I don’t mean America.
Oh, we will continue to call it America, but in reality, this land will not be the same land in another decade.
This isn’t necessarily tragic, as our country is vastly changed from decades past. Some of these changes are good (more equality of races, genders, more tolerance for certain things) while some are plain shameful (like killing 4,000+ babies a day … legally).
The changes over the next decade, however, will come even more quickly. With a Democratic/neo-communist president and close to a 60 seat majority in the Senate and a Democratic party dedicated to instituting European socialism (which, ironically, has failed in many ways) and a mainstream media applauding every step, the snowball will pick up steam (that is a bad mixed metaphor, by the way … but you get what I mean).
The banks and the auto industry are on the verge of being nationalized, socialized healthcare will be pushed this upcoming session, and there are more inane and senseless rules piling up by the day. Ah, socialism.
Unless another 9/11 happens in the next few years (which I do NOT hope for), Obama will get re-elected. His image is Clinton-esque and flawlessly packaged by every media outlet except Fox News (and they get accused of being “hateful” for not going along with the whole plan). And with more and more immigrants coming from socialistic nations (Korea, India, etc.), these neo-communist ideas are very attractive.
(Don’t go into the logic that these groups have had to immigrate to our country because the opportunities aren’t there in their own socialistic countries … it will just frustrate you … unfortunately, these immigrant groups still hold onto their socialistic ideas, even in the face of abject failure, as they are personal testimonies of.)
I’ve made no secret that I feel neo-communism is the wrong direction to go in. That’s not the point of this post, however. My point is that I’ve livied in a country where all that a neo-communist could desire already exists.
Not only did I survive, it wasn’t that bad.
It’s true. I lived, got sick, got well, had a baby, paid my taxes, drove on the roads, ate food, wore clothes, worshipped with the Body. You know. Lived pretty well.
Another country might have been a different story. Maybe. Living in that country, I can also tell you the problems that innately come with neo-communism. You don’t, in reality, fix anything. You just trade one set of problems for another, and in my opinion, even bigger ones.
But to express fear of the direction of our country is just silly. Again, disagreement based on facts is good and healthy in a republic, but to use gloom and doom to sell your position is quite extreme.
Conservatives and liberals both do it. Obama is taking full advantage of what he calls “the biggest financial crisis in our history” to force his neo-communist agenda on the rest of the country. His “stimulus” bill isn’t stimulating anything; it is designed to completely reshape the economy of our country into European socialism.
But even if he succeeds, I’ve lived in that country and it ain’t so bad. Some things were ridiculously stupid; other aspects were really well-done and thought out.
I’ll take health care as an example. I never had a major problem with the health care in Korea. And the problems I did have were more cultural differences than connected to the idea of socialized health care. I found Korean health care to be affordable and accesible, and in some ways more technologically advanced than American health care.
But just as every block or so you’ll have a little store in Korea, like a shoe store or a little market or an internet cafe, you will also have a little abortion clinic. That’s right, little convenient places to kill babies all over town.
You mean a successfully socialized health care system didn’t diminish the killing of babies? Nope. Sorry. Just as big a problem as ever, if not more.
I’ve seen the successes of these ideals, and I’ve seen the failures. (Well, to me they are failures; to modern Democrats, the ultimate convenience of killing a baby anytime you want is a success, too.)
But I survived. And ministered and preached and grew in the Lord and watched others grow in the Lord and met good people and dealt with jerks. Not saying one system is more conducive than another, only that God was still God and I was still able to follow him with all my heart.
So don’t be afraid of living in that country. Disagree with the stupidity of it, vote your conscience and all that, but don’t do it out of fear.
Peace.