What has Become of America

Nothing says America like the First Amendment, mom, apple pie and baseball. Under the guise of a pandemic, today’s secular progressives are fundamentally transforming our nation into an ugly and dare I say despotic place. They have shut down our business and closed our churches. They have punished shop keepers and moms who let their kids play outside. You can’t lay in the sun on the beach or plant a crop. And many of our fellow countrymen must wear face coverings. So, let’s take stock of where we are in this post-pandemic America: you are forbidden to physically attend church services,... you can’t hug your mom,... you can’t eat a slice of apple pie in a local eatery... and you can’t play baseball,.. This is not my America. It doesn’t sound like America. If not your America, then who’s America is it? What has become of America? Is America becoming Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World?

In the world of 1984, Big Brother is always watching, whether it’s his face on huge posters plastered on walls or the omnipresent telescreens or what Kenneth Burke labels terministic screens that force you to not only act, but also think, in compliance with the powers to be. One could argue that Orwell’s telescreens are alive and well in 2020, taking the form of our smartphones/smart devices. There are very few places one can go where there isn’t a voice and data communication zone nearby, and often, that device is our very own. Our communication devices control us. Social media enslaves us. Through the endless blitz of images that promote slogans like “Our best day’s lie ahead”... “A fresh start for America”...  “We rise,” social media and the devices we use to access them become the ever-monitoring eye, a gaze so omnipresent and omnipotent that we end up feeling like we must govern ourselves. The only difference between the panopticon-like governance of 2020 and 1984 is that the telescreens exist to govern because of an authoritarian government, whereas our smart devices exist to govern us today only because we allow them to.

The rhetoric of fear and hate and the medium mode that today’s socialist leaning progressive party leadership peddles is undeniable. If the progressive left were to gain total control of America’s direction, there is no end in sight to the destruction they would perpetuate on her citizenry’s rights as delineated the United States Constitution. For our sake, let us pray and hope George Orwell was right, and a civilization founded on fear and hate never sees the light of day. That being said, lets go back to hugging mom, eating apple pie, playing baseball with fans in the stands, earning a living and lastly, opening Houses of Worship to those who choose to sit in church pews