Originally Posted by
Lee Chowaniec
This is who we were.
This old man repeatedly hears, ‘this is not who we are’. I really don’t recognize who we are anymore, but I do know who we were.
Born and raised in the depression, old enough to remember the last days of WWII, living through the Korean Conflict, married, and losing a job in the 1958 recession, the Cuban Missel Crisis, the Cold War, Vietnam…American was united in cause and a good outcome was expected.
I was brought up with principles like:
• Life isn’t fair,
• The world doesn’t owe you a living,
• Work hard and you will succeed,
• Live within your means, not like the Jones,
• Charity begins at home. Take care of family first,
• Treat someone like you want to be treated.
• Love America, it’s the greatest, most generous country in the world.
Many of those values are no longer in today’s ‘woke’ America. My grandparents on both sides emigrated from Poland at the turn of the 20th century, but I am being profiled as a white, privileged, descendant of slave owners who owes reparations for a practice held over 150 years ago. Stigmatized as an inbred racist because I’m white, admonished as being a deplorable and misogynist because I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, and deserving of chastisement because I am a ‘blank’ and despise both major political parties and the biased media for creating and fostering the toxic America we now live in - in their best interests, not ours.
President Biden declared in his Fourth of July address that the country is coming together. Really? I find that difficult to believe when I am being told on this very holiday that flying my flag (as I have done for decades) and celebrating our country’s birthday and its independence has racial overtones.
While many are walking on eggs trying not to offend another, others are openly going out of their way to disrespect and cancel another’s freedom of speech / opinion - and getting away with it.
Belly up to the bar folks, the drinks are on the house! Problem is, we are the house – and a heavily mortgaged one at that.
Worried of the direction this now lawless country is going in? You should be!