It isn’t just our nation in a sad state of affairs but our entire world for which we have long been considered the leader. Actually, it isn’t just sad, it is frightening. Yes, I know the older generations have always thought the changes were sending us to “hell in a handbasket,” as we say in the South where I grew up. Nor is it the technology so strange to us throwing us into a dither. It is the egomaniac elected to the greatest office on the planet.
We thought our constitution, the best document yet created by humankind, would protect us; however, just having it on paper is insufficient. It must be followed by those sworn to uphold it, not to mention the voters using judgment in whom they elect in the first place.
Congress is back in session following a holiday, and it is difficult to believe their time at home among their constituents puts them much in touch of what we ordinary citizens need.
Oh, have they ever heard what their rich election contributors desire! Before granting those desires, the legislators and the aforementioned leader had best figure out who is going to provide the menial labor to fulfill their exaggerated desires when few are left due to the disappearance of their basic needs of food, shelter, clothing and medical care.
Congress and the egomaniac president attempt to outdo each other in astonishing proposals awarding the rich with what they don’t need more of while the needy are penalized with elimination of what they desperately do need just to survive. This is all under the guise that the rich are rich because they all worked profiting all alone from their effort: Or their nice personalities. Of course, the poor could do the same if they were not so lazy. Ugh!
How long can we continue as a nation, much less as a democracy? It should be noted that dictatorships do not just spring up under an army showing up at the door and taking over. Incremental might be hard to detect, but it does not require a great intellect to decipher the handwriting on the wall. It is later than we think.
We have a system in place, but it works only if we use it. We must work, every one of us. Are we going to let the MAGAs led by a man and his buddies who really care nothing about them continue to outsmart us? We of the older generation might outlive the worst of it, but if we care at all about those whom we leave behind the time is now.
Regardless of which aspect of our long-developed cherished society that makes us the dream of our founders, the time for action is now. We must not fail.