Dishonorable trash, masquerading as our Countrymen
During my lifetime, classic virtues such as rugged individualism, honesty, bravery, skill-at-arms, mental toughness, productivity, and what Finns call “Sisu” (audacity, resilience) were honorable traits, for both men and women.
As amazing Americans, we were expected to strive after them, no matter our starting-point, audaciously carrying-on the example set for us by our nation’s gallant Founders
What we see today is that “virtuousness” is now ascribed only to the mentally fragile, confused, helpless, unstable, lazy, sleazy, “damaged,” willfully unproductive, who have convinced themselves that they just cannot deal uprightly with the demands of life.
This is our new “model,” what we’re apparently supposed to “take pride” in, at least according to modern American Marxists (masquerading as “Democrats”)
Our gritty Founders endured a grim period of this continent’s history, and their heroic struggle greatly influenced the way our Constitution, and our first Ten Amendments, were written.
Prior to the Revolution, raiding parties of French (with their Indian allies) wreaked havoc on settlers during the French-and-Indian-Wars. Subsequently, during the American Revolution, British (with their Indian allies) repeated identical hideous cruelties upon newly-independent Americans.
Sole ownership of, and immediate access to, fighting arms quickly emerged as the key to individual and family survival.
Established British (later Colonial) military garrisons were utterly unable to, and not particularly interested in, protecting settlers.
When the struggling Continental Congress finally did raise a local militia, it was immediately “absorbed” into the Continental Army, and promptly deployed elsewhere!
Violent British Tories (much like violent leftists today), along with their Indians allies, knew this well and continued to prey heavily upon American settlers. This meant that every individual American (men and women) had to have military arms in his and her immediate possession, combined with the willingness and icy determination to act quickly and unilaterally in the defense of their families, and neighbors.
Since Revolutionary times, American history has been impacted on multiple occasions by similar conditions. Cold, hard reality was ever just a breath away! The prepared and audacious sometimes prevailed, survived, and prospered. The self-pitying, willfully unprepared, excuse-making, and “victim-oriented” never had a chance.
They still don’t!
“Without its tough spearmen, Hellenic culture would have had nothing to give the world, because it would not have lasted long enough. When Greek culture became so sophisticated that its common men would no longer fight to the death, as their fathers had at Thermopylae, but became devious and ‘clever,’ a horde of Roman farm boys overran them.”
TR Fehrenbach
/John
