They've Trained Us Not To Care...

I'm afraid that like trained seals, we dutifully pay our "voluntary" taxes, and occasionally vote for whomever.  If it doesn't inconvenience us too much...

Sometimes even using the "eenie, meenie" method.  That's assuming we even bother.  But normally we don't really give a sh*t who's running things.  Assuming our paychecks keep on cashing.  And Armageddon has yet to occur. 

(What's that Armageddon thing, again?) 

Because we've been trained not to.  Not to care.  Not be become involved.  Not to participate.  Just to send in your entirely "voluntary" fees and charges and taxes, local, city, township, county, state and Federal, and then shut the Hell up.  

Who do you think you are?  We Ivy League ideologues don't need no input from you, damned citizen!

I've just summed up the ennui which has befallen America.  An enormous cloud.  We're simply too successful.  Too big.  Too rich.  Too powerful.      

                         So was Rome.

The famed 17th Century French economist and philosopher Alexis de Toqueville, a yuuuge fan of America (remember, they were in the process of overthrowing Louweee), offered up his opinion.  He said America would only fail when its politicians learned they could vote to attain, and then keep elective office using their constituents' money.  That would be your money, fellow Patriots.

           We've surpassed that milestone.

Most of the historians among us know we're over the top of the hill (our own Mid-Life Crisis) and racing downward at breakneck speed.  Toward our own Day of Reckoning.  And perhaps our own Doom.  

My Father was an observer of people.  One day he sat me down and said, "You know, the most dangerous man in the world is a man who don't know what he don't know."  We have a bunch of 40 year-old Yale grads running our Government who've never managed a Subway, telling us what kinds of cars we are permitted to drive and stoves we can use.  As if in a MARKET ECONOMY we should need their permission.  Or require it!  

Psshaaaww!  (That's pronounced "Pisssshaw!) 

They know our current generation is the very first in our Country's entire history that hasn't had to fight for our freedom.  The very first whose citizens have not been required to face conscription.  And then show up to serve.  The very first more worried about their Instagram posts than the safety of their Country.  And because the half of our Country in the Big Blue Cities isn't being taught civics and history and their obligations to their Country, they don't know what they don't know.  Dangerously.  

Just a thought here, but I fought for you so we wouldn't have to be here.

                 And yet we're HERE!