AMERICA GONE DARK

I love my country but my faith in the republic founded by great men such as Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Washington is gone. We are so far removed from the ideas set forth by these revolutionaries that if they were alive I do believe they would lower their heads in disgust. Was their conflict of ideas and ideals in their time? Of course there was and always will be, but what differs now from then are the individuals who serve us.

In the early years of this country the individuals that served this country spent less time in New York, Philadelphia and later Washington, D.C. and more time back with the people of their state. They were much closer in tune to the concerns and needs of their constituents. Now we have individuals who spend time with their big dollar donors, spend little time in their home states, and quite honestly have little to no knowledge of what live for the average American is like. This is a disease that has been spreading through our nation since the early 1900’s.

More recently however our nation has gone dark. By going dark I specifically mean that intelligence has succumbed to fear and haste reactions. Policies have been formed from those fears. America was awoken to the cruel reality of the world early on the morning of September 11, 2001 and it the darkness has been spreading ever since. President G. W. Bush had a great opportunity out of that disaster to reunite this country and instead choose to use it to drive us forward into an aggressive war with a nation that really had nothing to do with the events of September 11, 2001. However, with a few exceptions the Democrats need to zip their lips on the criticism of this choice as well, because it was their haste and lack of reason as well that authorized the President to take military action against Iraq. As for the current administration, they have merely traded one war for another--the only change here is the location of the war. The American people still act on the fear of another attack and until that fear can be subdued rational thought will not be returned.

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