(OPINION) Michael Snyder – If only George Orwell could see what we have become. Today I am writing this article in the midst of a deep state of sadness. I have to admit, I haven’t been this sad in a very long time.
In fact, I don’t even know if I am going to be able to complete this article. What they are doing to this country that I love is really starting to get to me emotionally. America is supposed to be a beacon of liberty and freedom for the entire world, but now we are on the cutting edge of the global trend toward authoritarianism. I know that a lot of people have been leaving the United States in recent years in an attempt to escape the madness, but at this point, we see authoritarianism on the rise just about everywhere.
Just look at New Zealand. Just look at Australia. Just look at the Philippines. At one-time people were fleeing to those countries, but now they have become some of the most authoritarian regimes of all. I feel so frustrated because I feel like I have been banging my head against a brick wall.
Over the past decade, I have written countless articles warning that we were losing our liberties and our freedoms, and very large numbers of people all over the globe read those articles. But did they do any good? Here are just a few examples of what I am talking about…
–“Thoughts On The ‘New Normal’ And The Things That We Are Losing As A Society…”
–“Without Freedom Of Speech, What Is Going To Happen To America?”
–“Less Government. More Freedom.”
–“12 Signs That Americans Who Love Liberty And Freedom Should Watch Their Backs”
I warned that this day was coming, and now it is here. For a while, they were content to whittle away our liberties and freedoms on the periphery, but now we are facing a full-fledged frontal assault on our most basic liberties and freedoms. And what makes it even more frightening is the fact that millions of completely brain-washed Americans are cheering them on as they do it.
If our founders could see us today, they would be absolutely horrified at what we have become. Because I am often so critical of what has happened to us, a lot of people out there assume that I must hate this country. But of course, that is not true at all. I deeply love America. I deeply love our history, I deeply love our traditions, and I deeply love the values that this nation is supposed to represent.
That is why it deeply grieves me that these things are now being ripped away from us. We are the generation that is witnessing the end of America. For whatever period of time the political entity known as “the United States” is allowed to continue, it won’t be “America” anymore. Sure, the U.S. Constitution will still be on public display somewhere, and the politicians will still pay lip service to it. But for all practical purposes, the dream of what “America” was supposed to be will be dead. READ MORE
