Are "You" Concerned About YOUR America?

ARE "YOU" CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR AMERICA, the America where your children and grandchildren will grow up?   I know that I have great concerns about many aspects of American life under the current anti-American Democratic rule. 

Concerns about Immigration, Open Borders, out of control Economy, declining leadership role in world events, and so many other facets of what before was a stable America under Conservative leadership.

Would you and your family go to sea in a ship with many holes in a porous hull where sea water openly flowed in, threatening to sink the vessel?  No?  Then why are you allowing the current political leaders to open holes in our national borders?  Open for millions of illegals to flow in at their will, threatening to sink our beloved America?

And who is controlling the fate and health of YOUR America?  Is it an American leadership constitutionally elected by "We The People"?  Or has America become a nation whose destiny is under the thumb of our national enemies, i.e., China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.?

Today I received the e-mail below from Hillsdale College.  Who is Hillsdale College?  Glad you asked:

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Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” 

It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.”

As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.

Hillsdale’s founders opened the doors to all, regardless of race or religion, in 1844.  It was the first college in Michigan, and the second in the United States, to admit women on par with men.  Its cosmopolitan student body is assembled from homes from all across America and many foreign countries.

Hillsdale College maintains its defense of the traditional liberal arts curriculum, convinced that it is the best preparation for meeting the challenges of modern life and that it offers to all people of all backgrounds not only an important body of knowledge, but also timeless truths about the human condition.

Since the late 20th century, in order to opt out of federal affirmative action policies, Hillsdale has been among a small number of U.S. colleges to DECLINE governmental financial support, instead depending entirely on private funding to supplement students' tuition.

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Dear Friend,

I wish to invite you to enroll in an eight-lecture course that I prepared with the help and under the auspices of Hillsdale College.  It is called “American Citizenship and Its Decline,” and the online course is based on my latest book, the recently released The Dying Citizen.

Like the book, the course describes the current crises in America as symptoms of a far larger problem: the steady decline of the autonomy and political influence of the citizen.

The class describes the origins and history of citizenship in the West, reminding us that it is a rare phenomenon both in the past and the present - given the enormous responsibility placed on citizens to create and control their own government.

Citizenship then requires a large and self-reliant middle class - currently shrinking under enormous economic strains.  Clearly defined and enforced borders are also essential to ensure a civic space in which citizens can nurture common customs, sustain traditions, and honor their own shared past.

Yet borders are now increasingly fluid as mere residence and citizenship seem often indistinguishable.  Pre-civilizational tribalism - identifying by superficial appearance rather than through shared culture and values - is returning to America as so often the salad bowl replaces the melting pot.

These organic, bottom-up challenges are often matched by top-down stresses such as the growth of a permanent, but unelected, government of bureaucrats and administrators who combine judicial, executive, and legislative powers that overwhelm the citizen.

In addition, revisionists in law, the media, and politics seek to change the Constitution, long-held customs of governance, and political traditions for short-term partisan agendas, on the theory that a new changing and fluid Constitution must match an always evolving human nature.

Globalism is an ancient challenge to the sovereignty of the nation-state.  But in the age of instant communications and unprecedented concentrations of globalized wealth, so often elites seek to supplant American laws and independence with international organizations and often without the consent of the legislative branch or the assent of the governed.

Bill Gray Note:  Beginning with Clinton, but becoming overwhelmingly blatant during the Obama administration, the Democrats have worked diligently to surrender all of America's sovereignty to the Globalist organization, the United Nations.  That threat began during the Wilson administration and World War 1 with the League of Nations - but was fully birthed and nurtured once the United Nations was allowed to share-crop on American soil.

The course ends, however, on an optimistic note that citizens still have it within their power to restore our traditions of empowered citizenship and return government to the control of citizens.

“American Citizenship and Its Decline” is free to enroll in, and you can begin the course today by clicking on the secure link below.

https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/american-citizenship-and-its-decline

Best wishes,

Victor Davis Hanson
Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History
Hillsdale College

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Knowledge is power!  And I invite all my Friends to learn more about Hillsdale College - and to take advantage of their vast resources of education, lectures, and I especially invite you to subscribe to their great monthly FREE publication, IMPRIMIS.   You can subscribe by visiting this link:  https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill 

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