans were the primary form of transportation. Now they must strap their baby into a machine, drive 50 miles an hour to get “nourishment” or anything at all for that matter. Unless they walk through mud and grass filled with geese waste from the hundredth retention pond in the suburbs. There is no greatness in that. Or When children could remain as children but now prematurely innocence is ripped away from them by a click of a button without parental support. Now we rely on overworked teachers to raise American kids in a failing public education system. When the elder population was present and integrated into our families and communities- looked to for wisdom and guidance. Now elders are outsourced to pocketed living so they can escape the mess they helped create. When a person could ride the damn bus in peace without getting accosted or their throat sliced open. We used to aspire for racial blindness, or at least cohesion, as we are all God’s children, not erasing cultural color, but promoting meritocracy and individuality. And now we worship identity politics. More divided than ever. We used to be a nation, a people. We agreed on our shared history, identity, and American spirit. Our ideals, values, and purpose was a storm as they joined but it was one force still. When rigorous civil discussion and disagreement was embraced by a merging of minds and intellect. And not a merging of body and brass. We have just as much reason today to have internal war than during our, I pray, one and only Civil War. That is because we have irreconcilable differences. We only have a few short years left to rectify these things, civically, through courts and law and dinner tables.  And most importantly inside the minds of our people before it’s too late. Before violence will become the answer. First it’ll be rogue assassins, then it will be fringe groups who start considering violence as an option. Those groups will attack and get dates in history books. Historians years later will organize these attacks in order of importance by comparing death tolls. And not by how we lived them today. People will weep and become even more fervent in their ideals. Until more and more will mobilize and organize, the fringe groups will become popular, even mainstream. All people will pick a side they identify with, and those identity groups will ally themselves with one another. Until it’s inevitable. Speech breeds truth. War breeds lies. America was great. She led the world on many fronts. Her country was beautiful both naturally and architecturally, high trust with a respectful handshake and a man’s word. America discriminating against its 19th century immigrants was not great. But America stayed great for these people contributed and were allowed them to lift themselves up. They built and bred and submitted to the divine. We were great when we were not an economic zone, but a nation. And a great nation, or any nation, has borders. And when guests are invited and want to transform themselves to Americans we must teach them. We cannot teach them when we, ourselves, are not proud. If we are not proud, how can any foreign born be. If we do not know who we are how will they? They will default to identifying with their home country. And of course they will, who can blame them. The rise of multiculturalism. We have forgotten that to say “America is great” is an inclusive statement. As the Down trotted and lowly ARE still America. To say America isn’t great is to say I am not great and neither are you. It’s a perfect embodiment of our country losing its confidence and position. We don’t even agree on progress anymore. We were great when we knew what we wanted, just disagreed how to get there. To say America is great doesn’t refer to our government’s actions specifically. It also involves the people. As it’s very American to rebel against these authorities in any regard. America was great at its founding not because of the sins of its fathers, but despite these sins they built a free nation only beholden to God Almighty. Though greatness, not equally applied at our founding, is a promise so universal all will dream to join it. Greatness to seek freedom from Christian persecution overseas……You see, Greatness is a goal whereby pursuing it you achieve it. As any man can live and die great then fall after death. If you believe we cannot be great if we are with sin we never will be. With my definition  we can forever be. TO Greatness as a trajectory and a journey. We embodied this. We don’t anymore. It is not a state of being as we will never be perfect. We are always with sin. But through penance we can be born again. I pray we are born again. May God bless America.