The essay below was written by the main character, Justin Brooks, in the novel, Hungry Nation, written by Greg Nichols. It is timely today, read it carefully.
“Hungry Nation:
An
American Animal Farm”
By
Justin Brooks
The political face of America has
drastically changed over the last few years.
Many Americans do not understand this change, and many feel the change
is not so bad. The first droplets of an
approaching torrential downpour of social change that is reflected in socialism
are refreshing, and seem to be very long awaited. People want to see their government take action and solve
issues. So the silver lining of early
socialism in a nation does not last, and human nature is the root cause. The temptation to seize control of a
weakened nation that feels it must turn to socialism to repair its problems is
a great one; those in power with the ability to seize control must grab that
control and use a vice-like grip to keep that control. This is the human nature factor, and because
of this, socialistic regimes are quite predictable.
“I predict future
happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the
labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Thomas
Jefferson
As this quote of Thomas Jefferson suggests,
the introduction of socialism to a nation is a pretense and a ploy to seize
power by a few power hungry people. In
a socialistic society, there is always one party who will not live equally with
all the rest of the nation in commonality, and that party is the ruling
party. Next, that party must develop a
police force of considerable might, such as the Gestapo or KGB, to oppress and
terrorize the people by keeping them in line or to turn over any uprisings of
patriots who feel the system is unfair or want their old freedoms back and are
trying to preserve the few freedoms they have left. Once full-fledged socialism has set in, the lack of freedom is
dreadfully evident and very nearly intolerable.
In the 1940’s, author George Orwell wrote the
novel Animal Farm as a response to Totalitarian, Socialistic and Communist
regimes, such as Hitler’s in Germany, and Communism in Russia.
The novel is still a
brilliant look at human nature, or should I say “the animal nature” behind
socialism. In the novel, an allegory is
made when a human farmer is very harsh and mean to his animals, and does not
care for them properly. Finally, out of
desperation, the animals overthrow the farmer and take over the farm, driving
the farmer out. It is a refreshing new
feeling to the animals as they are excited to have a say in the running of the
farm. The idealism is short lived as
the pigs of the farm, who feel they are more intelligent than the other
animals, seize control of the farm through deceit and manipulation. They are working under the pretense of
having more intelligence. These pigs
represent the liberal left of a society.
They are drunk on power and want more.
The pigs begin to live opulently on the sweat of the other animals,
creating for themselves a type of upper class.
They raise a litter of puppies that grow to be large vicious dogs and
they set them in place as an SS or Gestapo-like force that brutalizes or even
executes the other animals that will not come into agreement with the pigs’
policies of a totalitarian style government.
As a result, the other animals begin to face starvation due to a lack of
food because the ruling party, the pigs, was siphoning off more than their
share of the supplies as they continued to live lavishly. The dream that was Animal Farm has gone very wrong and it is sad and frightful to say
the least. The symbolism of this novel
is now all too eerie for a savvy American to gloss over as just a children’s
story. I urge every American to get
their hands on this short novel as there are millions of copies in print and it
has been out in circulation for decades.
But as you read it, you will see that it looks as if it was written for
America as she is right now.
America has a chance
in an upcoming election to overturn this evil agenda that could leave our
Nation in utter disrepair so much so that it could take one hundred years to
remedy or rebuild. Socialism is evil,
and at all costs should be cast off, resisted, blocked, and halted in this
Nation.
One of the strongest
characteristics of socialism is the gradually increasing lack of freedom. Many Americans have begun to grow more and
more use to this in our Nation’s 200 years.
The oppressive government machine in socialism spits out its citizens,
and treads them under the wheels of the ruling elite. The evil face behind socialism can manifest itself very quickly
if the nation’s people are ignorant enough to tolerate these kinds of political
agendas for even a moment of time. Do
not follow the candidate with the seeming praiseworthy solutions for change and
for a utopia of the future; this is a façade of evil and you will ultimately
sell your liberty, even your very soul for an empty promise. The Government cannot and should not pay for
all of your problems, no matter how much you need them to or would like them
to. It cannot afford it; you will pay
it back in the end. The Government also
must not control business and manipulate it and remove the “free” enterprise
segment of our society. The opportunity,
privilege, and right of every man or woman in a free country is to own a business
that is not run or manipulated or owned by its government.
“Were
we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want
bread.” Thomas Jefferson
The result of thinking that the government
is the answer for our woes is loaded with land mines and pitfalls that are
invisible and unknown. However, history
confirms that the people will suffer with poverty and oppression and starvation
if freedom is not the course they are on.
Millions of Americans actually are not concerned whether we are
encumbered with socialistic, freedom restricting programs or not. There are also Americans who feel that full
blown Communism is the solution to problems.
There is a progression to the stripping away of liberty and freedom; of
first socialism, then totalitarianism, then fascism and/or communism. People soon forget that these forms of
government caused the murders of millions of people worldwide in the last
hundred years or so. The deception that
it can help us is birthed in Hell, and spiritual beings that are supernatural
in nature are in this Earth influencing mankind to accept this evil
doctrine. Karl Marx, the father of
Communism was demon possessed. Listen
to this quote by him: “My object in
life is to dethrone God and destroy Capitalism.” Why would anyone want to follow a person who is that ignorant or
deceived? Anyone declaring war on God
is insane or possessed, or both.
Let us learn the lesson well of the animals
in the novel, Animal Farm. Let us demonstrate a thinking power and a
prayer life that results in the wisdom worthy of our forefathers when they
founded this great nation of America.
Let us have freedom for every man, woman, and child in America. We must cast off all socialistic trends as
well as the leaders that promote and encourage them. The time is now; we no longer have the luxury to wait and see
what happens or hope that someone else will take care of it. If you are an American, it is up to you.
Justin Brooks, Main Character, and Blog Guest Writer
To read more about the novel, go to this website:
http://www.hungrynation.net
Greg Nichols
Author
