America has changed it's outlook on how it deals with the less fortunate. Instead of creating a society that secures the future of all of it's citizens to at minimum a basic right to exist, Americans in their voting patterns are now willing to stop being compassionate toward it's own citizens and have chosen to let any and all live or die on their own efforts. A strategy by Republicans to reflect a policy that has little to no heart in it. A very cold and calculating philosophy of survival of the fittest where advantage and privilege go to those who can afford it. Not a society just based upon merit but the ability to be cunning and devious in most all ways to achieve it. The current ambivalence in our voting patterns also suggest that selfishness is the new milieu. It saddens me and also strikes an anger within me that such callousness could be the product of centuries of struggle to attain a free and enlightened society. We have been hijacked by a capitalistic commercialism that has effectively nullified our founding principles of democracy. When the idea of one being more important than the many, as the case is now, the dominant determination then is that we are no longer we. Instead of being Americans we are just an American who lives in proximity to other Americans as long as they can fend and survive for themselves. Not a welcoming society but a society based solely upon the idea that you are just a resource to be used and discarded once squeezed of all utility. Profit is the new model for life and although I still hope that equality and fairness may someday make a comeback I am not encouraged at this writing. Capitalism is an economic subset of commerce, yet we have allowed the masters of capitalism to infiltrate our democracy as a replacement for our democracy. When capitalistic corporations become people and money is their voice you can be sure to know that being human is less a commodity than you think.
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