IT'S UNBELIEVABLE

 

IT’S UNBELIEVABLE 

If five years ago a writer had written a novel that gave a detailed description of what has happened in the United States it would have become a science fiction novel that most Americans would not have read.  And those who did read it would have denied that such things could happen in America. 

The word that best describes what has happened in the last decade in America is UNBELIEVABLE. It is unbelievable that a man with less than average intellect could nearly become an authoritative dictator in the United States. It is unbelievable that this same man could gain control of America’s evangelical churches and lead them to endorse unadulterated evils. It is unbelievable that one man could take control of the Republican Party and lead it to adopt policies that the party spent years opposing.  It is unbelievable that one man could dominate the minds of men and women in elected positions, and cause them to become the greatest ass-lickers the human race has ever known. 

It is also unbelievable that a man could direct an insurrection against the nation’s capital and within less than an hour 147 members of the Congress would stand up and vote to support him. It is unbelievable that after a man has broken more laws than any other American that 45 members of the Senate would refuse to convict him. Something terrible has happened to the United States, and historians will spend decades attempting to explain it. 

There are some people who cannot handle money. Money burns a hole in their pocket and they will spend every dime they can get their hands on. When a fool comes in contact with large sums of money, it only increases the extreme actions of a fool. We have all heard of people who won the lottery and received millions of dollars and within two years were bankrupt. The same is true about freedoms. Excess of anything requires, “self control.” 

It is possible that Americans have enjoyed so many freedoms for so long, that they do not know how to manager being free?  It is also possible that enjoying too many freedoms, for too long, has produced boredom. Americans have developed a culture of conflict that with the absence of conflict life is boring.  On the other hand, many Americans think their freedoms give them the right to deny others of freedoms. 

It seems as if Americans want another Civil War and Republicans say they are ready. Perhaps Americans cannot be satisfied unless service men and women are being killed in battle.  It is also true that living in the greatest nation on the planet is not sufficient for many.  It seems as if they are dead set on tearing down the empire in order to establish the excitement of building a new one. Americans quarrel with each other to create excitement. Spouses engage in extra-marital affairs because making-up creates excitement in the love making process?  Americans have become so bored that they have developed discord as way of life that is void of happiness. 

In expressing freedoms, Americans have driven themselves to the brink of confusion until they need, and in some cases desire, a dictator to whip then in order. When a government of, for, and by, the people, becomes dominated by a large number of ignorant voters, democracy is no longer a viable form of government.  Americans have created a pathetic society of war-mongering idiots who have never experienced the happiness that comes with living in peace.