WHY AMERICA IS
IN GENERATIONAL DEMISE
By JB
Williams
PatriotsUnion.org
Since
Nixon’s Watergate era in the 70s, public trust in
our Federal government has been below 50%, more than
40 years of a government most Americans do not like
or trust. Only once since, in the fall of 2001, post
911, when G.W. Bush stood in the ashes of ground
zero NYC and called the nation to arms following the
September 11, 2001 terror attacks, did the people
place more than 50% faith in our federal government…
(Public
Trust Data)
Today, the
Oval Office is supported by less than 30% of the
voting population and Congress is even less popular.
The vast majority of Americans, more than 70%,
believe the country is not only headed in the wrong
direction, but is in a rapid steady decline and
maybe on the brink of total collapse.
Making
matters worse, a shrinking minority of Americans
trust the press to keep them informed, and an even
smaller minority believe that the U.S. Justice
system is in the business of delivering any form of
real justice. (No
News is Good News)
In short,
there is nothing about the current state of our
nation that the majority of Americans like or trust.
They don’t trust law-makers, the chief executive,
the courts, law enforcement, national security
agencies or the press… and now, they fear their own
military, as rumors of Martial Law or an
international joint military coup called JADE HELM,
flood the blogosphere.
So, why
aren’t the people doing anything about any of it?
At the end
of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, anxious
citizens gathered outside Independence Hall where
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin,
“Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a
monarchy?” Without hesitation, Franklin responded,
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
Indeed, as
time passed, the greatest challenge for the American
people would become their ability to protect, defend
and uphold the Constitutional Representative
Republic their Founders had created and millions of
Americans before them had fought and sacrificed to
preserve. (Republic
vs. Democracy)
228 years
after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, less
than ten generations later, Americans would find
themselves essentially at war with their own
government, for sake of national and state
sovereignty, security, independence, liberty and
freedom. The ability of the American people to keep
what the Founders had provided is now in great
question.
Millions
of Americans stand openly opposed to nearly
everything happening in Washington D.C. today, and
although millions are awake and engaged in trying to
live up to Franklin’s challenge, they appear
incapable of doing so… the question is, why?
Proper
diagnosis, before the right cure…
In a
recent meeting with fellow investigators and
analyst’s, we discussed trends in the people’s
opposition in an effort to properly identify the
causes behind, what for all practical purposes, is a
stagnate resistance appearing to have little if any
effect on the direction of a nation supposed to be
controlled of, by and for the American people.
In trying
to properly diagnose the problems at the root of
America’s continued decline, a parallel was drawn
between to the generational loss of individual
wealth and the loss of individual freedom and
liberty. The common denominators were staggering…
Generational Loss
To
understand the generational loss of our Republican
form of self-governance, personal freedoms,
individual liberties and the apparent impotence of
the American people to right the ship, we looked
closely at the reasons for generational loss of
wealth and prosperity… in so doing, we recognized
that the root cause for these losses were in fact
identical.
In a piece
written by Tim Voorhees, JD, MBA, he explains the
phenomenon often referred to as
affluenza… the generational transition from affluence to poverty
which has been well documented for centuries and
happens with 100% accuracy within four generations
or less. (The
Voorhees piece)
In short,
Voorhees explains – “An inheritance quickly gained
at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.”
Heirs given money typically have a strong
inclination toward spending the money on
possessions, pleasures, or other purposes without
lasting significance. Psychologists specializing in
“sudden wealth syndrome” acknowledge that heirs,
like lottery winners, tend to blow their windfall.
