MY OPINION OF WHERE OUR WORLD IS GOING – AUGUST 2020

Will (Ariel) Durant once said “No great civilization has ever been conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within”. Prophetic, no? Where does it apply today. I guess unless you reside under a rock. You can see an example of this prophesy playing out across the border from us. It breaks my heart and shakes my values to their core. I have always been a huge supporter of Democracy in the USA. Additionally I have tried as much as I could to follow, what I thought were the ideals of this nation. One being, that at the time of an election you were free to express your opinion by the “vote”.

Following, that after you had made your vote, win or lose, then, you spent the next 4 years supporting your President. As well as, the elected government no matter whose side won and who was in control of what.

I always thought that basically all Americans strove for and lived with the same understanding of democracy. It now appears that this is not now, and probably never was, true. I also always thought that everyone was entitled to free speech. And that whether or not you agreed with their opinion. All Americans were willing to fight to the death to protect your right to your free speech and opinion. Also, as is painfully obvious, that is not and probably never was true. I had no idea of the depth of the division in a country that I always considered the bastion of democracy. What we are seeing now is just not a difference of political leaning. It is rather, a hate filled, venom spewing anger. That in my opinion is about to tear this country apart from within.

I always thought an election was fought in the last six months of the fourth year in office. Not “everyday” from the first day after a new election, at the risk of making 4 years of government inoperable and ineffective. My heart cries out and my mind tells me, “how naive you are and were”. Perhaps it has always been like this, and I was just too naive to realize it. Lord help us all.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I HAVE WRITTEN THIS POST KNOWING THAT FOR SURE I WILL NOT BE AGREED WITH BY MORE THAN 1/2 OF MY READERS, HOWEVER MY INTENT IS ONLY TO LET MY BOTTLED UP CONFUSION AND DISILLUSIONMENT HAVE A SAY, BEFORE, WHAT I SEE AS, THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY BY THOSE THAT HAVE LOST SIGHT OF, OR NEVER REALLY BELIEVED IN, WHAT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY MEANT TO THE WORLD. MY HEART IS HEAVY.