If I may Rita, I would like to post an excerpt from a piece I wrote in 2008: (Has America Been Defeated Without a Shot Being Fired?)
[I have always been a person who has looked at the glass as being half full, I have taken heart in our small victory’s of revealing political malfeasance in office only to see them remain in power. I have seen the people we have elected and believed in, go to Washington and become nothing more than washed out shell of why we elected them.. I have been naive in believing that our country would always be on the side of right and our that our Constitution would never be abridged. I, naively, believed that if we were on the edge of destruction, true patriots would emerge and fight back and save our nation. I have seen none, they are not there, all we have are politicians with their main goal is self, clutching to their power as a child would of his security blanket.]
Nicely put. We are all quite jaded by now, by the politicians. I remember being proud to be a Republican. We are made to look like rabble now, with all our fine talk about the Constitution and a strong, vibrant military.
Now we discover Cscope in our schools, which explains a lot, including my long used tag line. We have no future with schools like this.