Well, my fellow Americans, here we are a mere 27 days out from an election that may very well prove to be one of the few remaining opportunities that those of us, who wish to save our country, have to set things in motion that will hopefully undo at least some of what has been done over the course of the last 6 years. The results of which have been disastrous!
Now try as I may to remain at least somewhat optimistic about our chances of being able to prevail in these upcoming midterms, I can’t help but feel like a salmon trying to swim upstream while trying to avoid the bears. And I wonder if things haven’t now progressed past the point where we have much of a chance to ever succeed in getting things turned around.
Because for us to achieve the level of success that we must in order to be able to stem the tide, so to speak, I fear we may be more than a little short in the number of folks needed in our all-volunteer force to get the job done. Because it’s with each passing day that I feel that we become a bit more outnumbered than we were the day before. It’s all quite depressing.
Our country is slowly being made to slip from our grasp as it becomes "fundamentally transformed" into something that is so completely unrecognizable. And yet, fewer and fewer people actually seem to care. It seems that these days people are far more concerned with how much they can collect from the government rather than limiting the government’s power.
Personally I’ve always thought that having the privilege of being able to call oneself an ‘American’ was something quite unique in this world. Because up until the last several years there has always been that certain something that set us apart from the rest of the world. That was once seen as being the primary reason people wanted to come to this country.
And I’m sure I’ll offend some when I say this, but I think we, as Americans, were actually entitled to see ourselves as being a bit better than those from other lands. But at the same time, we’ve always been willing to welcome others in if they were willing to become one of us by learning our language, obeying our laws and becoming contributing members to our society.
But these days America has been made into little more than the free-lunch wagon. It seems as if more and more wish to come here for no other reason to see what they can get in exchange for little or nothing in return. America has been made to fall a considerable distance, and yet, few of us seem to care. Patriotism and love of country seem to have all but completely vanished.
So what’s the answer? Do we raise the white flag and simply retreat and leave our country behind for the likes of Barack Obama to restructure into what would essentially be nothing more than the country formerly known as that beacon of freedom upon the world? While I may not yet be ready to surrender, I am being steadily worn-down as the battle becomes more difficult.
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