Freedom Now Requires A New American Dream ⋆ Politicrossing
Connect with us

News

Freedom Now Requires A New American Dream

Published

on

I am not a perfect human being. In my younger life I told lies, committed foolish acts of teenage rebellion, drank too much, chased girls, and wasted lots of money. But, in the grand overview, previous personal shortcomings aside, I have always been a good citizen. In 1995, when I graduated from high school, I joined the military to serve my country. I had heard stories of my grandfather, a B-17 Bomber pilot in World War II. The military of 1995 had changed since the second World War. In 1995, we were at peace, there were no Nazi’s to hunt, no Normandy beaches to storm, and no Iwo Jima’s. Nevertheless, I wanted to emulate an ideal I had in my mind of how so many men of the “Greatest Generation” lived their lives, served their nation, and raised their families.

After the war, he built a small business, purchased a modest home, and started a family. Without a college education, many men of the Greatest Generation and the one after were able to retire comfortably. The homes they purchased increased modestly in value, the economy, not immune from difficulties, expanded and grew continually from the end of the second World War until the financial meltdown of 2008. In short, if you were an adult between 1945 and 2007, and you were a good citizen, worked hard, and played by the rules, you could count on a pretty decent life for yourself and possibly much more. Be good, work hard, pay your taxes. Bonus points if you served your country. These were the rules. If you followed them, you could expect to be rewarded. This was the American Dream…then.

This was the assumption I was operating under in 2006 when, at 29, I purchased a brand new home in a new master planned community outside of Phoenix, Arizona for $180,000. Like many people in those days, I was ignorant of the economic warning signs and the “housing bubble” that was about to burst. I was making good money at the time and so was my soon to be wife. At 29, I was invincible, so I financed a new car too. Growing up, I had watched my parents and my friends’ parents do it this way… new cars in the driveway of a 3 bedroom ranch home. This was “The American Dream.” I was entitled to it! Little did I know, that the American dream was over and it is never coming back.

Trending on PolitiCrossing.com: Leftist Lunatics are Running the Asylum

Some 18 months later, I learned the hard way that I am not entitled to anything. My $180,000 home was valued at just $54,000 dollars. We were the last people living on our street. Every other house on our side of the street was empty, with a “Bank Owned For Sale” sign out front. Across the street, were half built homes in various stages, abandoned by construction crews and contractors. One weekend, a group of about 30 Mexicans spent the weekend in the empty house next door. They were kind and friendly. It occurred to be that they had used it as a drop house. A few weeks later, vandals began breaking into the empty homes on our street to steal appliances, copper wire, bathroom fixtures, whatever they could get their hands on. My wife and I had both lost our jobs, and we had a baby on the way. Fortunately, I was able to get another job. Unfortunately, I had to commute an hour and 20 minutes both ways to get to it.

We tried in vain for over 8 months to see if the bank would cut us a break. Perhaps they would change our loan or help us out we had hoped. Making the car and mortgage payments was a struggle, and we always somehow paid both on time, no matter what. There was a store that sold groceries that had misprinted labels at a discount. We did nothing extra. We were trying to make it. We were good citizens. This went on for months. One day, we were at a normal grocery store and we had devised a system of typing into a calculator the amount of each product that we put in the grocery cart. This to ensure we wouldn’t go over our tight budget to so we could pay that mortgage. I will never forget this moment. There was a big screen television, and the news was on. I watched it live as they announced the government bailout of all the banks. The “Troubled Asset Relief Program.” I was shocked. The big banks were getting bailed out, but we weren’t! I looked at my wife, I looked at my 6-month-old daughter. In an instant, I went from shock, to anger, to being fully awake to the whole corrupt system. I decided to stop paying the mortgage at that moment. We left the grocery store that day with 2 grocery carts full of food!

