Strengthening America

The right wing gets pissed amazingly off when one of the left-leaning pundits dares to suggest that Americans are dumb. I personally tend to believe that we are not dumb, but rather breathtakingly, staggeringly ignorant and apathetic.

But, by the same token, with each generation being more pampered and privileged than the last, we are becoming intellectually weaker. With that comes in a drop in consideration for others that is amazingly dangerous for us as a society. I'm not proud of the fact that my generation is less intelligent and wise than my parent's generation, but I will admit. And the generation that now rules the world, the young people in their twenties and thirties, is even LESS intelligent and less wise. This is a troubling trend.

Think of it this way... and I don't apply this simply to my children's generation, but to my generation as well. A lot of this applies.

When it comes to food, we want the best and the healthiest and we want to pay as close to nothing as possible for it, and lose weight while we're eating it without doing any exercise.

We want the best schools, the best libraries, the best police force and firefighters and the best military on the planet, and we want it without paying any taxes.

We want to be able to text or talk on our cellphones wherever we want, including while driving, at the library, at the movies, in public restrooms, at restaurants and during sex, without anyone else getting pissed off about it or commenting on our conversation, which has also become (against their will) THEIR conversation.

We want America to be a strong nation, but want to do it without adequately educating our kids or providing food, housing or medical care to the less fortunate among us.

We have to change this trend, brothers and sisters. Mr. Bush, in one of his state of the union addresses, posed the question “Will we end well...?” Personally, I hope that we WON'T end, but we also can't survive and continue in the direction that we're going.

My parents worked hard to insure that I didn't inherit the prejudices that burdened them. I struggled not to pass on any bad attitudes that I had to my kids.

Educate yourselves. Educate your kids. Open your hearts, your minds and your wallets to help strengthen America, politically, physically, intellectually and emotionally.

Peace.

Rev. Randal