wonderworker: What happens when it is too late to affect policy in the voting booth?Some say that day is here,or even that it has been for a long time.If you think so then name the Who and When.
i had to consider this question for a bit...
i went back in history til present..
pre and post civil war..
carpetbaggers.. ghettos...
the industrial revolution..
the great depression...
the korean and viet nam wars...
the civil rights movement..
the hippie revolution...
sex drugs and rock and roll...
nixon,,, clinton , bush, and present..
big oil, big business,big welfare,
failed borders, and bailouts...
desperately trying to name
the who and the when...
although i do not believe it is too late,
the patient is sick.
a reality check is in order...
this is my answer...
those of us with alcoholics
or drug addicts will hear this i hope..
we are a nation of good people...
in a way we want to be superheros
of all the wrongs in the world...
we also want our creature comports...
the enemies of democracies
know this and so they know
our weakness...
when an illness shows itself in america..
some package is presented,
with the promise of making it go away.
it seems good, it seems easy...
only 1 cent added to our taxes...
ahhhh.. why not...
over and over we have has a people
in the name of "doing the right thing"
done the wrong things..
instead of making the country healthy...
we have enabled its illnesses ..
the founding fathers crafted documents
and laws, that created a country
which championed a strong individual...
took off the collar and leash
of big government...
and with that freedom to grow...
america grew...
as we grew in strength we also grew in sickness...
and how the sick cried out...
and the hearts of americans
like the hearts of well intentioned
family members of addicts...
we bailed out, hired attorneys...
threw money at problems...
begged the government to make the
ugly things go away...
the price...
our freedoms...
the guilty
the people....
the cure....
tough issues do not go away
without pain...and honesty...
and pray........................