The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of regulated industries. The agency’s chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday that he circulated draft rules he says will “preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet.” No statement could better reflect the gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama administration policies.

My God, we live in dangerous times! The caption above, taken from the Washington Times Editorial “Wave Goodbye to Internet Freedom” this past Thursday reflects way more than a disconnect  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/2/wave-goodbye-to-internet-freedom/ . It reveals a government already beyond gluttony, having devoured major industries and a staggering percentage of the private sector. It reveals the most dangerous predator of all closing in on the jugular of its prey. For what greater artery of liberty is there than the Internet?

But I feel as though I am living in two entirely different Americas at the moment. One America readies its children for another day at school, while it prepares for another day at the office, wondering whether the stock market will be up or down…as it always has. I’ve just finished watching Meet the Press and I think they are all clearly speaking to that America.

The other America is the chronic alcoholic who has finally and mercifully hit bottom after completely destroying the relationships of every one around them. Only now is this America able to finally see its own reflection, free of lies and distortions created by the enabler’s lens.

The former rolls its eyes at the latter, castigating it for its partisan extremism while pointing out the gains in the stock market and the upbeat comments of some prize-winning economist. The latter wants desperately to fall into place and accept the story line of the day, but is simply unable to dismiss the laws of physics and the lessons of history.

On this very day one network show (Meet the Press) speaks to the former through the mouths of the same old pundits arguing about whether  taxes should go up or down, while another network (Fox & Friends) speaks to the latter about a world where the elites place more value on themselves than on the importance of balancing a checkbook as they chronicle lawmakers in a state (CA) with a $6 Billion deficit vote themselves a $5 Million fleet of luxury cars at the expense of adult dental care and healthcare for the children of low-income families.

So regardless of the America you happen to be living in at the moment, if you listen carefully you can actually hear the voice of statism dispensing its “definition of insanity” opiate on one channel. And on the other you can actually see the developing portrait of that voice. The question of the day for us all: Can we restore the American Dream without the former becoming the latter? http://www.songoftruth.org/forum/topic/show?id=4612011%3ATopic%3A83313&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic