The Road to Rediscovering America’s Identity - Part III
When Did We Start Punishing Success?
Once upon a time in America, success was something to admire. People looked at a man who
built a business from scratch and thought, “If he can do it, so can I.”
Now, the reaction is more
like, “That guy must be cheating, tax him harder!”
This isn’t just a shift in attitude—it’s a deliberate cultural rewiring.
The moment America stopped
celebrating success and started resenting it was the moment Marxist ideology sank its claws
into the American mindset.
The Marxist Playbook: Make Hard Work Look Evil
You’ve heard the lines before:
❌ “The rich don’t pay their fair share!” (Even though the top 1% already pay nearly half of all federal income taxes.)
❌ “Billionaires shouldn’t exist!” (Yet those same billionaires create jobs, industries, and technologies that make life better for everyone.)
❌ “If you’re struggling, it’s not your fault—it’s society’s fault.” (Because God forbid we acknowledge personal choices.)
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It’s straight out of the Marxist handbook: turn self-reliance into selfishness, turn ambition into
oppression, and turn success into exploitation.
The result? A culture where working hard is mocked, but demanding handouts is noble. A
system where producing nothing gets rewarded, but taking risks and building something is
punished.
A Nation of Takers Instead of Makers
The American Dream used to mean that anyone could work their way up. Today, it’s being
rewritten to mean that everyone is owed a comfortable life, regardless of effort.
Lets Take A Look
- Welfare spending is at record highs, yet poverty remains.
- Businesses are overregulated and taxed into the ground, yet people wonder why prices are high.
- College students are handed degrees in useless fields, then demand the government erase their debt when reality hits.
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None of this is by accident. When you reward dependence and punish success, you get more of
the former and less of the latter. And a nation that doesn’t reward hard work is a nation that
stops producing wealth altogether.
How Do We Fix It?
1. Stop vilifying success. Wealth isn’t evil—corruption is. But earning what you have? That’s the American way.
2. Teach responsibility over victimhood. Not everything is society’s fault. Life is about choices, and those choices matter.
3. End the war on free enterprise. More regulation, more taxes, and more government micromanagement do not create wealth—they destroy it.
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America didn’t become great because it was “fair.” It became great because it was free.
The moment we trade freedom for “fairness,” we lose both.
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What you are not changing, you are choosing.
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