I don't know that I'm going to be able to post daily for awhile, but this is a start. Laying in a hospital bed while attached to multitudes of electronic leads, oxygen and nitrogen while unable to move or watch TV gives you plenty of time to contemplate your navel.... as well as your history and the real state of the Union.
It strikes me that we Americans have traditionally participated in our government: we've paid attention to what is being said and done in Washington and we've not hesitated to voice our opinions to our Congressional representatives and our friends and relatives. But, when I examine the current state of the Union, I discover that Americans have by-and-large decided that they don't want to be bothered with it all anymore. We've become desensitized to the flagrant corruption, the lies and the scandals to the point that it is no longer even politically correct to discuss our government or its leaders in an open forum.
It's as if half the country is disgusted with what our government has become and the other half has just simply given up and surrendered. So, Clinton has been obstructing truth and justice and hiding and deleting emails; Barack is going to take his Iranian deal to the United Nations and bypass the Senate; the I.R.S. is still targeting people and organizations and the N.S.A. has bugged our computers and smart phones. Yawn.
Some of us gripe and complain and still manage to squeeze out an occasional email to our Congressman, but most of us get up and walk out of the room when the news comes on. I submit to you that we have surrendered our rights to a government of the people, by the people and for the people and that by that surrender we have set ourselves up to enable Krushchev's prediction to come true: we are a nation that will fall from within.
In fact, we have reached that very precipice and we seem bound and determined to jump in.
Well, somebody... some great American patriot... needs to do something positive pretty damned soon or we're all going to become toast.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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