Just as
generations always eventually squander the wealth
created by their predecessors, so would the American
people squander the freedom and liberties
established and paid for by their predecessors. The
reasons for this phenomenon are the same…
“When
heirs receive money without prior coaching on the
purpose of money, they will seldom take the time to
understand the values that helped accumulate the
value of the inheritance. Inheritors do not
understand the blood, sweat and tears invested in
accumulating the wealth. Nor do heirs with money
have much motivation to develop the bias toward
diligence, delayed gratification, thrift, and other
values needed to maintain healthy relationships with
people who contribute to wealth accumulation.” (Voorhees)
In another
related piece on the subject, Jesse O’Neil, author
of The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology of Affluence,
documents how money transferred to heirs without a
meaningful purpose often fosters “Affluenza.” O’Neil
explains – “Heirs may lack the purposeful pursuits
needed to cultivate self-esteem, self-worth,
motivation, self-confidence, and personal identity.
Moreover, the vacuum created by the lack of a
healthy purpose leads to negative character
qualities, such as the inability to delay
gratification, unwillingness to tolerate
frustration, feelings of failure, and a false sense
of entitlement. As problems grow worse, heirs
withdraw from others, avoid accountability, and
develop progressively more serious social disorders.
The presence of money catalyzes personality
disorders. These disorders limit the ability to form
vital relationships with other people and leave
victims unable to find a comforting sense of
purpose.”
Consider
the following facts
·
80%
of all new businesses fail within the first three
years of operation
·
Of
the 20% that initially succeed, another 60% fail in
the second generation of operation
·
And
by the third generation of operations, only 1% will
survive
Now
consider that the United States is in its 10th
generation since the adoption of the U.S.
Constitution forming a Republic of, by and for the
people, who like the next generations of business
owners, no longer know what it takes or have what it
takes to succeed…
The
reasons are the same…
·
Heirs may lack the purposeful pursuits needed to
cultivate self-esteem, self-worth, motivation,
self-confidence, and personal identity.
·
Moreover, the vacuum created by the lack of a
healthy purpose leads to negative character
qualities, such as the inability to delay
gratification, unwillingness to tolerate
frustration, feelings of failure, and a false sense
of entitlement.
·
As
problems grow worse, heirs withdraw from others,
avoid accountability, and develop progressively more
serious social disorders.
·
The
presence of money catalyzes personality disorders.
·
These disorders limit the ability to form vital
relationships with other people and leave victims
unable to find a comforting sense of purpose.
Similarly,
individuals born into freedom have a very different
understanding and sense of worth and value regarding
freedom and liberty, than those who had to sacrifice
to achieve it for themselves and their posterity.
Not only are their values very different, so is
their knowledge and intellectual capacity to grasp
the foundations of success, along with the basic
will required to succeed.
Failure is
inevitable?
History
would seem to indicate that failure is inevitable,
whether discussing the accumulation and preservation
of generational wealth, or generational freedom and
liberty. Yet the ability for the human spirit to
alter history and upset all odds remains part of the
human condition.
To be
certain, global assaults on all things American have
existed and persisted since our Founding. Tyrants
opposed to personal freedom and liberty, both here
and abroad, have set their sights on destroying our
Constitutional Republic since its creation.
But before
America would be ripe for the taking, American
society had to be prepared for seismic changes
totally at odds with everything they had ever known.
The Foundations of freedom and liberty had to be
removed from public discourse and the people had to
be properly conditioned for such massive reversals
of great fortune.
The first,
second and even third generation Americans would
never accept such changes as we see everywhere
today. Even the “greatest generation,” the WWI and
WWII generations, would never have accepted what is
going on in America, had they known.
However,
by the tenth generation, few would even remember
what America is supposed to be. It’s now common to
see people debate the “true meaning” of the most
basic and simple English words and terms, as if a
Constitutional scholar or Common Law lawyer is need
to correctly determine what the true meaning of “is”
is…
Just like
third generation business operators that unwittingly
kill the goose that laid the family golden egg,
tenth generation Americans see their inheritance
(freedom and liberty) in rapid decline, but they
struggle to understand how or why, or what if
anything, can be done about it. Further, they lack
the will and backbone necessary to the success of
any significant endeavor.
At this
moment, America is ripe for the taking…. But does it
have to be?
To every problem, there is a solution. To find that solution, first properly identify the problem…
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