Through decades of “pretended” border control we have been welcoming hundreds, thousands, millions of new arrivals into our country and onto our free public service programs. 

Americans have turned a virtual blind eye to what has been happening, making inadequate demands upon our government, which should have been protecting the interests of our citizens. Possibly we have been too focused on our own productive lives, educating ourselves, earning a living and enjoying the rewards of freedom, self-determination and self-sufficiency.

Meanwhile we have become victims of our own tolerance and compassion for the needy and downtrodden while tolerating the lazy, demanding and selfishly dependent. We have within our system an ever expanding, unscrupulous welfare society. Populations of care facilities and penal institutions are exploding. The competitive spirit of the free-enterprise system under which our citizens and legal immigrants had thrived, has become stressed and over-burdened. 

Unique to our American form of government, citizens benefitted from independence, opportunity and motivation for personal achievement and prosperity. Unfortunately we allowed significant changes in essential governmental regulation of business and industry, which had protected against capitalistic excesses of power and monetary gain. This has gradually led to imbalance of wealth at top levels draining the resources of the productive middle class and property owners, and forcing them increasingly into lower income levels and federal dependency.

The welfare class, Indian reservations, and masses of illegal immigrants have been milking the social system until citizens are now awakening to the fact that our proud experiment in government of, by and for the people, has evolved into a socialistic ruling class functioning with top-down control. 

The three branches of government provided by the Constitution to assure essential checks and balances for the republic have eroded into a powerful ruling bureaucracy of federal agencies. Their rules and regulations, claiming authority of “law,” operate rampantly and uninhibited under direction of the executor, unaccountable to the voters. 

Redistribution of wealth will be condescendingly and selectively performed by those who have risen to the top, in position to own and manage our country’s land, water, resources and wealth. This new ruling class intends to determine what and how much each “deserving” recipient shall receive.

While we have scoffed at, giggled and denied the existence and strategies of Agenda 21, our increasingly dependent populations, have continued to seek ever more federal funding, grants and social services. Our freedoms and independence have largely been bought out using our own tax dollars and financial credit. 

However, there is still hope as long as our Constitution, its principles and philosophies exist and are honored by our “elected” officials, and if we manage to retain our private property. Unless we awaken and wisely elect principled, informed leaders capable and determined to redirect the course of our government, we will find that America, land of the formerly free, has joined the socialistic countries of the world and history. 

Hello subjugation and conformity to globalism under the United Nations.

Ryan is a resident of Bigfork.