As an American Rights and Responsibilities: Academic Research into the Declining Loyalties of the American Worker

By William N. Spencer

Rights and responsibilitieswhat a strange collection and connection of words. But words do mean things, and according to our great American Constitution and quite contrary to todays popular liberal democrat beliefs, we citizens really do have very many actual responsibilities (how dare we insinuate such mindless drivel?) and very few actual rights.

Among those are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessnot the right to happiness but only the freedom of opportunity to pursue happiness and only if one chooses to do so or so chooses not to do so.

Unfortunately, since the onset of modern-day liberal progressivism, a great majority of American citizens no longer accept the obligation of any national responsibility.

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William N. Spencer

A life-long advocacy of youth ministry and teaching, with over forty years of work in the unionized labor sector, both public and private, has given me a strange perspective of the American workplace. After starting college at age 51, and ending with post-graduate degrees in both Management/Leadership and Human Resources Management, I have acquired the astuteness and discernment to put these shortcomings and faults into print.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue

Introduction

Why This Subject

The Meaning of Life

The Healing Process

Up, Down, All Around

Viewing Reality

Political Psychosis

The Past, Present, or Future

Right and Wrong

What’s Ahead

PROLOGUE

M Y ORIGINAL GOAL for this small part of my remaining life, that is, for my third career cycle, initially was to be the best adjunct college professor in the world, but then, of course, along came President Obama, and American proprietary college classrooms were overfilled with a glut of unemployed public university professors with decades of experience, along with millions and millions of unemployed Americans in every other line of work who had the mistaken opinion that a mere, measly Bachelor’s Degree was going to finally make them employable and wealthy. My goal then changed to being the most read, most prolific, with the most books sold business researcher and writer in the world. Well, I am quite prolific at the writing part.

This book and my previous seven books are written somewhat in the style of a Doctoral Dissertation, trying to find reasons and answers to specific subject matter pertinent to the field of Human Resources Management, and at the same time address issues that are somewhat forefront in the news. This search for honest, truthful, and unbiased information presents a serious problem that we all face today in America, which I most vehemently agree with, which is expressed quite assiduously by Zirus and Maráz (2017): The search for information is hindered by a banality: One must know what one is looking for, or at least what questions one would like to answer. When starting research, and specifically when starting studies, i.e. as a mere beginner in academic life and the chosen scientific discipline, we usually become painfully aware just how much an efficient research process depends on prior knowledge.

Of course, for the most part, this statement is referring to the fact that most young skulls full of mush, today’s college students, do not have anywhere near enough previous/prior knowledge about much of anything to know that 75/80 percent or more of the tripe/garbage being foisted upon them by their liberal democrat pseudo-professors is not in any way, shape, or form any one bit truthful or honest information. In reality today, almost one hundred percent of the publically funded colleges and universities are nothing more than state-sponsored brain-washing/political indoctrination mills turning out thousands and thousands of blithering babbling idiots years after year.

So, yes, I am loudly and proudly asking the ‘forbidden’ political questions of the day, those that have the most affect upon hiring, recruitment, retention, and firing of employees; and through my reading, research, and writing, hopefully I am also providing the best answers available for everyone.

Much of my newly acquired world view, and my personal motivation for why I do what I do at the young age of 70, can be summed in in one applicable and appropriate quote from Danielle Laporte: When being real is your priority, the various parts of your life start to groove. Your career will begin to reflect your real passion; your living room will match your real values: your friends will fit your soul; and your wealth—of which there are many definitions—will start to measure up with your notions of freedom. Sometimes the courage to be true to yourself comes in the form of an out-loud declaration, a rebellion, or a love-drenched vow. Other times, it’s a quiet conviction that can be read in your eyes. Mighty or discreet, authenticity is the muscle that helps you shape up beliefs, policies, and restraints, and gives you the strength to do the things some say can’t be done. Being genuine is the foundation of integrity—often inconvenient and not always painless—but the only way to go if you’re here to really, truly, fully live.

And at this, I surely and truly try to do my best, travelling and vacationing away from home for almost 100 days/nights per year, taking in the sights and sounds of ‘real America’, and talking with thousands of ‘real Americans’ in all parts of our nation’s great ‘fly-over’ country. Along with my second home in Gulf Shores, Alabama, I have travelled Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana so many times that I cannot remember any more, and I hope to visit each of them again. Our country’s great National Park system, created by God and protected by man, hopefully for many future generations to come. So of course, I am a true avowed Conservationist, but since I more than anything believe in truth, fact, and reality, I am in no way a liberal ‘religion’ fake, phony, pseudo-environmentalist.

