Glenn Beck held a tremendous patriot rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC this weekend. It was a spectacle of patriotism that has been building for several years now. The majority of Americans love America–the America that was created and intended by the founding fathers. This America involves a separation of rights and politics, or rights and race.

The Beck “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, 8-28-10. It was estimated that over 100,000 people attended.

Race has become an obstacle in that vision, of course. Beck said what he really felt, that Obama is a racist, but then has already backed off this statement. He says he regrets having said that, etc. Thus, in the classic way, Beck demonstrated just how permanently obfuscating race has become in America. (Ah, white people are so very noble, kind, and unwilling to offend! Now, if they can just translate that grandeur of disposition into restoration of the country! Alas, Beck chose to recognize the inevitable issue of race, holding the rally when, where, and how he did. After all, the Negro is the unavoidable center of attention–no matter how unworthily, undeservedly, and unwanted. The Negro is an “in your face” proposition, and the White Man is stuck with him, and has made everyone else stuck with him as well. Yes, the Negro rules America, at this point, by Collective social Conscious default. Beck’s backtrack just proved that. Even in the most glorious, idealistic vision of American restoration, the Negro must be made the center of attention, lest he be offended. It’s called “rights.”)

Sorry to say, Sarah Palin played into the same chronic dissembling:
Palin: “I hope that Dr. King would be so proud of us.” Really? Why would anyone care? Is he some Negro saint whom whites must consult for blessing? Palin was pathetic on this one. There’s a point when pity for blacks becomes enslavement to them. Indeed, the Negro has enslaved the white man. But, I digress.

Honoring the fathers, as a notion, is in itself an interesting element of thought in the social movement to recover American society. It is a deeply romantic notion, full of poetry, history, and deepest social consciousness. Nothing could be more honorable than the fathers, and it seems they are the focus, the impetus, of all movements of restoration. (And it is true, the lying, alien, black African African Communist Muslim traitor in the White House does despise the white fathers of this country, and their values, and the United States Constitution. Thus, he represents all that is odious in the American Negro.)

The fathers, of course, must include the Pilgrims. The colonists. Not just those who participated in the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution of the United States. Those documents evolved from the social and religious values established by the Pilgrims, or, the Puritans. This was the White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant foundation of the country.

There is an interesting parallel between the way in which conservative Christians regard the Bible, and conservative Americans regard the Constitution. Both rely on a historical document. Both realize that social organization and technology change, and that the historical document must be applied (or interpreted) to these changes. But, the documents must not change, nor their meaning, nor their interpretations. The very pith of conservatism is in this insistence on preserving, conserving, or “saving” the true vision and intents of the fathers. Most of those people comprising the core of conservatives in America happen to be Bible believing Christians, are they not?

Now, let’s examine for a moment the idea of honoring the fathers. Let’s see just exactly what it is we’re doing.

Joseph J. Ellis made some interesting observations about “the fathers” in his Pulitzer Prize-winner, Founding Brothers (Vintage, 2002). His thesis is that the “fathers” were not in fact aware of the future. There vision was not so terribly clear, nor were they completely confident that their principles of government would be successful, at all. It was a gamble–for which they risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. This gives a healthy reality to their circumstances, lest we attribute any-too-prophetic a notion in them, lest we lose the significance of their move, the strength of their daring, in our distant idolizing of their greatness. The American Revolution was a terrible risk. Only a third of the colonists were willing to take it! The bravery of those who did is, of course, legendary. They created the United States of America–they believed, “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,” a disposition unknown in Washington today, and apparently despised by the current resident of the White House.

So, in a way, Americans today, who want to restore America, must be willing to take the same risk, and for the same reasons. It is probably mistaken to think that things are going to turn around by voting. It is probably an erroneous notion to think that things just have to get better. There are horrid governments out there in the Third World. There are satanic, oppressive tyrannies–in practice, now, as we speak, fully operative. It is terribly naive to suppose that American could never fall into such a state of affairs. The culture of corruption is a vibrant decay. The path to Barry’s “change” is well travelled, and America is well down that path.

The ancient Jews never believed that Jerusalem would fall. It was impossible. Indeed, Lamented the prophet Jeremiah (4:12):

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

But it happened. No faith could have been more solid, even lock-brained, that that of the Jews. But, Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian broke down the walls of Jerusalem in 586 BC. It happened.

America can fall, too. Most conservatives believe it is falling, now. The enemies of America might never have believed it, either, but, it is happening. The gates of Jerusalem are entered, indeed. The enemy is here, basking in the Constitutional freedoms! ready to build a monument to their envy and hatred of America.

Glenn Beck is certainly to be thanked for his efforts to honor the fathers. All the conservative talkers, most of whom would never think of running for office, are nevertheless to be thanked for their efforts to encourage the preservation and restoration of America–however well-paid those efforts are. The marketing of conservatism is part and parcel of free enterprise. But the, so is propaganda. And it is true that most of the government advertisments (propagand) are on air time purchased from conservative talk show stations. There’s your Fairness Doctrine in action. Taxed payer supported government green compassion ads–evenly distributed through out conservative talk show time.

Glen Beck at his Washington Rally, 8-28-10.

In the end, the white oedipal liberals will be stopped by nothing but force. They have usurped all the civilized means of social progress. They have control of freedom’s mechanisms. Conservatives can used every civil means possible, every political process, every legitimate social avenue, even through free enterprise; but, revolution is on the agenda of those who know history. Revolution is the only path to full restoration. Other paths are illusionary, based on some opiate of professional purpose or media entertainment–which idolizes the fathers of freedom, yet is not willing to pay the price they paid for it.