When you saw the title of this post, you likely thought does he mean us, as in we, or does he mean the United States? The answer is yes. I meant us, as in we and I meant the United States. One in the same. Granted, I have readers all over the world (thank you for reading my blog), but they're very smart people and they know who I am talking about. What I am going to talk about today is some fundamental problems we are having in America and exactly what or who is causing them.
Let me start off with answering the question, up front. We are. Us. And us alone. We are causing many of our own problems. Example, the Russians weren't behind the Russian Hoax. We were. All told, the Russians didn't have anything to do with it. Don't you know they were having a good laugh at our expense? Embarrassing.
Inflation over the past few years. Can't blame that on anybody outside of 'us'. Was it Covid's fault? Did the coronavirus create trillions in government handouts? It made a lot of people sick but I don't think it had anything to do with writing stimulus checks. Did Mexico or Canada decide to open our borders and let millions of illegal immigrants flood our country, creating housing shortages and drug addictions? Including hardcore criminals and tons of fentanyl? Hardly. We did. It's almost embarrassing to use the pronoun we, but pronouns have been so abused lately, I don't feel that bad. Let's just say I'm being inclusive, I'm including Joe Biden and his cadre of idiots. I'm using 'we' as a very inclusive term. We caused inflation, we opened the borders. Herein lies the root causes of the self-inflicted mayhem.
Let me break them down: at the top of the list; we don't listen to each other. The framework of our system of government and society is based on civil discourse and debate. Partisan politics is causing our iron framework to rust. It has gone too far into the realm of 'us against them'. 'We' has become more singular than plural. There's more than one 'we'. "We the people" has become we the democrats, or we the republicans. Whatever the other party may say or do, it's wrong. Never mind the merits or the benefits, it's wrong because it was 'their' idea, not ours. Which brought us the current phenomenon known as TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's real. Ridiculous, but real.
Next up is accountability. When's the last time you heard a high level government official say "I take full responsibility. It was my fault." That's about as rare as rocking horse poop. I'm sure it's happened but history hasn't done well in recording it. It's as though we're all narcissists now. "Not my fault. It's you. You're the problem."
I'm going to keep this simple, because it really is. There's one more item on the list of root causes. Honesty. Telling the truth. As the prescient and perhaps genius Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) once said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." If George were alive today, witnessing the current state of affairs, if not completely stunned and speechless, he might say, "I tried to tell you...". In present day politics, sadly to say, telling the truth is an option. One not often chosen. If the truth doesn't facilitate the end game, then it'll have to wait. (Or be omitted...) Orwell was right, the day has come when the truth is revolutionary. It's not the norm anymore.
So how do we get out of this self-imposed pandemic of social corruption? I'm not one of civilization's great minds, and this is a question that even the brightest might struggle with. Back in the late eighteenth century, there was a group of men who had a vision, and a profound sense of purpose. They convened and fostered what has become a system of government that became a nonpareil. No other country in the history of the world has yet to devise a system of governance that is genuinely of the people, by the people, and for the people. They are the reason we became known as the United States of America. Let's find a way to keep it that way.
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