As I indicated yesterday, when you're laid up in bed, reality sometimes slaps you in the face. I have realized that the country my ancestors helped to establish back in the 1600's, the country which they gave their guts and blood to help build into the bastion of democracy, the country that I served in the military to defend... is a thing of the past.
Poof! Just like that, it's gone and it saddens me.
This country was founded on deep-rooted Christian values and the fundamental idealism and determination to have a just and free society governed by and for its citizens. Those ideals, visions and determination have successfully led this country through a war of independence, two huge world wars and many other battles; .through feast and famine; through the Great Depression; and through plagues and pestilence.
Today, the rancor and the divisions of this country are so pervasive that our government can no longer function. Instead of being a country of strong morals and laws, we have evolved into a government of weak-hearted and self-serving aristocrats, and a complicit populace that is blindly willing to stand by and let it happen.
It's all such a charade.
We go to church not because we believe in a higher authority, but because it is a social necessity. We say things we don't mean just to be politically correct. We insist that it is inhuman to kill a man for heinous crimes, but we don't hesitate to abort innocent fetuses and sell their body parts. Politicians promise the people, but they have no intentions of living up to those promises. When citizens step out the front door of their houses, they become different people, devoid of principle and immune to the rules of morals and ethics.
No longer is a man's handshake a firm agreement; agreements must be written by lawyers and attested to by notaries; even then, we connive as to how to get out of them. We justify our transgressions on the basis that others transgress; therefore, we are entitled to transgress.
After six months of watching, hoping and praying that the new sheriff in Washington just might be successful in hammering into people's heads the notion that things need to change, that a swamp must be drained, that national unity must be achieved at all costs... I'm sick to my stomach.
I don't want to play this disgusting, putrid game of charades any more. I want off this not-so-merry-go- round. I feel as if my words on these pages have become exercises of pure futility.
In short, I've decided to walk away from it. If no one else cares about our destiny, why should I?
I have been writing five blogs and have decided to put three of them into hibernation... on the back burner. I'm changing my focus from the ulcer-production line into something more productive and agreeable. This particular blog will remain active, but be posted only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays beginning with this Wednesday.
We've become addicted to hatred, division, greed and corruption. Not even our churches and synagogues are willing to stand up and insist on morality and ethics. We've all turned our backs on our God and our heritage. We're a mindless society of zombies and spineless imbeciles... exactly what the Democrats and Republicans in Congress want us to be. And we all know that when you're dealing with addicts, you can't make any progress until they hit bottom.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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