Quote:I was listening to a song I really like that kind of illustrates the problems in america today


nofx - the decline.  Its an 18 minute punk song dealing with the struggles of the current american period, even though its 20 years old.


The battle I fear we are losing is the country being what it has been in the past.  Not police vs blacks, or rich vs poor, or thought vs faith.  The battle is united vs separate.  All the progress that has been made since 1968 is falling apart.  We are about to be in a presidential election season where you can almost bet on riots at all conventions.  Cities will bleed and extremists on all sides will cause suffering to achieve what?  A nation that becomes a police state to remain intact?  A nation who takes away its citizens freedoms to assure their safety?

 

I recall a 2008 speech by the president (and I use that term loosely) where he believed that this country needed a national police force, more powerful than the current military and answering to none other than the president.

 

I find it very ironic that so many groups are being pitted against one another. It is happening along multiple lines such as race, religion, political affiliation, and others which are too many to mention. We as a country are coming into an election cycle which more closely resembles a civil war than an electorate process.

 

Furthermore, could there be two worse candidates for office come November? Is this by design? Will this be the election where people say that it just isn't worth putting either into office, opening the door for the current president to stay in power with a policing force accountable to only him?

 

There was a lot of talk about a "fundamental transformation"  of this country. Is this the beginning of that transformation? Sure, most would laugh off the notion as a conspiracy theory, but don't so many of the current events support such a theory?

 

The next months coming up will be very telling of where this country is headed.

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