Everyone has a breaking point. That was mine. For me, that was when the social contract had been broken. The decision I made that day resulted in my eventual filing for bankruptcy. It set me back financially by about 10 years. It also set me on a journey of learning about our corrupt financial system and the federal reserve. I took lessons learned from having to be frugal and financially, I eventually recovered and I started down a path of slowly becoming self reliant and self sufficient. 13 years ago, I started a plan of action to 1). Become totally debt free. 2). Build my own home free and clear. 3). Not to depend on any major utility companies or corporations for my basic needs of food, water, and shelter. Today, my cars are paid for and I have no debt save a student loan (and I am waiting to see if they “forgive”” it before I decide to pay it off)

This is the new freedom

Three years ago, I finally realized my second and third goals. I purchased 5 acres of land in the mountains. It is in a very remote area 5 miles from the nearest paved road or power line. The place is safely nestled in at 7,500 ft and my closest neighbors are a good half mile away. They are all respectful of private property, they also live off grid, and they all own guns. Last fall I finished the first half of the home, made of earthbags. The summer days rarely get warmer than 82 degrees and the nights are cool so there is not a need for air conditioning. The air is dry and there is plenty of year round sunshine to power a small solar system that keeps a solar refrigerator, freezer, a water pump, and a few lights operating. We have plenty of trees on the property, and a wood stove to keep us warm in the winter. We have a propane oven and stove top, chicken coops, and space for gardens. I am very fortunate to get high-speed internet in this remote area because of a high hill on my property and a 40 ft pole I installed and a great local company that can beam a signal my way. Most of my neighbors are not this lucky.

I am nowhere near finished building our off grid paradise; we lived up here for an entire year until June of this year. A year living on site enabled us to complete a significant amount of work that otherwise would not have been possible. Now we return on weekends to finish the project. I can currently describe the place as livable, but not yet cosmetically pleasing or totally comfortable. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Here is the cool thing. My family has a home. Since I purchased the land outright, I placed it in a shell company, protecting it from any possible future creditors. Our home is off the grid, far away from COVID, Antifa, and anyone or anything else that may want to bother us. We have plans for an extensive rainwater collection system, lush gardens, raising chickens and other small animals for our own food. Many of our neighbors do the same and barter with one another for what is needed. One person brags about how she can go 6 months to a year without ever having to go into town for food. I want to get to that point.

Our politicians are totally corrupt at virtually every level. I figure the chances of the entire financial system crashing again are pretty high. Civil War, Martial Law, a Chinese military invasion, a Communist takeover… I feel like these are all possibilities, some more probably than others. I am under no delusions that should they do away with private property rights and the US Constitution that I will hold my home forever. I know that with whatever is coming, I may survive a little longer and a little more comfortably than most. I also know that I would much rather go down shooting to defend my off grid homestead than I would in defense of a 3 bedroom ranch with a 30 year fixed in a master planned community. This is the new freedom; and building it in a remote community of like-minded patriots should be everyone’s new American Dream. For if there is to be a better civilization built upon the ashes of the one that is about to fall, it will be built by people like us.

We'd love to hear your thoughts about this article. Please take a minute to share them in the comment section by clicking here. Or carry the conversation over on your favorite social network by clicking one of the share buttons below.



 
 
 

Join the conversation!

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.



News

Biden and the Democrats Are Turning America into a Police State

Published

on

“When those who are entrusted to enforce the law,” said author and Fox host Gregg Jarrett, “instead, abuse their power to pursue innocent people in the name of justice it is the worst kind of oppression.” The ongoing weaponization of government agencies and the courts in order to stop Donald Trump is the quintessence of such oppression.

The initial goal of this scheme was the protection from prosecution and the subsequent election of Hillary Clinton. We know from reading the emails of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that high-ranking members of the FBI were working behind the scenes to ensure Trump’s defeat in the 2016 election. When that failed, the Democrats launched the second step in their plan—the special counsel investigation run by Robert Mueller to prove Trump-Russia collusion.

When that failed, step three was put in motion—the assault on Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago and a nefarious barrage of phony indictments leveled against Trump and many of his supporters. The indictments are baseless. Questioning the outcome of an election is not a crime. “One of the election crimes Trump is charged with,” said Kurt Schlichter on Townhall, “is that he allegedly conspired to violate a civil right of American citizens. What right, you ask? Well, a convoluted version of the right to vote, which apparently he conspired to interfere with by insisting that elections be honest, transparent, and unrigged. No one else has ever been prosecuted for that.”

