Sure we have our problems. But everyone seems to think that this country "owes" them something. It doesn't. John F. Kennedy (even being the idiot he was) said something intelligent, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".
Everything in life has two ends, no matter what it is:
Up : Down
Left : Right
Inside : Outside
Top : Bottom
Good : Bad
Front : Back
etc...
Well, America has the same. We created a country with ideals that made sense and we created a Constitution to guarantee protection and rights regarding those ideals. They were good ones too. Freedom of Speech, Rights to bare arms, etc. etc.
However, along with all of these rights comes the pitfalls to go with them. We gave so much liberty to individuals and groups that it opened a door for abuse. And when people like Madalyn Murray O'Hair came along and destroyed many of the infrastructures that this country was founded on, this country's slow demise began.
The original principles adopted by our forefathers were not abandoned by people like Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower or George Bush. The United States (like most other countries) was founded on a religion. And religion (in this case Christianity) played a key role for years in maintaining morality and family unity (both are key things to maintaining a strong nation). Because when you allow for "too much" diversity, you open the door to rebellion. This rebellious attitude spreads like wildfire, and soon people think that they "should be able to do whatever and whenever they want". The infrastructure crumbles and a nation weakens.
Now, I am not talking about allowing people the freedoms to do what they please in their own lives. I am referring to those who then take it too far and think that the government should not have its own standards and ideology (the ones our forefathers also wanted to protect).
I agree that the U.S. has "fallen from grace" so to speak. Obama was right when he said this is a time for change. However, the change he proposes is not what this country needs. We don't need new ideology. We need to revert back to what worked.
My Father always told me, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it!" Too many times this country has been "fixed" when it wasn't broken to begin with. So, now we have duct tape holding it together where it's not needed and it's strangling the life right out of it.
It's time to take the duct tape off, clean up the gummy residue it has left and polish America to it's original luster.
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