There was a time when the United States was simply one nation. We were just Americans. One for all, all for one. One nation under God. No matter where their country of origin, once the immigrants arrived on our shores they became "Americans." Yes, because we are human, we have been tainted by racism and religious bigotry, but overall, our country has achieved greatness because of our cohesion.
Sadly, that cohesion has deteriorated, and the impetus for its destruction has been the growth of the Federal welfare state. It started in the 1930's with Social Security and unemployment insurance. It accelerated in the 1960's with President Johnson's Great Society, which gave us Medicare, Medicaid, Aid to Dependent Children. Today the government will pay for your college, your rent, your kid's school lunch, birth control, abortions, gender reassignment and a host of other services.
What the government has done in essence is given the American people a proclamation: We have billions of dollars to give away. Whichever group shouts, screams, yells and hollers the loudest and longest will get the most money. That's when we began to multiply and divide, as various groups fought one another to receive the handouts. This dicing and slicing of the population received a title.PRESSURE GROUP WARFARE.
No longer are we one people. Now it is whites vs. blacks. vs. Hispanics vs, students vs. seniors vs. straights vs. LGBT vs. union members vs. non-union members vs.handicapped, ad nauseum. The government has pitted citizen against citizen, each group crying out, "Our group deserves it more than your group! Screw you! Give us the money!"
The Civil War split this country into two. Pressure group warfare has split us into an infinite number of pieces, and like Humpty Dumpty, those pieces may not be able to be put back together again.
The government has bought the soul of America. It is time for us to refund the money and regain the spirit that brought us greatness.
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