The inimitable Don Feder has this brilliant piece on the “Forgotton American” in a speech he gvae at the Independent Third Force Conservative Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2007
It is a must read if there ever was one.
Today, all too many Americans feel like aliens in our own country — strangers in a strange land.
· The Forgotten American of today is the worker taxed 40% of his income for schools that don’t educate, courts that don’t dispense justice and bureaucracies that destroy enterprise and annihilate freedom, as well as for benefits for hordes of uninvited guests who sup at our table.
· They’re the veterans who find anti-Americanism rampant (especially among the elites) and treason masquerading as dissent.
· They’re soldiers on the ground in Iraq, who are told by a majority in Congress that they’re behind them all the way — while they signal Al Qaeda to just hold on a bit longer and victory will be theirs.
· They’re parents who are told they have no say in their children’s educations — that the public schools have an absolute right to indoctrinate them in any foolish fad or social toxin.
· They’re Christians, whose people settled this land and founded this nation (on Judeo-Christian principles) who aren’t allowed to have public displays of the Ten Commandments or prayers in public settings. They’ve seen Christmas become the Incredible Shrinking Holiday — in a nation that’s 90% Christian. Meanwhile, one party tells Christians that Islam is the “religion of peace,” while the other says that, if they assert themselves too boldly, they are the moral equivalent of Islamic terrorists.