Is America Becoming an Idiocracy?

via:GodFather Politics

When watching Obama's State of the Union show, with his laundry list of Nanny-State proposals and usurpation of our God-given rights, remember that nothing of this world lasts forever. That includes nations. 

The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans; none stood the test of time.
In 1787, a crowd gathered outside the hall where the Constitutional convention was held in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. As the doors were opened and the delegates began to emerge, a woman identified only as Mrs. Powell of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" 

Franklin is said to have answered, “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
The more I learn of the founders of our nation, the more convinced I am that they were and are still the greatest collection of minds to walk this earth.
Franklin knew, as did the other founders, a republic, like children, must be nurtured and given constant attention, lest it stray down the wrong path.
The founders charged the citizens of this country actively to pursue righteousness in our elected officials and to remain alert to the activities at every level of government.
With each passing decade, we have become forgetful and complacent. The average American today knows little to nothing of our own founding or the original intent of our government, or what those people endured to allow us the opportunity to rule ourselves.

Yet over time we have willingly squandered that opportunity to instead choose to be ruled by those who should serve us.
Some would say that the citizenry is just too busy to be bothered by such things. As our society has "evolved" and "progressed," it is said that things have just become too complicated and the founders could not have foreseen the problems of today.
Woodrow Wilson said just that as he advocated for a "Living Constitution." Is that not why we have elected officials? We send the politicians (the smart people) off to fight on our behalf and deal with the bedeviling issues of our time, so we may get back to whatever seems to be more important. As long as our lives don’t measurably change, all is evidently well.
All, unfortunately, isn't well. We are teetering on the precipice of tyranny and most don’t even realize it or care. It seems a growing majority of this country believes the government was formed to take care of us -- to be our security blanket.

Again, Franklin had an answer for that when he exclaimed, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

Sam Adams stated, "The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men."  

They knew that throughout every society, since the beginning of time, one overriding thing has not and will never change -- human nature. No matter how evolved and sophisticated we think we've become, it can always be boiled down to that one thing.
Every great society eventually becomes decadent and intellectually lazy; it's human nature, and America is not exempt from this tendency.
I am reminded of a movie from years ago called Idiocracy, where mankind has not evolved, but devolved into a collection of morons concerned and consumed only with the worst inclinations of society.

Look around you. Watch some “man on the street” interviews. The latest one asks questions about Martin Luther King, Jr. Some people believed that he had just died (He was assassinated on April 4, 1968.) Another person believed he walked on the moon.  Everywhere is the pursuit of self-gratification and nothing more. The average American is more likely to know the judges on American Idol than a single Supreme Court justice.
As in Idiocracy,” we glorify sex, violence, and fame.
Our lives are broadcast to the world via Facebook, You Tube, and Twitter. Why? Because it seems everyone wishes just to be famous and, of course, people are idolized for just being famous.

Nowhere is the violence in our society more evident than the rise of the gladiator culture via the explosive popularity of Mixed Martial Arts competitions. They enter, not just a ring, but a cage, beat that heck out each other, for fame and our amusement. The only things missing are weapons and lions. Give them time. I understand that combatants have been killed during these fights. They have not been allowed to televise them -- yet. Again, give it time.
Why do we care about people like the bubble-head Kim Kardashian? Because she is attractive? No, not just because she is attractive, but also due to her sexual persona. She is famous for being famous, yet by all accounts she's never done a worthwhile thing. And for that she is celebrated and enriched.
Watch your TV or listen to your radio. It seems the commercials are either about promoting government or sex. Male enhancement drugs, female sensitivity formulas -- Viagra, Cialas, and of course, advice from the government on how to properly order our lives. Is this what we’re most concerned with?

Will it be okay to hand over our republic to tyrants as long as they allow us watch UFC and have lots of sex? You can take away our gun rights, but don’t cancel “Dancing with American X Factor Idol Stars that think they have Talent”.
Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, said: "Without morals, a republic cannot subsist any length of time."