My Church sent a dozen daring souls to St. Petersburg Russia a couple of months ago to help ’plant’ a new church. They worked hard, passed out 10,000 leaflets, had public meetings, and now it seems to be working. Not going myself, I bought a large coffee table type photo book of St. Petersburg, and loaned it around to all of those going, for a couple of weeks before their departure. St Petersburg is full of marvelous buildings, castles, and huge edifices built before the 1917 revolution. Most of Europe is also full of huge castles, palaces, and gorgeous buildings built by slaves at the behest of their masters, who more often than not were of the so called ’nobility.’ This is a reason why America is so wonderful to me.
The Founders decided that there were to be no kings, queens, or nobility. Everyone was to be equal, and have equal opportunities to succeed or fail. Obviously, there have been huge discrepancies, prejudices, and unequal treatments of various people and races. Nothing is perfect, but we have never had a king, queen, or inherited titles, and importing slaves was abolished in 1808. For that we can be glad. Slaveholders sometimes built fine homes, but never did they have anything to remotely compare with the abodes of royalty throughout Europe and Russia. True, many Americans have made a lot of money and become rich. More power to them. They created jobs and prosperity. Newport, the west side of the Hudson River, and America’s largest home in Asheville, North Carolina, amply prove that lots of wealth was created in America. All the mansions in America, as well as the factories, monumental edifices, universities, concert halls, libraries, skyscrapers, and luxury anything, were all built by paid labor, not slaves to a king, queen, or nobility. Even the Vanderbilt house in Asheville, built with paid craftsmen, isn’t a hundredth as large and imposing as say the various palaces occupied by the Queen of England. The British royalty has never done a damned thing to earn its tens of thousands of acres and numerous palaces. The Ruskies probably got tired of the nobility and its riches, while they starved, so the revolution occurred in 1917, which made them worse off than before. I’d take a king to a commie any day!
As tourists travel Europe and Russia, gawking at the architecture and splendor, I wonder if they ever stop and marvel at the fact that we have no king, queen, or nobility? The Brits seem to love their queen and all the folderol which goes with it. They never seem to think about how much all that nonsense costs! We have earmarks and shouldn’t. We have hideously wasteful government, and a gang in D.C. which should be executed forthwith. We are declining, in spite of not having a nobility class. We are being destroyed from within by the D.C. Gang, who refuse to stop the presses, balance the budgets, and become neutral. The D.C. Gang refuses to build authorized fences between Mexico and the U.S. and refuses to bring the troops home. We have our own ’nobility,’ in the form of the military-industrial complex, which Ike warned us about many decades ago. The Brits won’t throw out the Queen, and we won’t throw out the D.C. Gang. The Ruskies threw them out, and their replacement…communism…was ever so much worse. Their nobility is remembered by St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace, and other huge architectural creations; undoubtedly built by slaves. Gloms in tourist bucks I suppose.
Just remember our wonderful Founders, who wanted us to be free from a ruling nobility, including one in Washington D.C. The Founders wanted us to be free from foreign entanglements, as George Washington warned us about in his farewell speech. We did pay attention for a long time. Unfortunately, a President (McKinley), thought that God told him the Philippines and Cuba needed to belong to America, and he sent the Great White Fleet around the world to prove how great was America. That was over a hundred years ago, and we have had no long term peace since. Now, we have troops and bases in 127 spots around the world, are bankrupt and are arousing the animosity of everyone, As if that wern’t bad enough, we have a President with an IQ of room temperature. We had a President (FDR) who began the welfare system, and we have watched our citizen mentality and responsibility decline ever since. We had a President (JFK) who wanted to bring troops home, go back to a gold standard and abolish a good deal of bureaucracy. He was assassinated.
Our earliest Presidents, such as Jefferson, Washington, and Adams were outstanding, and their successors gradually went down in their determination to follow our Constitution. Now look what we have! Any way to stop this degradation? Could a Ron Paul live long enough to do it, if he were elected? George Wallace was shot while he was winning, Goldwater was assassinated by the Media, and Perot mysteriously quit while he was winning, came back, but had ruined his chances. At least Perot lives. We need to restore our Republic. Historically, it can’t happen, because it never has. Maybe all we can do is protect ourselves? How sad.