Real equality and a healthy society comes from good old fashioned hard work available to the masses. Punch in, punch out. Blue Collar Unity. Hammer a nail. Drink a beer. Rip a smoke.
68% of U.S. consumer products companies use outsourcing. More than two-thirds (68 percent) of large U.S. consumer products companies are currently outsourcing some portion of their workforce. (According to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers Retail & Consumer Industry Practice report released June 7).
There is a father absence crisis in America. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 19.7 million children, more than 1 in 4, live without a father in the home. Consequently, there is a father factor in nearly all social ills facing America today. (www.fatherhood.org)
In 2014-18, the share of families headed by single parents was 75% among African American families, 58% among Hispanic families, 37% among white families and 21% among Asian families. (Pew Research Center)
During this quarantine I have clearly taken time to reflect upon my own personal philosophy and politics. It started as a mildly snark filled blog diving into our American culture and society. My conclusion quickly landed on the importance of family. More recently since the death of George Floyd, and the misguided assault towards everything America stands for; I have been feverishly compelled to clearly draw my own line in the sand, and defend the American way of life.
My last piece touched on how the outsourcing of our jobs has ruined not only black communities, but all of our lower to middle class regions of the country. This profit over ethics trend in our society has led to purposeless lives, drug filled tragedies, broken homes, and urban crime syndicates that are the direct cause towards staggering murder rates. After posting the piece “Demand Jobs Back on American Soil,” it quickly dawned on me that the two most important conclusions I have come to during this political, and philosophical deep dive into our country’s soul has been the absolute need for a strong sense of Economic Nationalism, and Pro- Family Values. That is not to say happiness, and fruitful lives cannot exist outside of these concepts. Functional outliers thrive all the time, but outliers aren’t backbones for overarching and long lasting success.
In fact I believe the two are inextricably linked not only for a truly sustainable, and peaceful America, but for any country. Unbeknownst to me during this journey of what I thought was going to be just some spitball takes on society, I ended up digging deep, and carefully crafting my own core beliefs for all things politics, and life. In other words creating the mission statement, and the tenets for being an American Maniac.
“Economic Nationalism and The Family.”
Two concepts that are truly in the end colorless, race-less, and create individual sovereignty from The State. If you are an American//Maniac, the dependency on the state (Welfare and Reparations) must be an abhorrent, and if you’re anti-family, you are no American//Maniac either. This blog was initially supposed to have an interesting, colorful, and aesthetically leaning 1970's American vibe that I hoped was going to endear the reader towards the past generations of rebellious free thinking successful Americans with the likes of Steve McQueen, Richard Pryor, and JFK. While I still intend it to be all those things, I have also come to realize the idea of an American//Manic is now more clearly defined, with a specific vested interest in society.
We are in the middle of quite possibly the biggest existential threat to the concept of America since its birth. At first I thought this was a parallel to the sixties, but I no longer think that. The hippies of the sixties quoted the forefathers, wore confederate flags to stick it to the man, and men like MLK and Malcolm X would have despised the idea of dismantling the family, stripping away the second amendment, and fighting oppression with 1984 style re-education for a specific race. They wanted pure unbridled colorless meritocracy. They would have seen ripping down statues, and liberals vomiting platitudes on network television as the work of non-serious children, and wolves in sheep’s clothing. MLK wanted all races at the table, believed in America, believed in capitalism, and Christianity. Malcolm X despised the smooth talking liberal, and respected the often ignorant crass nature of the middle class conservative. The middle class blue collar American in the end had much similar societal goals with both MLK and X, than any left leaning revolutionary. That sentiment has never been more true than with the "revolutionaries" we see today in the likes of ANTIFA. Mutually exclusive frustration isn’t a common goal, it’s a common cold.
"The White Liberal is the worst enemy to America, and the worst enemy to the black man...The liberal elements of whites are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the Negro as a friend of the Negro. Then the Negro sides with the White Liberal, and the white liberal uses the Negro against the white conservative."
-Malcolm X
From Malcolm X, and George Floyd to the Coronavirus, there has clearly always been a battle for what ails America, and what is needed to fine tune it. The belief in the family needs to be the starting point, and the only way that is a successful endeavor is the promotion of unwavering pride in our country’s middle class. Jobs, good jobs. They are the backbone for the creation of a long lasting multi generational family. Jobs that pay well, that are sustainable, that allow a man and women to create a family. And, that is what true independence, and purpose is really all about. You want to stick it to the man? Then create your own tribe. A tribe that will be economically set up for generations to come.
A Simple Three Step Plan to Stick it to the Man.
1- Good Job
2-Own Land
3-Create A Tribe (Start a family).
Because in the end there is nothing more an overreaching immoral governing body despises than a wealth of citizens in no need for its power or influence.
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