20th century America can be described in many ways, but one sad fact rings loudly true. In spite of all the government proselytizing and supportive media propaganda, meaningful quality of life for Americans has significantly declined. Swept under the spell of socialists political thinkers, American citizens were on a constant slow burner that, with systematic effectiveness, maneuvered them from self-reliant, incentive based strivers to defeated dependents on big government social engineering schemes. While we watched, our birth contract, guaranteed by a great constitution that valued natural rights, was gradually reinterpreted to support a socialist agenda born in 19th century Marxism. It happened with such deftness, that change came with a small incremental creep and, in the face of mild irritation, was barely noticed and quickly digested. The minimal resistance, mostly from shrinking conservative influences, became marginalized almost to the point of ineffectiveness.

By the beginning of the new century, Americans found themselves supplicants of a new world order. The current socialist movement intends to make us equals, end suffering, marginalize wealth, celebrate diversity and plan the framework of our society so that we would become compliant. The global village philosophy, in fact, even goes so far as to define for us the character and expectations of human happiness. Self-determination, self-reliance, incentive based behaviors, individual achievement and competition, all part of the collection of natural rights given specific protections under the constitution and that are now threats to the socialist system, have, through carefully crafted destruction of critical reasoning and individual ability to resist, become America's new evils.

Controlling the human urge to seek meaningful quality of life, however, is not easy. There is a need emanating from the human soul that will forever be in constant conflict with the new world order. Human nature cannot be completely tamed, undermined or absolutely controlled. The greatest failure of the social welfare system is in attempting to operate outside of an understanding of the historical context and rules of life itself. It is like trying to build a house without a foundation. The walls would require extraordinary energy and effort to remain standing. Sustaining the integrity of such a structure would be hardly efficient or easy to accomplish. Yet, building a new society on an arbitrary foundation that fails to respect the rules governing human happiness and existence is exactly what the American political system has accomplished.

American government can be best described as completely detached and arrogant, operating without the consent of its people. The natural inclinations of its citizens is to be drawn to behaviors that are incentive based, encouraged by freedom, determined by individual initiative and characterized by competitively striving to thrive. That is the way humans, and all species, find happiness and livelihood. There are no equals, only equal opportunity. And, in fact, the very competition that drives the human need to grow and thrive is conditional on perceived inequality, an idea that literally flies in the face of social welfare notions of equality and political correctness.

No truly happy world can have all winners or losers. That is a fact of life that no social engineering can change. Quality of life is in the competitive actions of survival itself, striving to goals, reaching to achieve objectives that contain unique, idiosyncratic self-defined values and not those defined for us by the arbitrary ideas of the group. The idea of freedom that guarantees meaningful quality of life is the momentum of humans striving to achieve greatness and fulfillment. On the other hand, we have seen entitlements and dependency breed directionless mediocrity, depression and anxiety.

The American social welfare state's only means of control is by force of suppression. Compliance is ensured by a complex system of asset confiscation, redistribution schemes, pervasive propaganda and constant threats of surveillance and draconian penalties. The effect is to silence the voices of dissent. Given the irritations of human resistance, it is not an easy system to manage. As in the example of the house without a foundation, it is a social and economic structure hard to sustain. It consumes constant energy and an endless supply of citizen resources. Eventually, the system begins to collapse under its own weight. There is, indeed, a high price to pay for the arbitrary socialist notion of equality.

The battlefield ahead is the challenge to restore the true birthright of the American people, their contract with the constitution designed to nourish the only realistic circumstances of happiness and meaningful quality of life.