Dear editor:
America is unique. The national character built upon after our independence kept us unique. We've changed, and not for the better.
All the fears of the visionary founding Fathers are taking place as they warned. We make much of being like the rest of the world. The rest of the world wanted to be like us, and could not. We are striving ever downward. Systematically we have loosened the binding ties of religion, family units, responsibility, and honor.
We have given it up for comfort and lack of pressure to do what is right. For steady pay and easy work. Cradle to grave rights without cost, without risk, without contribution. All we need do is parrot the regime's talking points and complaints about people who have the audacity to think independently.
Over the last five decades we have followed every step of every socialist, communist and fascist regime in the world. Unlike most, we have not had armed revolution to do so. We simply put people who hate America in charge of teaching our children, writing our laws, and enforcing our laws. It seems a sure path to tenure in a major university is to have been a domestic terrorist. If you make the right connections, you get appointed as an advisor to the President. If you stay in office long enough, you can lie to the public on TV and defy them to do anything about it. Politicians care for each other. Not their constituents. The supreme court was never intended to run the country. Congress is too lazy to do more than pack pork into badly needed bills.
Can we get out of this spiral without a war between the classes, parties, races or come together against a common enemy? Maybe. Not likely, not easy. Nearly impossible. But that's what Americans are about. Doing the impossible. At least we were once. What are we about now? Entertainment? Saving the world at the expense of our own country? We are not the melting pot applauded by our ancestors. We are becoming divided in the name of diversity. Lied to about the necessity of being assimilated into an American culture. The vast majority giving up their proven ethics for the language, customs, lawlessness of the few is not nation building. It is the tearing down of the most admired culture to be replaced by nihilism and hedonism. We were handed a great nation built from great sacrifice. We failed to keep it. Our great experiment may go down in history as a great failure.
RL Morrison
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