(#5909) Do we Americans deserve the high enlightenment of democracy?

      Since again voting in a dictator type person as our leader it would appear that we Americans are not able to desire freedom and liberty. We are left with the laziness of obedience and conformity. It takes an imagination created out of hardship to fully understand the democracy we are currently letting a conman take from us. So the fact that too many of us are not steeled in the strength of honorable convictions; it seems that our place in history as a mighty democratic nation is over. I suppose it is the value we deserve as a nation that is woeful at distinguishing between freedom and subjugation. Read Allegory of the Cave.
     I find that it is haunting to me anyway that the many of us have fallen short of knowing the heart and soul of noble intention. We do not see how we are so callous in our thinking nor in our acts. We just only seem to know what is good for us as a person instead of we as a nation. We have been told for so long by the meanest within our society that we are not worthy and that any little table scrap is sufficient for our survival. Yet those who tell us so cannot wait to steal every valuable in existence to satisfy their own lust and greed. Instead of us having a society that gives all the opportunity to succeed with creativity and merit we settle for highwaymen who demand we only have respect for them.
     I can tell you this much. We are losing our democracy but we haven't lost it yet. But that day of finally losing it all is closer now than ever. The institutions we had to protect our democracy are being infiltrated by those who would sabotage them. It is now only a matter of time before the plan to take over our nation is to be implemented. Crushing the soul of democracy is not without pain and the pain we are all starting to feel is just the beginning of it. We are all to some degree afraid and rightly so. But we should not to let our fear freeze us when all we still have to do is act. The truth of this time in our American nation is that we are being challenged by a liar/conman. What we do next with our response to that challenge will determine who we become as a nation.