The Greatest Country

I received (and forwarded) two emails this week that generated a good deal of discussion amongst my friends and acquaintances. The first one contained a Kitty Werthmann article, entitled “America Truly Is The Greatest Country In The World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away.” In it, the author gives an eyewitness account of growing up in Austria and what happened when the Austrians voted to be annexed by Germany and have Adolph Hitler as their ruler. This was in 1938, and Austria was in a deep recession. They were led to believe that Germany and Hitler would solve all of their problems and everyone would be happy. Of course, we know today how that turned out, but what makes Kitty Werthmann’s story so compelling is that she lived through it, and she uses that experience to draw parallels to the current situation in America.

Naturally, my friends on the Left took exception to such comparisons, drawing the not unreasonable inference that the article essentially paints Barrack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress as Hitler and the Nazis. I countered that it was less a comparison than a warning about the socialization of America, and the grand “changing” of America that the Left is working so fervently to institute.

Then a second email hit my Inbox, and it sort of complemented the first. Called “The Fundamental Transformation of America,” it was an unattributed compilation of all of the warning signs that we had received in regard to Barrack Obama, and how we pretty much ignored them. (It should be stated here that by “we,” I mean those who voted for “change” in the first place; not everyone was seduced by Obama’s promises.)

By the way, I did find out that the author of this piece is a fellow named Matt Bruce, a Vietnam veteran, retired firefighter and host of “The Captain’s AMERICA” Radio Show. Here’s a link to his website, which I found while trying to authenticate the authorship of the email: http://thecaptainsamerica.com/ Well done, sir, and thank you for your service to America.

Both emails were a variation on the same theme, a warning that we should be vigilant and hold tight to our values lest we endanger them or lose them altogether. I’ll sign off by saying that, while I think the current POTUS is an abomination, the larger danger to our republic is the fact that we have in place an electorate that would elect such a man in the first place. It’s not as if we were entirely ignorant of the facts; no, I tend to think that a conscious decision was made, by many, to simply ignore the facts.

I’ve found links to the essential content of the emails. You can decide for yourself what to think of them. (Note: I do not read or endorse these websites or their content in general; they were simply the most convenient links available.)

http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/1938-austria-land-of-the

http://www.redcounty.com/fundamental-transformation-america