My big mistake was thinking that all of us citizens cared about our democracy. What a fool I was. What I am finding is that what today's American citizen cares about is his/herself only. The idea that we are living to protect our great nation of democratic values is just a long lost dream now. Oh don't get me wrong, we still wave our little flags and sing god bless America but we don't back that up with our actions. It is a convenient association. As long as we pretend to care about virtue that is enough for us. We won't risk anything to actually stand up for virtue. On the contrary we Americans are well satisfied to ignore anything that causes us to pull our focus off of ourselves even if for a minute or less.
It is amazing to me that the religious among us will go to great lengths to deny evolution as a means for our species' continuation but conveniently forget to realize that they themselves started out in life courageous and bold but have "changed" now into something that has less to do with being human and more to do with an evolution into a machine that only devours for the sake of it's appetite. We are in the shell of democracy where all things can be possible and yet we fail to see that shell is under attack and cracking because we are so busy with our greed. I am ashamed like never before in our citizenry. There are so few actually courageous and bold leaders left among us that I fear the end of what is best of us is at hand.
Our sacrifice in the face of danger is gone. We are now more than willing to hand the keys to our democracy to any ruthless con man who comes along. We are afraid of our own shadow. Why? Because we don't want to lose our place in line. We don't want to have to lose what advantage and privilege we have in a corrupted atmosphere of social politics and economy. We have resigned ourselves to this reality regardless if it is nefarious or life threatening. In fact most of us are willing to become subject to destroying the one true great thing we created here in America without so much as a by your leave. Our cowardice is showing and the wolves are in our house. We want others to fight our battles all the while treating the others like they are dirt beneath our feet. We are going to get what we deserve make no mistake knowing that is coming!
It is amazing to me that the religious among us will go to great lengths to deny evolution as a means for our species' continuation but conveniently forget to realize that they themselves started out in life courageous and bold but have "changed" now into something that has less to do with being human and more to do with an evolution into a machine that only devours for the sake of it's appetite. We are in the shell of democracy where all things can be possible and yet we fail to see that shell is under attack and cracking because we are so busy with our greed. I am ashamed like never before in our citizenry. There are so few actually courageous and bold leaders left among us that I fear the end of what is best of us is at hand.
Our sacrifice in the face of danger is gone. We are now more than willing to hand the keys to our democracy to any ruthless con man who comes along. We are afraid of our own shadow. Why? Because we don't want to lose our place in line. We don't want to have to lose what advantage and privilege we have in a corrupted atmosphere of social politics and economy. We have resigned ourselves to this reality regardless if it is nefarious or life threatening. In fact most of us are willing to become subject to destroying the one true great thing we created here in America without so much as a by your leave. Our cowardice is showing and the wolves are in our house. We want others to fight our battles all the while treating the others like they are dirt beneath our feet. We are going to get what we deserve make no mistake knowing that is coming!
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