Whether it was my ‘good fortune’ or my ‘downfall’, I did not begin the quest for a college education/degree until the age of 51 years old. In some ways this was bad—by far being the truly non-traditional student, trying to relate with my ‘fellow students’ who were many years younger than my own children—but in many and most ways it was really prodigious.

After acquiring a two-year Associate Degree—in one year—in Molecular Physics, my ‘local government’ company determined that I would be a good candidate for an employer (taxpaying citizens) paid college degree in business / management; so said, so done.

Being older than three-fourths of my teachers, and with a thirty-five year history of military and federal ‘law enforcement’, I had no qualm or compunction at all to correct their many mistakes in the classroom, argue with them over their lack of workplace knowledge, their non-existent on-the-job experience, and to condemn their mis-guided and erroneous political inferences into the subject matter at hand. In actual and factual reality, I was extremely appalled at their miseducation and abject lack of honest and truthful knowledge regarding government operations and government economics—having just spent 35 years of my life on the government payroll. College was now much more fun—and also more educational—than elementary school or high school.

Ten years later, having acquired post graduate degrees in both Management/Leadership and Human Resources Management, I was ready to change the entire world. But alas and alack, most of the ‘world’ is never ready for change, and for the most part, most people bitterly fight against doing anything differently, not without kicking and screaming anyway. But in the real world of real American business, the only thing constant is change, and steadfastly maintaining the corporate status quo is equivalent to getting further and further behind.

Therefore, I try to do my part as best I can, through my writing, my teaching, my continuous learning, and my unremitting quest for truth and honesty in government, politics, economics, and in the province of corporate business.

Fortunately, I am now retired from all branches of government, federal and local, where it was almost mandatory to be a registered democrat, and to day in and day out endure the stupid inanity and insanity of democrat party liberalism—touchy-feely, do-goodism—with little or no regard to the final outcome/results from spending massive amounts of other peoples—taxpayers—money just to present the fake/phony posturing of ‘we care’, when in reality, the only thing these pompous, egotistical, self-centered liberal, pseudo-elites cared about was making and keeping themselves wealthy.

And having mentioned being a life-long ‘democrat’, and that yes, I really am still a life-long ‘liberal’, let me here include my current Webster dictionary definition of the word, liberalism. A political philosophy based on a belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, the autonomy of the individual, and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties. In other words, the exact meaning of today’s Republican Party platform and policy; and the exact opposite and antithesis of today’s Democrat Party.

Also, such it is that the world of American education, American business, the American economy, and American politics; all of these sectors are so vastly interconnected, that any small change to one side of the equation can result in a big change in the any or all of the others. And here is where I am so pumped-up, charged-up over the election of Donald John Trump to the Presidency of the United States. A President who knows business, management, hiring, firing, getting things done—the exact opposite of our 535 elected money-grubbers in congress whose only purpose in life is to lie, cheat, and steal from the average American citizen, making themselves filthy, stinking rich from their under-the-table bribe-taking, illegal vote selling, money-laundering, and mostly treasonous activities.

Of course, each and every one of these ‘Establishment", ‘inside the beltway’ types, Democrat and Republican alike do not want President Trump to succeed; for if Trump does succeed, the American people (Joe six-pack) will succeed and prosper in ways not seen in well over thirty years—since the Ronald Reagan era; and of course, these phony, imitation, pseudo-representatives will lose most of their ill-gotten revenue gains. Congress’s power today comes from controlling other people’s money—giving big money back to political donors, and taking away from those who do not donate anything to any politician. Money is Power! And not to be shared, and not to be wasted on the poor ignorant masses of faceless, nameless people in fly-over country.

But, as life and politics would have it, sometimes the ‘impossible’ does happen, this one time (only time?) the ‘people’ spoke, loudly, against the massive and arrogant corruption being openly flaunted for decades by both the democrat and republican elected so-called, pseudo-representatives.

