America? It's Become a Silly Little Place

The United States of America used to be a fearsome power but one with a soft touch. Peoples of the world looked to this great nation as that "shining city on a hill" and came here by the millions to become the next new American citizen. Producing its greatness were great men and in memory of those great men landmarks, and worthy institutions were named after them by a proud and thankful people.

We had Washington City named for the father of our country. We had schools and libraries named after the first man of the people, Andrew Jackson. We had more schools and later highways named after the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Yet more schools and highways were named after the man that won WWII for us, Dwight Eisenhower. An Airport was named after the great communicator, Ronald Reagan.

These great men helped build this country and contributed to its greatness in their own special ways. Their contributions can neither be slighted nor forgotten. These were important men, great men that led this wondrous nation...

Because of the incredibly incompetence and childlike decision making capability of both our voters and those for whom they vote, I simply HAD to have a copy of Idiocracy as an example of where we are today.

“It’s got electrolites! It’s what plants crave!”

On a side note, even when the SCOTUS makes what are OBVIOUSLY the correct and constitutional ruling, it is usually a 5-4 decision. That means that almost half of the supreme court are idiots - or worse.

Plagiarizing myself from elsewhwere:

The shallow, arrogant, superficial, selfish, insidious and spitefully anti-establishment ‘counter culture’ which the MSM and Hollywood glamorize and which they forever impose upon Americans has NOW come home to roost.

The only way for this mass of Americans to comprehend the damage which has been done and the danger we are in is for them to look at their children and ask themselves if they would change anything.

For unthinking or reactionary people, no other assessment will be as dramatic.

I don’t have any children, but if one of the many truly lost and soulless kids I see running around was mine, I would be heart broken. Their mindless preoccupation with the strictly personal, superficial, material and temporary is frightening.

This is the petri dish where Liberals grow their ‘voter base’.

A good article. It has to disturb any thinking person that we have such an abysmal shortage of great men and women in public life. I look at so many of the people who are running the country and wonder how the hell they ever managed to get where they are.

That bleeds over into an impoverishment of our national accomplishments. NASA is gutted and turned into group therapy for the Muslims. We can’t “plug the damned hole.” We get “solutions” to problems that only make the problems worse.

In its own way, just as disturbing, as you mention, are the trivialities with which so many of us burn up our days. You mention LeBron James. I heard on the radio a Cleveland fan, a now-former James fan, who was in tears and claimed that this was “the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.” The worst thing? He’s either been very lucky, or it’s a sad commentary on his life.

The one place I would differ with you is in your use of “silly” to describe the situation. For me, “sad” works better.

I still manage to kindle up some optimism. Last week I drove the length of Illinois, a place that has been home to my family for two centuries. I like the farm fields and the truck stops and the mom-and-pop businesses I saw along the way, and I felt that in this swath of America, replicated in so many places across the continent, a peace, a strength, and a quiet confidence. That’s what it going to bring us back.

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