Redneck Review!
No. 248 - 1/27/2020
Most history students have been exposed to the often quoted: "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them."  This ancient claim is most relevant today as we move towards the 2020 election, with important primaries coming up shortly! Some important facts need to be reviewed in view of those upcoming events.
1) The United States today is the most successful nation on record in history, and has become so in a relatively short period of time. The pressure from  thousands of immigrants who want to come here is sufficient proof for now. The record and our own personal experience both testify that we have today and have had in the past several hundred years, the most freedom and greatest amount of wealth and highest standard of living that can be found in all history.
2) Though ignored today and even suppressed by many is the fact that this nation from the very beginning was started on a firm Christian base. Deny it all you who refuse to admit it, but a careful study of the past unaltered record is solid proof that this is true. Columbus today is ignored and suppressed and considered by many of the so-called elite to be nothing more than a suppressor of the natives he found when he landed here.  But read the available history, and you will find a far different story. The existence still today of hundreds of American towns and cities named after Christian saints and events is proof for those willing to accept the facts.
3) Careful thought and study of history again tells us that our country from the beginning began as an experiment in free enterprise and Christian capitalism.  Study the history of Jamestown; you will find the early attempts to use a "Common Storehouse" system, in which everyone was supposed to work for the good of all, then use as needed,  was a total starving disaster. A close analysis of this system cannot help but remind the reader of the Marxist goal of "From each as he is able,  to each as is his need."  History further records that a new system in which each provided for themselves, then sold excess produced, led to a new prosperity. Similar was the experience of the Plymouth colony under the leadership of William Bradford.
The term "Christian capitalism" was used above to distinguish it from the type of "capitalism" that is often criticized today involving greed and a "no holds barred, dog eat dog" system, which is often found today, which ignores all morality and concern for neighbor, in unregulated efforts to gain wealth and power.  Boldly it is said here, that free enterprise, or traditional capitalism, is the economic system that goes hand in hand with Christianity, the religion which still 80% or more Americans still claim to profess. Both preach the ownership of private property..."Thou shalt not steal" says one Commandment, and  "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods" says another. Both the religion and the economic system require individual effort and care for family and the unfortunate, and as St. Paul says in one of his epistles: "He who does not work, let him not eat."
Important it is, to recognize the traditional thinking of our founding fathers and our ancestors who subscribed  to the above and made our nation the envy of the world. In a few months, we will choose leaders who subscribe to the system above, or to the modern "Pied Piper" call to a failed Socialism, which promises everything, where we, like a herd of cattle, are cared and provided for by a huge government which promises us everything, requiring little or no effort in exchange. And in the process, ignores the lessons that history has already taught us: in Cuba, Russia, and others, and in our next door neighbor, Venezuela!  It took only 50 years for that poor unfortunate nation to go from a thriving economy and standard of living, to starvation! So the question is, have we already learned this lesson of history or will we never learn?
Jake Wren

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