America was built by people with their backs against the wall. The American Revolution was a no brainer, with untrained militia pitted against the best equipped, most fearsome army in the world. Ships came in and pounded New York City into submission while George Washington stood in the distance and watched the fires. Before it was over he had to redesign warfare to fit the American situation, and he did that because his back was against the wall.
As pioneers moved west there were other people there already, and they didn’t want anyone on their property. Fact was, an Indian could fire an arrow seven times faster than a musket could be reloaded. Bullet or arrow, the song remains the same. Yet, they survived. The Indians were pushed back by the increasing pressure of the advance of “civilization.” The original pilgrims from Plymouth weren’t very bright. Most of them either starved to death, or fell to disease. They couldn’t grow a weed if they had unlimited water and Miracle Grow. The Indians had to show them how to make corn grow using fish. The settlers who pushed west weren’t much better. America at that point wasn’t a “bread basket” it was more like a soup kitchen.
All throughout American history everything was hard, and there was no free lunch. Everyone had one thing in common. Their backs were against the wall. No food stamps, no Social Security, no welfare. All through the growth of the nation innovation would be the salvation. Need transportation for goods from New York, build the Erie Canal. Need heat for a hard winter, dig a huge coal mine. Need to bring down the price of an automobile so the common worker could buy one, invent the assembly line. Need water for Los Angeles, bring it by aqueduct the length of California. Each time adversity raised its head, innovation would pat that head back down, and America would move forward.
There are two side of this coin. The inventive spirit of the American spirit would smooth the bumps in the road of everyday life, and this was fine for those who lived through those bumps, but what happens the next generation? What happens when an entire generation comes along who never even saw a bump? As a teenage girl in Austin turns on her lamp to read a book, does she appreciate the farmer, just fifty years before, who was very happy to have just one light bulb in the whole house so he didn’t have to light a oil lamp every time he wanted to see? When you drink your Starbucks, did you know that in a cookbook from 1892 the recipe for coffee began with, “Bake the beans for one hour before grinding?”
Now move forward two generations. Now you have a population who not only never saw a bump, they have never even seen a picture of a bump in the road. An entitled generation that believes the world is their oyster and the government is responsible for an endless supply no matter who has to fund it. Where, during the American Revolution, people died for liberty these new Americans wouldn’t even take a bus ride three blocks to listen to a speaker talking about liberty if you gave them a free token! The inner cities are filled with people allergic to hard work who do pushups in front of the Food Stamp office. Add to this the virtual invasion of foreign populations bent to tearing down everything America has built and you have a volatile mix.
What is happening right now in America is a natural evolution. Hard times make hard people. When times get softer, people get softer. Then other hard people come from somewhere else, not to reinvigorate the dream, but to destroy, and steal. It happened to Rome, it happened to Carthage, and it will happen to America. Americans are now soft and stupid. When asked on MLK day, the average person on the street in L. A. believed that Dr. King freed the slaves, indeed, when asked if they saw his live speech that morning, MOST critiqued the speech, never even knowing Dr. King had been dead for decades.
There is one saving grace in all this mess. The Republic of Texas! Texas is just close enough to hard times to still have the memory of them in the minds of living persons. There are old men who remember that one light bulb in the main area of the house. They remember the convenience of getting a glass of water from a faucet as opposed to a well. This is important. Texas can turn the situation around. If the Titanic had began a turn a little bit sooner it would have missed that iceberg! The entire purpose of the Texas Nationalist Movement is to miss the iceberg.
Our ideas are corny. Our ideas are old fashioned. We look silly. We say things that are not politically correct. We go on and on about things like secession, and the right to carry protection. We don’t like weird hippy religions coming along trying to supersede our courts. We hold doors open for ladies, and still say, “Ma’am.” We are like dinosaurs lumbering toward that comet. But, America we’re all you GOT!” Who else is going to save your country? Some gang banger in East L. A.? Some guy in the White House who won his last election solely because he was darker than his opponent? A department that steals and sells your kids to the highest bidder? I thought Mr. Lincoln said we couldn’t do that anymore.
Yes, Texas is the last hope of America. We want to secede not because we don’t like America, not because we do not appreciate the hard work of previous generations who overcame extreme adversities, but because we can’t afford to support your huddled masses yearning to be paid! Yes, our ideas are harsh. Yes, you’ll have to work. Yes, you’ll have to stand up on occasion when a bunch of nut jobs show up on your Capitol steps and start spewing some mantra in an alien language. Yes, we demand that you be a citizen of the Republic in order to live, work, and prosper there. We do not owe you a check, healthcare, housing, or freedom of religion when that religion is really a political system designed to bring Texas down to the level of the sewer you just left.
Texas is unique. Remember, we’re the guys who’ll hole up in a church and shoot at you. I know it seems as if we are apathetic, but Texans tend to go off “all at once.” We will put up with something forever and then just explode. We’re basically laid back people. We welcome almost anyone so long as they want to work, help, and keep their lives private. We don’t care about your religion, personal relationships, drug of choice, so long as you don’t try to impose them on the rest of us while we do our thing.
So, as America grows softer, and more distant from its roots, Texas fertilizes those roots, and defends everything those patriots at Valley Forge gave us. We’re trying to give you America back! Your backs are against the wall again! Somewhere in a pub in Pennsylvania I hope there are some men sitting around having a beer, reading this article, and one of them says, “Now that’swhat I’m talking about!”
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