The death of America and how to save it

Only a virtuous people is capable of freedom.

This statement was made by one of America’s greatest founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin. It is a simple but powerful statement. Unfortunately, it is remarkably neglected, unrecognized by, let alone demonstrated by, the masses.

Freedom is America’s number one asset. It is a privilege to be free and to live in a free country, not a right. Also, there are no guarantees of freedom. Throughout its history, many American citizens have died to create and protect their most precious asset. Others have died to get it by risking their lives to come to the United States. The freedom that America has enjoyed was created by virtue, that amalgamation of personal qualities and characteristics that are of a lofty, exalted, honorable, and noble magnitude, qualities such as courage, sacrifice, selflessness, self-control, discipline, dedication, hard work, independence, honesty and personal integrity.

But look around you. Where do these qualities manifest in our leaders and the general public? Where is the concern for freedom itself, not self interest or personal agendas? Where is the sacrifice? Where is the restriction? Where are the discipline and self-control? Where is the independence? Most importantly, where are the honesty and integrity? Indeed, where have all the virtues gone? Where are those people whose hearts, minds, spirits, and actions are based on what is noble, exalted, honorable?

Look around you again, not casually but deeply. What are the core values ​​that motivate the masses in America? Get rich sacrificing integrity without ethics? Being famous at all costs, like being famous is something to be proud of? The worship not of lofty ideals but of the passing faces of movie stars, rock stars, sports stars, sex symbols? The struggle for material excess? Is this what we worship in America? Is this the level of substance to which we have gravitated, that is, sunk? Is this what we base our freedom on?

Most people talk about freedom and love their freedom, but are they aware of what it takes to create, sustain and preserve freedom? One of the greatest military generals in history was Douglas MacArthur. About freedom he said: No man is entitled to the blessings of liberty unless he is vigilant in its preservation.. We are all aware of the military might of the United States that serves to protect our liberty from outside invaders and destroyers, but who is on the streets of America’s towns and cities who is truly vigilant in preserving liberty or do you even understand what it takes to preserve freedom on a virtuous level?

The freedom that America manifests, and for which most of the world’s people clamor, was not created by sensual and material indulgence, gratification, greed, and selfish self-interest, those characteristics that saturate and plague America. in its essence today. The freedom that America has enjoyed was created by virtue. Indulgence, gratification, greed, the pursuit of material excess without an ethical basis, and exorbitant self-interest are not virtues. They are clear manifestations of lack of virtue. And since, as Franklin said, Only a virtuous people is capable of freedom, our freedom is being destroyed, not so much by external forces as by our own internal blindness, immorality, impropriety, indulgence, gratification and misaligned priorities. In effect, America is dying because its virtue is dying.

As the great Helen Keller pointed out, Science may have found a cure for most ills, but it has found no remedy for the worst of all: human apathy.. How much apathy is there in America on the subject of virtue? Who cares about virtue? When was the last time you heard a conversation about virtue or someone making decisions to be virtuous? Where is the local virtual school in your community? The sad reality of the United States today is that, in general, people do not care about virtue. If they were, there would be more openness about it, concern for its manifestation in our lives. Sadder is that people make fun of virtue, denigrate it, deplore it, deny it and consider it old-fashioned. However, from the perspective of freedom, nothing could be more fashionable and never will be.

How can America be saved from dying? America can be saved from death if the majority of its people, its leaders, icons, and role models express, discuss, promote, and live lives founded on virtue. Thus he will maintain his freedom and his majesty. Otherwise, she will continue to die at the hands of her own creation, with no one to blame but herself. If America is not mindful to live a virtuous life en masse, her life, her once beautiful, glorious, majestic, noble and divine life, will continue to fade away and end in the ugliest, ignominious, shameful, ignoble and doomed death.

America sweet soul

Ricardo Andres Rey

America! America!
Sweet Soul, lift up your eyes.
Your love for personalities
bearends of his death.

Great men and women who seek the Truth,
looking to quench his thirst,
put principles on pedestals–
not the personalities first.

There was a time when you believed
in Law, where virtue graces;
but now you’re sacrificing everything
For the love of passing faces.

You worship Ease, not Principle.
Accept the base to guide you.
Blinded by your biased greed,
you displace the right with the wrong.

America! America!
Sweet soul, observe your works,
because they are the reflection
of your previous seeds, sown,

seeds that bear fruit
exactly his type.
Oranges cannot be harvested.
after planting linden seeds.

America! America!
Love chaste and pure principles.
Personalities come and go
but the principles endure.

Times will keep changing
with old and new faces.
Success, however, is based on
principles that hold true.

Therefore, watch out America!
Your legacy is in knowing
that the harvest of your future
Hang on to the seeds you are sowing!

Copyright Richard Andrew King
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