Trending on PolitiCrossing.com: Leftist Lunatics are Running the Asylum

If successful, the indictments would put Trump in a jail cell for the rest of his life. This campaign amounts to a criminal conspiracy by Democrats to destroy the leading Republican contender for the 2024 nomination. It is an overt attempt to interfere with the outcome of a presidential election. Ironically, this is precisely the charge that the Democrats want to hang on Trump.

The Democrats have not recovered from Trump’s 2016 victory. As a political outsider sworn to “drain the swamp,” Trump scares the pants off the Washington elite. They will do anything to protect their lucrative rackets, whether their tactics are legal or not. Meanwhile, Biden is getting away with the worst corruption ever perpetrated by an American president.

Along with Biden, a guilty cast of characters is going free—Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, James Comey, Susan Rice, John Brennan, Barack Obama, and others. Gregg Jarrett has spelled out their crimes in agonizing detail. Why haven’t they been investigated? The answer: the guilty parties are the same corrupt people who run the justice system. For justice to prevail, they would be required to investigate themselves.

One consequence of the anti-Trump cabal is the loss of confidence by the American public in our system of justice. The public understands that we have a double standard. Justice and fair play do not apply to conservatives and Trump supporters.

Let’s do a little pretending. You are living in East Germany in 1960. Stasi, the repressive secret police, have arrested you and threatened that if you don’t testify against someone they want to condemn, you will spend the next 40 years behind bars and the state will go after your spouse, your children, and your beloved dog Fido. Ah, but you say, “This is America. That could never happen here.” Well guess what, this used to be the land of the free. The quaint notion that we benefit from due process has evaporated along with Cinderella’s ball gown and fancy coach.

Thanks to our politicized justice system, General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Dinesh D’Souza and now President Trump have seen their lives destroyed because of their political opposition to the corrupt Democratic Party. If the powers of government can be weaponized to sabotage a former president, what perversion of justice can be directed at you and me?

Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, author of Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, described a justice system consisting of out-of-control prosecutors who will do anything to get a conviction. She has been proven correct in a way she never anticipated. Powell is one of the Trump supporters targeted by the Democrat-fueled indictments. Goodbye USA, hello Stasi. If you refuse to support Biden, we will destroy you, your family, and your dog.

It’s the sort of thing we would expect to happen in North Korea. A venal gang of Obama alumni is getting away with a perversion of American justice. When a government doesn’t have a crime but starts a campaign to find one, that’s called a police state. Unless the anti-Trump indictments are quashed and we address the real scandal in our government—corruption in the Oval Office, DOJ, FBI, and IRS—we can kiss the American system of justice goodbye.

Ed Brodow (www.edbrodowpolitics.com) is a conservative political commentator and author of two No. 1 Amazon Best Sellers, AMERICA ON ITS KNEES: The Cost of Replacing Trump with Biden, and THE WAR ON WHITES: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport.

Continue Reading

Elections

DO YOU EVEN RECOGNIZE AMERICA TODAY?

Published

on

Do you feel like you wake up every day to a bad dream and then struggle with the fact that your nightmare is actually reality in America today? Thankfully, the polls of Democrats and Republicans alike are sending a clear message—we’ve had enough of dementia Joe. He is often incoherent with or without his teleprompter. After speaking, he consistently wanders waiting to be guided to an exit. He tries to kiss and grope women who fall into his meandering web. Heaven help him if he would actually have to handle an open press conference with unscripted questions. The man seldom even works; he majors in rest and vacations.

And yet, somehow, Biden manages to keep making executive orders and decisions that move America further into “progressive” darkness. Obviously, somebody other than the President is managing the puppet strings and moving America faster and further into institutionalizing leftist policies.

Fearful of Biden facing Trump in the 2024 election, the Democrats have managed to tie up the leading Republican candidate with 91 indictments. Their hope is that the legal quagmire and trials will restrict his ability to mount an effective campaign. Be clear. The Democrats have one goal—keep Trump out of office and hopefully in jail.

