Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   7/22/2014

America—believe not the left

There was far more worth consideration, in my humble opinion, in “America: Imagine the World Without Her,” by Dinesh D’Souza (with John Sullivan directing and Academy Award-winning producer Gerald Molen)), than one column could justifiably contain. The movie could not, after all, contain all that was in D’Souza’s book of the same title, which I intend on finding, buying and reading. The brief synopsis from Fandango.com does a fair job as far as it goes: “(‘America’) takes you on a journey of discovery that will bring you face-to-face with the heroes who built America, in the times in which they lived, bled, and sacrificed in order to build a great nation…and their present day critics (and) their stories in their own words, so you can decide which America you believe in.”

D’Souza states that Barack Obama did not create the anti-American left, it created him. Consider what George Orwell said: “The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their understanding of their own history.” Correspondingly, Mr. D’Souza stated “What I find striking is the highly selective view of history that is routinely taught not only in colleges but also in the public schools. This is a view that trolls through American history, isolates a half-dozen fact, pulls them all together, and passes them off as a narrative of American shame.”

What irks him, and I share the sentiment, is all of the important American history that’s skipped over. “Most of our young people think that is our history, the shame part alone…(that) leaves out huge episodes of America, which is the Industrial Revolution, the spreading of the railroads, the great entrepreneurial and innovation history of America, and the First and Second spiritual awakenings, which transformed the country.”

In “The United States of Amnesia—Many leftists work hard to erase from public memory America’s most positive stories,” writer Lee Habeeb (NationalReview.com, 7/4/14) describes it thus: “Regrettably, the American story is being told in large measure by people who don’t like our country and want to change it by erasing those parts of our history that don’t comport with their view of man’s relation to government—and to God. (They say) If only America were less American, the world would be a better place. If only we toned down the emphasis on the individual, and turned up the emphasis on the collective, America would be a better place. If only our Constitution were a ‘living Constitution,’ less concerned with limiting government’s power…we’d be a better country.” To the contrary, that document “unleashed the God-given potential of a people as no other single document in human history has done.”

One of D’Souza’s interviews with leftist critics was with Bill Ayers, the unapologetic terrorist from the 1960s, who became an advocate for radically transforming our education of young people—in an anti-American, anti-capitalist direction—through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Fund Board. Obama worked with Ayers and helped fund Ayers’ efforts, as meticulously documented by Stanley Kurtz in “Radical-in-Chief.”

“There is a straight line from Bill Ayers the domestic terrorist of the late 1960s, to Ayers the subversive education ‘reformer’ of the 1990s, to Ayers the defiant, bitterly anti-American interviewee of today. There is also, I fear, a straight line from Obama the Marxist-Leninist student of the 1980s, to Obama the ally of Ayers in his subversive educational agenda of the 1990s, to Obama the lawless Radical-in-Chief of today. Ayers, presumably, is no longer violent and Obama, presumably, is no longer a Marxist. But for both, the deep hostility towards America as we have known it remains.” (Paul Mirengoff, Powerlineblog.com, 7/03/14)

At the time of this writing, the prominent news is the flood of illegal immigrants at our southern border. It is the manufactured leftist agenda of one Barack Obama, with minor roles by previous presidents who failed to build a long, strong double fence. However, it is only because of Obama’s reckless abrogation of his duties to “faithfully execute” the laws of this nation that they keep coming with a belief that they will be allowed to stay—a belief created by Obama’s own extralegal pronouncements of amnesty for young illegal aliens.

We have the spectacle of busses being turned away by citizens who have had enough of this kind of “transforming” of America, which has prompted faux outrage by the usual liberal suspects. They’re shocked, shocked that people would object to our government facilitating a literal invasion from other countries and not put the invaders promptly on planes, busses and trains back to their countries of origin. We’ve even been told that the INS, HHS and other alphabet agencies should not be interfered with, that the illegals will be “processed” and treated with “justice” and “fairness.”

News reports say money is being spent on ads in the Central American countries where many of them come from to discourage them from making the hazardous trek north. Excuse me for asking the obvious: Why waste money on ads when the message could get out much faster by simply and immediately “processing” them back to their home countries and letting local media inform everyone that they are wasting money and effort trying to cross our border?

If you don’t think that, as President, Obama is “faithfully executing” an agenda to turn America into a third-world land of low and absent standards, opportunities and freedoms, you’re not paying attention—WAKE UP!