Breaking Over America: A New Dawn

The Famished Patriot has been relatively silent for a good while. With this blog I am launching a new series of posts that will commence to lay out the new dawn that has begun to break across the American landscape.

If you have not been tuned into current events, if you gave up tracking with things a long time ago, if you are confused amidst all the chaos going on in high places, or if you simply need a fresh dose of encouragement, read on. The second American revolution is getting underway.

In the posts that will follow over the next days/weeks/months, I am going to do my best to explain to you, in simple terms, what has been transpiring and why we should be very hopeful about our nation’s future, and why we should not despair. There is so much to report that I cannot insure you that everything will be rolled out in chronological order, or that it will all make sense at first. In some regards it will be like a puzzle that you will have to assemble for your self.

The opening salvo …

On the eve of his departure from office, on January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued a bold warning. He proclaimed:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

From the vantage point of nearly sixty years past, Eisenhower saw something that is now, very much, a reality. With the untimely death of President Kennedy, and the swearing in of LBJ, a small band of industrialists and elected government leaders began in earnest to set in motion plans drawn up nearly a half-century before (1910’s) to take control of our country away from the American people and to place it into their own hands. They almost succeeded.

By chance, did you listen to Donald Trump’s Inaugural speech? I did, and I was quite encouraged by it. It certainly was unconventional. And he was excoriated by many who claimed it was dark. But read this:

“Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another – but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.

“For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.”

I thrilled at the hearing of those words from the strange, orange-haired man at the podium. But I could not yet see what I see today. Fifteen months following his inauguration, as the chaos continues to swirl—from “collusion,” to “obstruction,” to “mentally unprepared,” to “morally impaired,” to “Stormy Daniels”—I can see now that the tide has begun to turn. I can see, faintly on the horizon, a new dawn emerging on our land.

Before I close, I will throw out a few words and phrases for you to ponder:

• chaos candidate
• coup
• counter-coup
• citizen journalist
• the Q phenomenon
• wrecking ball