Speaking of jail, where are the investigative reporters unraveling the crimes of “the Big Guy” Biden. We have recorded statements by Joe bragging about bribing Ukrainian leaders with US funds conditional on firing the Ukrainian district attorney looking into prosecuting Burisma. Vice President Joe Biden stopped the man whose investigation could have implicated his son, Hunter Biden. The Democrats keep claiming that Hunter’s problems have nothing to do with the President.

Unfortunately for Joe, in spite of such claims more and more evidence is mounting that the President and the Biden family benefited from Hunter’s influence peddling. Hunter Biden’s email to his daughter Naomi Biden that recently became public makes clear the father’s involvement. The email has been verified by the Washington Post and is clearly damning.

According to Hunter’s statement in that email, President Joe Biden demanded and received payment for his influence. It reads, “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

This email and related information could have been made public two years ago. It could have impacted the 2020 election. If the House of Representatives initiates an impeachment inquiry, more of this information will be front and center and hard for the left-leaning media to avoid covering. With Joe Biden using aliases to send hundreds of additional incriminating emails, the evidence is just now coming to light.

If Biden is innocent of any wrongdoing, he should be cooperating and welcoming an investigation. Instead, he has already created a “war room” to be ready to fight any impeachment inquiry. Even with an inquiry, it’s unlikely that the Senate would have the votes to Impeach the President. But the more evidence that comes out, the more Democrats behind the scenes will likely be asking Biden to step down. Republicans did it with Nixon, and the Democrats would be wise to do it with Biden rather than risk him running again, losing, and taking their majority down with him.

The President’s future legal problems are not the only thing that is wreaking havoc on the American society. There is sexual confusion that is enraging many voters on the right and the left. In many states, biological men are claiming to be women and being allowed to compete in sporting events and winning against biological women. Politicians and even judges are refusing to define what a woman is. Most of us are pretty sure we know!

One meme that has been circulating makes the difference very clear. The world population is 8,030,610,062. People born from women: 8,030,610,062. People born from men: 0. They go on to suggest, “Feel free to fact check.” If men who call themselves women want to compete in sports, let them compete against other men instead of forcing their way into women’s locker rooms to live a lie.

In America today, they are not content limiting sexual confusion to adults. Many leftists are condoning trans surgery of young children to “change their sex” without parental approval. Schools can’t give an aspirin without parental approval, but in some states, children can decide to have irreversible surgery that mutilates their bodies. The parents are still responsible for caring for their children when they have to pick up the pieces from this child abuse.

Supporters call it “gender affirming care,” and it’s not all that rare. From 2016-2020, the American Medical Association reports 3,678 gender affirming surgeries done on children twelve to eighteen years of age. Columbia University has found that 3,315 children had breast surgery and 405 had genital surgery at a young age. This is not “care” of any kind! If anyone wants to do this to their body, wait until they are an adult and pay for it themselves.

If this is not enough, we have an administration claiming we have a secure border when millions continue to stream across our border in record numbers. Even sanctuary cities like New York have had enough. America takes pride in welcoming legal immigrants. It’s time to close down the flood of illegals.

Add to that the dismal performance in public schools around the country. Our kids are falling behind, and Democrats, coveting the support of teacher unions, refuse to even consider school choice. Minority parents want it, and Biden and his administration stand in the way.

It’s clear that America is hard to recognize as the country we once loved and cherished. It’s rapidly becoming a leftist loony bin in need of an intervention! Let’s hope that comes in November of 2024.

Continue Reading

 

Our Newsletter

Become a Politicrossing insider: Sign up for our free email newsletter, and we'll make sure to keep you in the loop.

Sites We Like

Jesus, Master of Influence

Chris Widener, speaker and best selling author of The Art of Influence, teaches that Jesus is the master of influence. In sixteen sessions you will learn from one of the most influential communicators how the life and teachings of Jesus Christ is the best model for how to become an effective influence that can change people’s thoughts, beliefs and actions.

LEARN MORE

Our Newsletter

Become a PolitiCrossing insider: Sign up for our free email newsletter, and we'll make sure to keep you in the loop.

Trending