Thank you for sharing. Thoughtful and thought-provoking vanity..Two thumbs up.
BUMP
I think your vanity is great and you express exactly the way I feel today.
We have almost no chance of changing what American has become. We can hope for tomorrow, that we could vote these people out, but I think we see now that we are outnumbered. We've lost control of our schools, media, and now our government.
I remember in 2008 we all thought that with the elections in 2010 we would rise back up and right the course ... didn't happen. We said the same thing in 2012, and again, the same result.
We can keep kicking the can down the road and pretend that we will prevail with our votes, but, let's face it, that isn't going to happen.
I am not being a defeatist, I am being realistic, we got complacent and now we are in the minority and getting smaller every day.
Any ideas ... how do we change this?
Denial is the first stage of grief as they say. And there are many in the conservative establishment - the same folks who assured us that Romney would win - who are going to try spin tales of a better future.
You are correct. America as we knew it cannot be saved. A nation is a fragile thing and we are no longer one nation. This has tremendous implications for the future, the parameters of which we cannot yet fathom.
The tides of history-—yeas
The tides that tell us that once a country discovers they can vote themselves free money that country dies.
That is what we were fighting and we lost.
I tried hard I spoke to many people, friends and acquaintenances, but if they refused to listen to their Church and voted for murder of innocents, why would they listen to me? If they refuse to recognise that queers are sick how can I argue with that? If they think we can borrow our way out of debt, they don’t have a brain to begin with.
Here’s an idea, maybe the nature of things has been set to the period of England’s history where the religious pilgrims set out to find a new place to call there own. These pilgrimages have happened through out history. Maybe it’s time for the next great pilgrimage. Maybe we could start a colony on the ocean, the tech exists to make it work. No ones going to the moon anymore, maybe it’s time to build an off shore corporation to lead the new great migration to the moon. Or maybe it’s time to build the next great comunications array like the matrix, cut the government out all together. Hope springs eternal.