The Great Divide:
Morality in America
by John Galt
November 2004
Part 2 - That Which Divides
In the initial installment of this essay I opined that there is cultural divide in our country that is greater than at any time since the Civil War. Actually there are those that say we are in a Civil War, a cultural Civil War. A Great Divide.
Why? There are a number of reasons. The basic one that all others stem from is we are struggling for the cultural soul of our country. Charlton Heston gave a speech at the Harvard Law School Forum titled Winning The Cultural War. It is a very straight forward document on what we are facing in our society today. (Another version of the speech is here ==> Brandeis Univ. Speech)
Do we want to be one nation under God as the founding fathers established it? Or do we want to be one nation under man with our religion being Liberalism? Do we want to be free to live our lives in the pursuit of happiness? Or do we want to relinquish our freedoms to live under government entitlements in order to "feel" secure? Alexis de Tocqueville said, "Americans are so enamored with equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
A government of the people, by the people and for the people. A concept born some 224 years ago that built the most powerful, wealthiest and most benevolent nation on earth is under assault by the left: that is Liberalism! The Democrat Party has gone so far to the left that it is no longer recognizable as a democratic political party. It continues to drag the country toward the abyss of Socialism. Their view of the world is that of the utopia wherein the people all live at the same level of misery while the elite few govern from on high.
Take a look at the Democratic Party of today. It is not a party united, it is a party of factions joined together because none of them have enough of a following to make it on their own. The second thing you will notice is that each of these factions is one of the issues that has created The Great Divide:
- The Socialists
- The Abortionists
- The Homosexuals
- The Feminists
- The Gun Control Advocates
- The Environmentalists
- The Media and Entertainment Industry
- The Black Community (Civil Rights "Leaders")
- Liberalism and the Postmodern Era
It may appear at first that some of these overlap but that is only because they support and defend each other to maintain their alliance. Each is a separate entity with their own agenda and "to hell" with everyone else unless it is politically expedient to suck-up to each other. There is one common thread that unites them... they all think they are intellectually superior to the "common" man, and that they, in their infinite wisdom, are the only ones fit to manage the affairs of state. It is they that call us "Joe Six-pack" and that we live in "fly-over" country.
What you don't see is the small elitists group that is socialistic in nature and uses the above entities to further their cause. They are the ones against whom we are waging the cultural war.(See Heston Speech #2 ).
The one exception may be the black community. They have been duped by the democrats (and their own so called Black Leaders) and are used as fodder when all else fails. But there is cause for hope here, the Black community has made steady gains since the Republican's passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They are upwardly mobile and they are moving into the middle class and upper class. I don't think they will be fooled much longer.
In contrast the Republicans are united in their beliefs. They believe in the value of the individual, that we are a nation of laws under God and that the Constitution means what it says. That we the people have the right to be free of government intervention at every level our lives and that the government is a tool of the people not the other way around. In the next installments I will discuss each of the factions that are attempting to destroy our heritage, culture and our future.