Thesis Statement

(The thoughts of a young American man on the state of a nation…)

We used to live in a country where no standing monument could compare to our spirit, where, if you were an artist, you were nothing until you could do a perfect Lincoln, where anything was possible, if you were an American.

By no means am I saying that the old times were idyllic. Largely, and in most measurable respects, the times we live in now are better than they've ever been, and the reason people continue to flock to this country is because we are so prosperous. Our spirit, however, seems to have been crushed by the ones entrusted to serve us. Apathy, the greatest enemy of the people, the greatest ally of the pigopolist, has pervaded our national consciousness, and if it continues to grow as it has been for the past decades, this nation as we know it will simply cease to exist.

The presidency, thanks mostly to the current administration but also partly to the six or seven previous ones as well (Carter, while practically spineless in foreign affairs, was still a noble man with a good heart), has become the punchline to a most serious national joke. Even now we have a man in power that has been instructed to feel that "the American people are safer." Apparently the criteria for this assumption is based on the strength of both reiteration and talking points distributed to media outlets that are nearly indistinguishable from propaganda machines. Facts? Forget about 'em!

There is one definite thing that has declined since the old times: the President used to be someone to be admired, someone to look up to, someone to try to be like, a person to at least be respected, if not loved.

Tell that to a kid in 1988, for example and you might be accused of child abuse. I'm talking about a man who couldn't even be bothered to pretend to care about the offices he walked into based on his celebrity (once as a movie star, once as a Governor), who put on a dim, mumbling, almost senile façade for the public while he used an absolutely ruthless killer instinct in all matters in private. Selling weapons to Iran to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua, training the Afghani Mujahideen who fought the Soviets and later attacked us, arming Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons and the 'regime change' in Panama are all excellent examples of this man not only knowing full well what awesome power the office holds, but how to manipulate it to try to covertly control global affairs. But, since this is not about the Reagan Dynasty and how many felony prosecutions it caused, I digress…

I'm also still not sure that Congress has ever worked. Bicameral legislation, while supposedly giving independent voice to both the states and the people, is firstly hiding behind itself, where one house can propose a bill that the people want but that harms the interests of the parties at large and the other can silently kill it, blaming the death of yet another good idea on 'politics,' Second, because of PACs and lobbyists, we no longer have a government "of, for and by the people," we have one that's at least partly 'of, for and by the businesses.' Also known as: 'special interests.'

Last time I checked, such an intimate liaison between business and government, at the expense of liberty and privacy of the individual, was called 'Fascism,' the type of government Hitler and Mussolini used.

I don't know a single person who puts trust in this government. Frankly, I'd be wary of anyone who does.

I do, however, have Faith in the system we live under, however tenuous it may be.

I have often considered fleeing the corruption, the problems, the waste, the nation itself, just because the mess seems insurmountable. But, when I think of the literal miracles Washington was involved in (having coats he was wearing and horses he was riding riddled with bullets but always escaping injury, not making himself emperor of America when most people would've supported his dynasty, and making America the only republic in history to have a revolution that didn't collapse into itself), about people like Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony and T.R. and JFK and RFK and MLK, about the American idealist who fought for his or her beliefs and for others, I always regress to one immutable truth:

We, the people of the United States of America, must make certain, by any means possible, that our government remains of, for, and by the people. This is not a right, this isn't even a responsibility, this is what I call the Curse of Liberty, that every person who lives under this idea of Democratic Republican Government must realize that if one does not step up and take part in the process, one becomes subject to the whims of the people who participate only to manipulate.

I am the grandson of two Polish peasant immigrants whose home town was annihilated by the aggression of the Weirmacht, and who were enslaved by Nazis as subhuman laborers. This happened because the people of Germany at the time were unwilling to take a stand or try to make a difference.

I, as a natural born citizen of these United States, cannot escape the Curse of my duties as an American. I shall do everything within my power to help realize America as the dream the Framers had.

I believe in very few things, for belief changes nothing, and fact is all that really matters. However, one of the few things I do truly believe in is that you should never complain about anything without also proposing a solution to that which you have problems with. What I will be proposing here are the ideas that keep my Faith in America.

In an effort to help perfect this Union, Nova America will address the problems the United States appears to have, and attempt to provide steps to be taken in order to resolve them.