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America, We Need to Talk!
Yes, America, you and me, we need to talk:
Do you want to be slave, or do you want to be Free?
That’s the question: Do you need to be Free,
As time exchanges blunt realities.
America, you and me, we need to talk:
Freedom is about personal choices, dreams and goals,
But today, we are starved for such Life, Liberty,
And the drive to pursue happiness: slavery.
America, you and me, we need to talk:
Leadership that chooses, with friendly masks,
To enslave by lethargy the weak among us,
With pretty words and outstretched hands: slavery.
America, you and me, we need to talk:
We used to know, and usually did, the right thing,
The noble thing, the virtuous thing, the neighborly thing,
Now, it is the pampered, arrogant, and selfish thing that thrives: slavery.
America, you and me, we need to talk:
I hear you say, through the veil of myriad sleep juice,
“Look at me now, dressed up so gangsta tough!”
But your heart is rotting within you, my love: slavery.
America, you and me, we need to talk:
So much corruption and so little honor,
So much manufactured contention and so little real caring,
So much competition and so little family: slavery.
America, you and me, we need to talk:
You plus me is supposed to equal we-the-people free,
It’s a musical equation most of us still know:
“O’re the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”
America, you and me, we need to talk:
Old Glory still waves gracefully from coast to coast,
Over this land of immeasurable blessing,
No longer quite free, but I see pockets of COURAGE rising!
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Hello BBB, Hope You’re Well. ..Very Good Text ! God Bless !
Thank you, my friend! All is well with my soul! How are you & yours getting along? Well?
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Thought-provoking. Reminds me of what C.S. Lewis says in Screwtape Letters (paraphrasing here): About how we should define “democratic behavior” – because there is a difference between the behavior a democracy LIKES and the behavor that will PRESERVE a democracy.
Exactly, Stephanie! Like we used to teach our kids, there are mamy things we must do because it’s good for us even though it isn’t fun or comfortable. Pap tests spring to mind or dental exams! lol But smart, responsible adults take care of things!
Unfortunately I think we are too far gone. Once people get used to getting things for “free’ from the government individual responsibility dies.
I agree, but I can’t help hoping there is still a chance … It only took a handful of strong, motivated thinkers the first time …not a majority, yet they accomplished the miraculous. But they also acknowledged their need for Divine guidance …clearly, God (by whatever name) has been driven from our land by our words & our deeds. That is significant!