Posted by
Jan@Oasis on Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:26:01 PM
Dear Grandpa, Uncle Vern and Uncle Jack,
Just wondering if you are all at peace eternally, or if you are spinning wildly in your graves at the turn your adopted country has taken. I'm guessing the latter.
Now that we are about to possibly elect the first Muslim Communist as president of the United
States of America, I do feel the need to apologize to all my ancestors who chose this country for its magnificent values and for its freedom and opportunities. Our founding fathers brought with them the firm belief that we had God-given rights and that they should fashion a Constitution that acknowledged those rights. The government wasn't supposed to infringe on them, nor was it supposed to MAKE UP "rights" that were never mentioned nor intended. We've come a long way, haven't we? Toward bigger government, secularism, socialism, and now my personal favorite: Marxism redux. As if it worked so splendidly before, all those times. As if millions upon millions of people didn't die at its hands.
When your family came here from Scotland, I bet you were amazed at the bounty of America, even then. Never has there been a MORE free country, with more opportunity and promise. Of course, there were problems. All have been dealt with. Now we've created far worse problems by straying from the conservative principles that made us great. We've let the left become too vocal and too entrenched in the mainstream media. There is no pretense of fairness in the mainstream media, and even Fox News, which claims to be balanced, has to bend way over to give the left its due, simply because if it REALLY got its due, it would be banished to Europe where it belongs.
When you came here, there was a work ethic second to none. You raised a family during the Great Depression, and the worst thing to you would have been having to go "on the dole." When the newspaper for which you were the business manager shut down, you painted houses to support your four children. Now we've imported all sorts of people who disdain our values and want a free lunch courtesy of the American taxpayer. And we have some homegrown varieties of the same. Instead of promoting hard work and ambition, the lefties who've taken over the Democrat party are promoting class envy and laziness. That's Europe, not us. Or at least it used to not be us.
I bet you are spinning over the change in your church too. The Presbyterians have taken leave of their senses, or at least the leadership has. Instead of blessing the Jews, as we were instructed to do by God, they are cursing them and fawning over the Palestinians. There are a number of formerly mainstream Protestant churches who have fallen down similar holes.
As a child I seem to remember there was a bit of animosity among Protestants toward Catholics, until two of your grandchildren married two of them. Everyone mellowed after that. You'd be happy to know that now it may be the Catholics, traditionally mostly Democrat, who will prevent our electing a Muslim Communist, because it turns out he is also a big proponent of infanticide and is unwilling to keep a baby born alive, after a botched abortion, alive! Fancy that! And he lies about it, or tries to, to boot. I know how you'd feel about that.
You know I married a European whose family all still lives in Germany. So I do have a handle on the differences between our societies. And frankly, I have to come down on the side of traditional America. It is rapidly disappearing, but I try to be hopeful we can bring it back, at least in part. Starting with closing the borders to illegal, ungrateful, unhelpful and downright dangerous aliens. Seems like a good place to start to me.
I sure miss you all. You were men among men, not a wimpy metro-sexual among you. You were men who could be counted on in a country that could be counted on, and was--by the whole world at times. Personally, I don't think there has been nearly enough gratitude shown the United States by people whose a--es we saved, but then again we know the left is ungrateful, as all spoiled, immature brats generally are.
So Grandpa, I do apologize for the road the country is on at the moment. I did my best to right it, sticking to my conservative principles and trying to reason with the loony left. I raised three conservative kids and they are raising three, almost four, conservative grandkids. I've discovered in my advancing age, though, that "reason" and "left" do not go together. They are like pancakes with bacon instead of sausage, my mom--your daughter-- would say. Mom was a little rigid on things that went together, but she knew gratitude and happiness did, and she sure recognized ingratitude when she saw it. The left is awash in it, and aren't they just the unhappiest bunch you've ever seen?
Well, we'll try to keep the looming disaster from happening, but I can't promise anything. Unfortunately, my parents' generation (the greatest one, according to Tom Brokaw), while nobly fighting a couple of wars and surviving the Depression, and making the most of what they had, were certainly not the greatest at parenting. They were so happy to be able to offer their kids all the things they never had that they forgot to also TEACH them to be grateful, and independent, and hard-working, and to not expect anything from the government except national defense. I was lucky to be one of the exceptions to that trend, but many of my fellow baby boomers are the best educated yet dumbest, the owners of the most toys but the most ungrateful, the owners of the most material goods but the least blessed with a drop of common sense. They have bought into, among other things, the feminist dogma of the man-haters, the global warming hoax, the PETA psychosis and the "all countries and societies are as good as all other countries and societies" mantra of the far, far, FAR left. I know it's hard to believe how quickly this all happened. I'm kind of glad you aren't here to see what has become of your beloved America, and if you CAN see any of it I sure hope it's filtered somehow. I think MTV alone would have felled Grandma.
You all may have been the LAST great generation. I am eternally grateful to have been your granddaughter. Thank you for being a shining example of the people who came here for all the right reasons. You met my husband before we were married, and I know you will be pleased to see that he also came here for the right reasons. He also came legally, gratefully, and independently. And he is a citizen of this country he fell in love with at eighteen.
Sorry, Grandpa, wish we could have kept the faith a little better, but we aren't giving up. At least not unless the Muslim Communist actually gets elected. Love, Jan