American Wisdom: "Fool me once..."

We are sensing that good things are happening out there—powerful shifts in thinking that will turn the country around sooner than many would believe possible. Why? Because the Founders put down a marker for all humanity and for all time when the US government was established by ‘we the people’ around the core principle of individual freedom and responsibility under God.

We the people are called “Americans”, but the open secret is that the term “American” is not a matter of race, ethnicity, gender, class, or religious affiliation—the term is better understood as a spiritual concept. It refers to those who love and honor the spirit of human freedom, but with a sense of moral responsibility that flows from the fact that we are, as Winston Churchill said, “spirits, not animals”. In reality, we’re all Americans at birth. As we age, some get a little confused for various reasons under various circumstances, but we eventually come back to our native identity (that’s a subject for a later essay).

For now, we the people are waking up to the fact that we have a government that is completely out of touch with Americans, and even worse, takes us for fools. Americans may be temporarily fooled (as in the 2008 election), but they are not fools. They know when American values are being upheld, and they know when they are not.

The fact that Obama is incalculably far over his head is now obvious to every serious person, regardless of their political affiliation. He was and is a fraud, and he’s not fooling anyone anymore.

The fact that the US Treasury Department remains almost completely unstaffed at the senior levels makes it obvious that there are no serious people with confidence in the philosophy or governing direction of this administration. Extremely critical analysis, expertise and decision-making skills are wholly absent, while the world and national economy flails away trying to find which way is up. Americans are not fooled by any White House spin telling us that ‘the indispensable man’ Timothy Geithner has everything under control.

The fact that the AIG bonus plan was known in great detail by the entire government before passage of bailout legislation makes it obvious to every serious person that claims of surprise and shock and stunned disbelief are nothing but the most cynical and shameless of lies for the sake of political grandstanding. They think we the people are fools and don’t see this. But we do, and we’re mad as hell.

The prevailing ‘commentariat’ says that we’re now helpless pawns who have elected this mess upon ourselves, and there’s nothing we can do but watch our masters in government and hope they luck into doing something that will prevent overwhelming calamity from engulfing us.

Well, Brushfires doesn’t take such a helpless view. We believe in the Founders’ vision, and we believe in Americans. We trust freedom. We believe that we the people still know honesty from dishonesty; we know the difference between responsibility and irresponsibility; we know what playing by the rules means and doesn’t mean; we damn well know what constitutes common sense and basic wisdom in the management of financial resources and budgets. And so we think solutions to every problem exist when we follow what we believe in. Doesn’t matter how bleak any situation may look, the groundwork for finding the answer has already been done by the Founders.

When we’re told and sold every day about inevitable Depression unless we let our masters violate everything we believe in, we are no longer buying, listening or following. We’re in the process of taking back this government.

Just what this process is going to entail at each step between now and when the government is restored to ‘we the people’, we can’t specify. We predict only that it will be unprecedented in American history. Soros and Axelrod and Emanuel and Reid and Pelosi have completely underestimated the strength, integrity and faith of Americans. They thought they had masterminded the perfect Constitutional coup d’etat, and the people would just sit back and take it. But they’re incapable of correctly calibrating and combating a power they cannot see and do not know. Living in a leftist media bubble they have confused with reality, they have no idea how radically and powerfully the tide is shifting against them.

The tea parties coming on April 15 are going to be bigger, louder and more powerful than anything our masters have ever seen. Not even the bubble media will be able to avoid them. And they will spawn a proliferation of citizen resistance and activism that has never been seen by any living politician. It won’t be pacified by a few sops thrown in their direction. We think it won’t stop until Obama has resigned (and maybe others); it may not stop for at least the next two election cycles.

And for what it’s worth, and we think it’s worth a lot, we believe Americans will figure out a way to undo even the economic damage. Nothing is permanent, including Depression; and nothing is impossible, including complete recovery.

Historians will find this one of the most fascinating chapters in all of human history. When they finally sort it out, we hope they will understand that resolution sprang from the fact that the American ideal of individual freedom and responsibility under God is not a passing human concept but is grounded in an eternal truth. That’s why it could not be defeated by a temporal fraud.

Ronald Reagan once reminded the elitists in Washington that ‘we are a people with a government, not the other way around’. The leftists now nominally in control of government don’t understand Reagan’s simple point, but we think they are about to get a life-changing lesson.

Paul Gable

Posted March 23, 2009