Just think about that and let it sink in a moment. The Twenty first century is a time of cell phones, renewable energy, The exploration of new galaxies, high speed rail, social media, Skype,blogs, and instant everything. The opportunity
of medical science leaps, extreme climate changes, digital everything.l, 3 d printers, and here we sit. We sit in a country of backwards thinking, and no future signals or desire to move us into the 21st Century in ways that could be the most exciting time of change imagnable. No. We are sitting here with an old man about to march into the White House with no experience as a leader, much less government official. PT Barnum disguised as Colonel Sanders wants division, a Kingdom, a harem ( obviously) and a coronation to make him King of the World who will run it 140 characters at a time via Twitter.
This truth should scare anyone. While Banana republics are trying to climb up the ladder of civility to adhere to open elections and freedom from druglords and cartels, we are sitting here in shock as we see reminders of the Civil rights movement, the reappearing of the Rebel Flag and the Standing Rock standoff with the government breaking treaties again with the Native Americans for the rush of crude oil which should have been irrelevant due to solar and wind. We have a totally divided country. You know the old saying, “ A divided house will not stand”. That will prove out in days and months to come. When people wanted to Make America Great Again, we kept asking, “ What part”? No one seemed to have an answer because democracy grows forward or is left behind.
The wars have weakened this country. The greed has weakened this country and the failure to move with the evolution of change has turned us backwards in ways we never imagined . The bottom line. That should have been Donald J Trump’s campaign slogan.
THE BOTTOM LINE today begins and ends with The Billionaire and Millionaire Club. The future of America or the future of anything cannot go backwards. We cannot recapture jobs that are no longer prosperous for a future. When people either refuse growth and want to turn the clock back, it is impossible. It is impossible without severe consequences. When life gets hard people want to return to days of carefree childhood. THIS ...THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED. Life got hard and the people were not prepared or have been unwilling to move on to the next progressive conquest of change. They are lost in a virtual world without that much person to person interaction and no sacrifices on their own part. Other western civilizations have a form of healthcare for their people. They have taxes on the well to do to compensate for the infrastructure, science, and explorations to move them into a forward direction. We have little education opportunities, no new ideas to be implemented and jobs that are outdated and can be imported easier than exported. There is no more land being made and only the water provided and with the oil companies trying to kill us all off, not much safety in that commodity. What in the world did people think about voting in a bottom line once you have lost the bottom? We cannot return to days of the industrial complex when we have robots doing jobs with more proficiency and less cost.
We cannot drill our way into prosperity when we shake the country with unstable land via man made destruction at the cost of homes, lives and health. We can’t go back to clean, fresh air when non regulation is polluting us to the point that we will look like China and the masks pretty soon. You want to know what they were thinking?
They were thinking, I want things to be like they were in the 50’s and America was high on the world stage as England lay in rubble, Japan had been conquered and soldiers got a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue. They were thinking that life was simpler, except for the POC and we can just diss them now like we did then and problem solved. This is insane thinking because the change came and there is no going back. Every generation should bring new progress to the table but I think the unraveling began in Sunday school and mega churches all over.
I believe people got too lazy to look up what their faith actually taught.
I believe people did not fact check anything.
I believe people followed the MIC into war after war without checking the facts.
I believe people got used to being dumbed down by whichever source fit their idea of democracy.
Children, naive, spoiled, irresponsible and greedy people put a check by Trump’s name because they think America is Burger King and they want to be led by a man who inherited a fortune without sacrifice and talks to them 140 characters at a time.
This is truly a sad state of affairs. I blame democrats for allowing these children to push their agendas without much of a fight, starting with the tea party. I blame independents for thinking their few votes in an unestablished party could be a protest vote at a crucial time in this republic’s history. I blame the media for pushing talking points of drama like a reality show and not fact checking and not reporting the real investigative reporting with the exception of a few journalist.
What we have here is a country falling apart, an angry electorate, about to be led by the ignorant, hateful, most Un American bunch of do nothing, entitled bunch known to man. This is the perk of growing older and wiser. ( Key word being wiser by rolling with progress) . One can see the road pretty clear ahead of them. It’s ain’t pretty. There was a diary today that said, “ What are you doing today to stop Trump”? I think America has a form of ADD. The attention span gets five minutes with no thought of tomorrow. Good luck with that.
I will honestly be surprised if we make it till next year with the leadership we see in almost every state longing to be rocked in their Mommie’s arms and Daddy to say, “ Don’t worry little child, you should have lived back in my day”. I guess we will get a taste of that attempt through Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions. ( sigh). For you have never lived in the south, you are in for some sort of major shock and awe.
Thanks for reading. Let us hope the country can be saved but it will be like labor pains and no one will get through this without some serious pushback.
I have seen the future. It is a spoiled man with a fettish for lying, dividing and hating. The future is the past.