I have only been around for 57 of those years but I must say that although we are established in many common ways our country and it's web of interconnections are at a vulnerable point. Not from some enemy who seeks to destroy us, although some actually do, but from internal dissent about what is right and proper for our country to focus it's policies on. We also have some lingering and festering resentments toward ourselves that defies inclusiveness. The tolerances of our better natures are being tested by those who wish to see divides of our peoples instead of the melting pot of souls we had heralded as one of our hallmarks. We have hit a bump in the road in our progress on virtue and have taken a pause and in some cases a step back on our natural journey forward. It is fear and it is greed that allows for some of us to be misguided about the future and until we can move past the stereotypes of our antiquated animal aggression and embrace the hope and nobility of the reasoned logic of our surroundings, we are at greater risk of advancing the principles of democracy that our fore-parents so earnestly and dearly fought to attain for us. Our democracy is our greatest prize here in America and anything else that strips it of it's purpose or interprets it in ways that devalues it's equality, justice and fairness is to be punished in the light of it's nefarious motive. We are destined to be the caretakers of our amazing society but not as a granted privilege but as a duty to our history and the future of our next generations.
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