The people running the Democrat party today are not traditional Democrats like say JFK or Truman. They are much farther to the left. Democrats are saying and doing things now that would have been considered unthinkable 30 years ago by anyone other than the radicals. The hippies have come of age. Liberals call it progress.
It is that change that the right is upset about and reacting to. They are trying to hang on to the way things used to be. They have failed to adapt and they have been beaten by people who were committed to getting what they wanted and were persistant enough to see it through. Let's face it, it is just too much work to take and stay on the straight, narrow, high road. We got lazy and they kept working at it. They have won because there is no going back. Topsy tervy, free for all, if it feels good do it is the norm.
I belong to neither party but I am having a hard time seeing where we have come to as progress. Yes we got rid of slavery and institutional prejudice. We brought alcoholism, child molestation and spousal abuse out into the light so it could be recognized, dealt with and eradicated. We stopped systemic industrial pollution of our air and water. I would certainly call those things progress but we have also gotten a lot of other things that are anything but progress in my opinion.
We live in an ultra sensitive but double standard environment where a City Manger is fired for using the word niggardly in describing a budget but the offensive "N" word is used repeatedly by comedians and rappers.
We not only legalized the disposal of living human fetuses upon request but a minor is not even required to get parental permission to do it. And we actually protect Dr.s that perform third trimester abortions of viable babies for non-medical reasons. The left vehemently defends that practice but fights just as hard to abolish capital punishment and water boarding.
We have legalized the marriage of two men in a growing number of states. Beastiality and sex with minors can't be too far away. Sound rediculous? So did gay marriage 30 years ago.
We have allowed our daughters to dress, act and talk like prostitutes because that is what they see on TV and in popular magazines. Now their mothers are dressing, acting and talking like their daughters.
We are quite comfortable with the fact that lawsuits are filed at the drop of a hat for slipping on a wet floor, spilling hot coffee in your lap, hanging offensive tool calendars in the work place, not allowing a girl to join the boy scouts and so on.
A US President had oral sex with a White House Intern in the Oval Office and not only got to keep his job but became a celebrity because of it.
Hundreds of thousands of people enter this country illegally every year, driving down wages, crippling public services and bankrupting our healthcare system yet we stand by and do nothing about it.
We have an entire generation that is too proud or too good or somehow above doing jobs like cutting lawns, flipping burgers, busing tables, cleaning hotel rooms, hanging drywall or working in a meat packing plant.
Our government has grown a thousand fold from what is called for in the constitution and spent trillions of dollars that we don't have and put the debt on future generations.
We put our most dysfunctional people and families on prime time TV and call it entertainment.
We pay baseball players and movie stars a thousand times what we pay teachers, firemen and nurses.
We have institutionalized racism and gender biased though affirmative action programs.
We have allowed our politicians to create a tax code that consists of over 70,000 pages and foments fraud and class warfare.
We have troops stationed at permanent bases on foreign soil all over the world.
We have removed all of the shame out of sucking off the public teet. We encourage taking and discourage making.
We encourage dependence and discourage independence.
We are addicted to pornography, drugs, gambling, and material things more than ever.
We are fatter and more sedentary then ever before.
Cosmetic surgery, body modification and multilation is common and if you really don't like who you are you can have an operation to change your sex ad probably get some of it paid for by the government. It is not freakish, it is no big deal.
We are split along racial, social, economic, religious and sexual lines more now than ever. We are divided and weaker more now than ever.
I could go on all night but you get the point or at least some of you do. I am not afraid of change. Change is good but I am sorry I can't call all of this and a hundred other examples progress. That is what I am angry about and that is what I fear. And I blame both political parties for getting us to this point and the American people for allowing it to happen, for falling asleep at the switch, for not doing our jobs and throwing the bums out when they stepped out of line. We got distracted.
Why is it people come here and then tell us how good it was at the place they left. Why come to America and make it Europe or Mexico. If those are such good places, go there or stay there and leave us be. Actualy, why would Mexicans rather come here than fix and develop their own country?
Here is my last question. If the liberal way is such a good idea, why is it that liberal strong holds like California, Michigan, Washington DC etc are in such bad shape?
Wade
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