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Welcome (Back) To The Age Of DIY America

Guest post by: Michael Hume

Article Overview: Big Government, Big Media, Big Medicine, Big Everybody, take note: we're starting to ask ourselves what, exactly, we need you for.

Welcome (Back) To The Age Of DIY America

"Do It Yourself" Sounds Good To Us These Days Big Government, Big Media, Big Medicine, Big Everybody, take note: we're starting to ask ourselves what, exactly, we need you for.

The mood is changing in the United States. The entitlement/victimhood generation is waning, and entrepreneurship/charity is on the rise. Where, before, we were inclined to let our big institutions do for us, we are starting to feel more like doing for ourselves, and for each other.

Yes, it's starting to look a little like the late 18th century in this country. If the rise of something called "the tea party" doesn't clue you in to this, nothing will.

Since being founded almost entirely on the principles of personal responsibility, inspiration, and opportunity, America has been marching oh-so-slowly ("progressively," if you will) away from those principles and toward the liberals' notion of Utopia: central planning, central control, and centralized power over a nation they hope to addict to the entitlements of the nanny state. Now and then, the progressives' progress has been slowed (a Reagan here, a tax cut there)... but the trend has been consistent and scary for more than a hundred years.

Finally, we've abdicated our citizen power to a government so recklessly bent upon racing toward progressive goals that we can finally see what the end of that road will look like... and we are not in love with what we see. All the cool stuff the liberals have been promising us are starting to look less like "benefits" and more like "burdens." And the big institutions, rather than seeing what we see, refuse to get it. They double-down on the policies that will drive us faster and faster toward the ruin of what has been (and still could be) the greatest nation in the history of our world.

If you are the sort of person who's waiting around for the state to take care of you, you are in big trouble. It's time to sense the mood around you, and prepare for the new age of self-reliance. Don't wait around for the government to "save or create" your job... make your own job by starting an internet business. Don't wait around for Obamacare to provide you with free low-quality health care... start caring about your own health by eating right, exercising, and taking good supplements. Don't wait around for the "infotainment" industry to tell you what to think... get online and educate yourself about what's really happening in the global economy and body politic.

President Kennedy told us not to ask what our country could do for us, but what we could do for our country. A generation earlier, President Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural speech included the declaration that it was not our destiny to be ministered unto, but to minister to ourselves, and to our fellow man (surprising, given the way he governed for the next twelve years). If they could see how their political party has "progressed," you wonder what the men who wrote those speeches would have to say about today's far-left administration.

But don't spend too much time wondering about it. You have a lot to do yourself.

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