Perhaps a bit premature but it has gotten very cold out and seems as if it is already Winter.  The winter of our discontent.

What in the good Lord’s name has happened to this country?  What in His still good name is still happening?  I guess that, being Americans, we always believe that “it just can’t happen, not here, not to us.”  Nope- we are Americans and have survived it all so we can certainly survive the worst threat yet to confront us- and that is us.

I believe that this was all seen long ago.  I believe that those slave-holding, out-of-date, boring old white guys might just have had it right all along.  Seems they tried to do a lot to help protect us from ourselves but seems they might not have done enough.

We have come so far from those boring old days.  Today we are enlightened and oh, so continental and cool.

So what if what we owe continues to grow at such an outlandish pace- it certainly is sustainable for who would tell the U.S. that “we won’t invest in you any longer” or “we would like the money you owe us now please.”  Couldn’t happen, not to us.

So what if the federal government completely controls all that we do- what we eat, where we live, where we work or go to school, what doctor we see and what hospital we are allowed to visit, who or what we marry or if we marry, how many kids we can have and how they are to be treated and raised and fed and taught, what pets we can or cannot have, what music and movies we are allowed to enjoy, what vehicles we are permitted to drive, what shoe wear we can don, what diseases we are allowed to be inoculated for or against, what time we get up, what time we go to sleep, what sports we can play, what songs we can sing, what water we can drink, how many showers we can take, how many flushes of the toilet are allowed per day, how many square feet per person we are allowed to have where we live, who we are to vote for, what information we can glean, what color we must be for certain things, who we can help and who we cannot, who or what we can worship and where and when, what is up, what is down, what is left and what is right…if we are allowed to be born and just when it is that we should die.

This just couldn’t happen here, not to us.

So what if our moral framework is allowed to be anything, anywhere, and anytime.  As long as Hollywood and MTV approve.  Anything can be said or done as long as it does not contain the words “God” or “Christmas” or any such similar, antiquated and now forbidden words.

God does not matter anymore.  Not here, not to us.

Funny.  I used to be religious; I used to believe in the better part of our natures.  Now I just sit back and watch it all fading away.

Couldn’t happen, not here, not to us. 

Funny.  A lot of it already has.