One quick explanation as to what really happened in the November 2016 election, and yes, it started with the candidacy and coronation of Barack Obama in January 2009. A great many voters of both parties voted for Obama in 2008 for one, and only one reason, to prove to themselves, and to the country that they were not racists. A great many of these cross-over voters did not vote for Obama in 2012—and many, such as myself did not vote for the equally ‘liberal’ republican candidate either—to solely attest to the fact that we were not politically and socio-economically ‘stupid’. But alas, with the aid of millions of illegal alien votes, our Kenyan-born, Indonesian raised, Godless, heathen Muslim was reelected as U.S. President.

The point being, for many years (decades) the democrat party—both nationally and at the state and local levels—was/is an organization of despotic rule, with no room for any individual thought or individual dissention; toe the line, obey the party mandates, about anything and everything, or be gone. While conversely, the Republican Party has almost always been the ‘big tent’ party, inviting and welcoming any and all people, dissention, dialog, and discussion of every major and important issue facing the American citizenry. This scenario of fractured loyalties and consistency has cost them numerous elections and office-holders throughout the years. But, what goes around comes around. The tide seemingly has turned.

The most biased and sexist liberal—the average American democrat male, who uses most women for nothing more than his own sexual pleasure before discarding them—can think of himself as a highly-enlightened, all-caring feminist, while the greediest of liberal—who are each and all very good at giving away anyone’s money other than their own—can think of himself as extremely magnanimously. This is because liberals define themselves as being compassionate, open minded, kind, pro-science and ooh so intelligent; yet not at all based on their limited actions or minimal achievements, but based solely on their group-think and party-based ideology. This in and of itself, is one of the most psychologically appealing aspects of the modern democrat party liberal, because it allows an individual to be an absolute awful, low-life person, while still thinking of themselves as being better than anyone or everyone else.

Nothing exemplifies the mainstream liberal democrat better than the example of Harvey Weinstein, and the wonderful and enlightened actions of Bill Cosby preceding this. Almost every A-list actor or actress in Hollywood knew what was going on with this low-life sleaze-ball, whether on the ‘casting couch’ or in the ‘executive suite’, just business as usual. These people gave millions of dollars to the Clinton Crime family and hundreds of other democrat party politicians. Why else did prosecutors in New York and California—who knew full well what was happening—refuse to take any action? Money is power, and power is money; both coming and going, givers and takers, buyers and sellers of influence and control.

This phenomenon is further illustrated by the mainstream media’s blatant double standard concerning rapist and sexual harassers Bill Clinton, and his protégé, Senator Al Franken, when compared to the media attention of Alabama Judge Roy Moore. Well excuse me, but Roy Moore’s supposed wrong actions were more than 40 years ago—back when he was a democrat—before he found God, before he found religion, and before he became a Republican. I guess anything that he did in the past, or did even today would have been alright and acceptable, if he was still a registered Democrat?

One other glaring example also helps to prove this point. Remember the man hailed by liberals and the mainstream media as the Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy—the murderer of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick? His truly bizarre, off the wall, sexual harassment antics were widely known long before he passed away in 2009 yet there was no condemnation of him and, of course, no call for him to leave the Senate. GQ magazine published an article about the waitress sandwich incident involving both Kennedy and fellow senator Chris Dodd in their February 1990 edition which was reprinted on April 14, 2016. It reveals in excruciating detail the extremely humiliating sexual harassment of a waitress, yet no liberal voice was raised against Kennedy (or Dodd) even though the incident was common knowledge inside the ‘circle of power’.

This past presidential cycle showed the inside-the-beltway democrat party power brokers’ true colors. With the majority of average ordinary democrat voters preferring ‘Crazy Bernie’ as their presidential choice, and the money-grubbing, stealing, thieving DNC controllers supporting ‘crooked, lying’ Hillary, the stage was set for dissention, turmoil, and a loss.

The great majority of George Soros’ mega-multi-million dollar pet projects over the past eight years all seem to have failed; starting with the ‘years in the planning’ ‘Fake spontaneous’ ‘Occupy Wall Street’ up to the most recent pro-fascist movements of ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Antifa’; the average, ordinary democrat voters were just being pushed around, and pushed away. Disregarded and disgusted with the party leadership, they had their say simply by not going to the polls and by not voting, just as I did, choosing not to vote.

Hey, wait, you say, how can I compare fascism with Black Lives Matter and Antifa? Quite simply and easily, for they really and truly are one and the same.

