Nah. The more you push the citizenry, the more they will push back. I still call another CW within the next 20 years.
I'm wondering what kind of miracle will hold it off for another year; forget the other nineteen.
KEEPING A SPARK FROM BECOMING A BLAZE
After watching the State of the Union Address several weeks ago, I am convinced more than ever that our president and most of the congress are divisive, and continue to drive a wedge between the government and the governed. The elected and appointed politicos do not seem to understand what the people want, need, or more importantly are willing to accept. We are constantly being urinated on and told that it is raining.
There is an ever growing and very serious disconnect between the government and the governed. There is a resentment today that goes both ways unlike I have ever seen.
Being an amateur historian, I research and read all the time. Recently I have been reading the biographies of many of the founding fathers. The underlying complaint of every one of them was the total disconnect between the American subjects and their governing monarchy at that time. I am seeing the same paradigm setting up in our republic between the elected government and us, the American citizens. This is not a question of political persuasions or parties because both have greatly disappointed the electorate time after time. Disconnect and frustration is what caused the American Revolution.
Once the disconnect is serious enough, that is when the real trouble will begin. Even though during the 1700’s the government and the populace was separated ideologically by political beliefs and physically by an ocean, today we are separated from government by an ideology and thought and belief process that is much wider than any ocean or physical barrier.
Some years ago I told my children that I thought there would be another American revolution in their children’s lifetime unless things changed. Just last year I revised my prediction to say it would probably occur during my children’s lifetime. I now feel that it could happen in my lifetime if things do not change very soon, and I am 61 years old.
I am not an anarchist, nor a revolutionary, and I am not a proponent of violence, but I fear unless things change soon some “spark” will ignite a second revolutionary process. That spark could be the disregard by the government of a Bill of Rights issue, adoption of extremely unpopular programs or laws, or simply continuing “business as usual”. Keeping that process political rather than physical will be a very difficult task once the populace have been pushed too far and have lost all faith in our present system, and the spark is fanned into a full blaze.
This is not the government that I learned about in high school civics class. Pray that our elected officials see the need to reconnect with us before it is too late and we lose our beloved country forever.