Fascist/Communist/Socialist/American liberal democrat, they are each and all so closely related to be almost identical; as such, they seek the exact same constituents, seek control of the same socio-economic strata, and they each can only thrive and succeed by a complete and total distortion and disregard for all facts and truth. Like turning politics—or one-sided, unprovable, pseudo-scientific ideology—into a pseudo-religion; such as man-made global warming, PETA, and the whole ‘fake news’ ‘save the ecology’ clap-trap.

In agreement with me on this matter is author Jonah Goldberg (2007): "Modern liberalism is the off-spring of twentieth-century progressivism, which in turn shares intellectual roots with European Fascism. In Europe, this communitarian impulse expressed itself in political movements that were nationalist, racist, militarist, and expansionist. In the United States the movement known elsewhere as fascism or Nazism took the form of progressivism—a softer form of totalitarianism that, while still nationalistic, and militarist in its crusading forms and outlook, was more in keeping with American culture. It was, in short, a kind of liberal fascism.

Insofar as that we insistently hammer upon the dangers of these liberal fascist themes and tendencies to percolate unopposed through our politics, economies, and culture, it is incumbent to anticipate a few of the objections that might be raised by even the most well-disposed and open-minded reader. Who cares about the origin of these ideas if the way they are being applied is benign and even beneficial? What’s so bad about a little progress and pragmatism, taken in moderation?

I have repeatedly made it clear that that modern liberals are not cartoonish Nazi villains. These people are not storm troopers or commissars; they are campus student-life directors, diversity managers, child psychologists, and anti-smoking crusaders. The danger they pose isn’t existential or Orwellian. The real threat is that the promise of American life will be frittered away for a bag of magic beans, called security. There is a difference between literal security—defending the public against external and illegal violence—and the figurative, quasi-religious security promised by the Third Way. Many progressives seem to think that we can transform America into a vast college campus, where food, shelter, and recreation are all provided for us, and the only crime is to mean to somebody else, particularly a minority."

Another concurring communiqué (from someone who wishes to be left alone, I guess) calling themselves Anonymous Author (2014): ObamaCare, immigration reform, global warming; these three Democrat agendas have been proven to be nothing more than Democrat drives to steal more in taxes by duping people into supporting them. Dysfunctional liberal thinking leads them to believe Obama is honest despite all evidence proving he’s a pathological liar fooling Obamabots into giving him their money. If you believe Obama is honest, if you believe any Democrat policy is to help people and not just suck taxes out of them, then you should have yourself tested.

As I always admit, yes, I am still a Democrat, a democrat of the past, a democrat of JFK and Hubert Humphrey, a democrat who believed in doing what was best for everyone in America, and not just for their own personal self-enrichment like each and every democrat elected in the past 30 years. Herbert London (2017) adds his two cents worth: Where is the Democratic Party? Parties have served the nation well; albeit exceptions abound. Politics may not be bean bag, but it wasn’t a blood-sport until recently. This is the path to a political nightmare in which crushing the opposition is all that counts

Politics is no longer a dispute of ideology over how best to do what is right and good for the people of our country. At one time, being elected to national office was considered to be a calling to ‘public service’, any more today, it is nothing more than legal permission, or pre-pardoning for the act of ‘public theft’. And the uninformed majority of citizens (democrats) keep begging to be abused and stolen from even more so every day.

Safe spaces, conflict-free zones, a world-wide political agenda of catering to brain-dead, mind-numbed, democrat-party indoctrinated snowflakes; no truth, no facts, where symbolism over substance decides every dispute and disagreement.

Have you noticed how the mainstream media (and not just national media, but even now at local levels) reports only stories that support the Democrat party agenda? Breathless reporters offer absolutely no significant proof, and use unverified (made up) information supplied by anonymous sources (the guy or gal in the next cubicle over) to substantiate story lines fabricated about President Trump.

Have you also noticed that whenever President Trump mispronounces or misuses a word (as he does quite frequently with his passionate ad-lib exhortations) in any of his speeches or tweets, the mainstream media are in the forefront accusing ‘him’ of ‘lying’, while they are spewing forth blatant unfathomable and unbelievable absurd ‘real lies’?

Or as is still in the forefront of all American headlines still today: A fake and phony report (dossier), bought and paid for by the Hillary campaign—by means of hiring one law firm that hired and second law firm that then hired a denounced and demoted ex-British Intelligence agent—that erroneously, disingenuously and duplicitously insinuates a pre-election connection between Trump