THANX, DS, RIGHT ON TARGET ~

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This is spot on and worth reading.  This can’t be all right as so many people want to come here.  This is still the greatest country in the world but seems to be headed in a negative direction.  It’s easy to see the negatives but what I want to know is how we can repair this country without violence.  Just make sure you always vote to try and counter the dumb direction we are headed.

Those of us who were part of the Baby Boom generation, now in our

60s, 70s, or older, no longer recognize the nation in which we grew

up. We are strangers in a land that gets stranger by the day.

We believed in the American dream. We worked hard, paid our taxes, and

obeyed the law —even laws we thought were idiotic, We married and had

children. Today’s young adults cohabit and have pets.

We struggled to raise families. Some of us went to war, like our

fathers and grandfathers before us. We thought that when we grew old,

there would be more for us – more than alienation.

Most of us don’t recognize Biden’s America. Patriotism has become

passe. Our military is led by men who are social workers and

politically correct hacks.  They can’t fight, but they’re great at

getting soldiers to use preferred pronouns and combating imaginary

racism in the ranks.

Giant corporations have replaced individual enterprises, which – in

many cases – have been taxed and regulated out of existence.

Government bureaucrats and corporate executives are like the pigs and

men at the end of Orwell’s Animal Farm.

We look in vain for a Ronald Reagan, a Lincoln, or Teddy Roosevelt. We

find corrupt clowns like wizened Nancy Pelosi, Commissar Ocasio-Cortez

(the Cuban pinup girl selling socialist snake oil), and our president

– a cranky septuagenarian slipping noisily into senility.

If we’re white, we’re told that we are responsible for every problem

that plagues people of color. That’s right, we’re to blame for the

roughly 70% of black children born out of wedlock (we forced their

parents to behave irresponsibly), just as cops are to blame for the

deaths of thugs who threaten their lives.

Savages who burn down cities are hailed as heroes and celebrated as

warriors for social justice. But misguided middle-class citizens,

among them veterans, who trespassed in the Capitol 14 months ago are

branded traitors and insurgents.

Mayors take down statues of Washington and Columbus and commissioned

murals of George Floyd. If you’re white, you’re also responsible for

slavery, segregation, the Wounded Knee massacre and Japanese Americans

interned during World War II. Racism is in our blood, they tell us.

Remember, throughout human history, racism has never existed anywhere

but here.

Forget racial minorities. Now, we’re told that there are “sexual

minorities” — that people who used to be considered odd are

oppressed, that a man who thinks he’s a woman in fact is a woman – and

is entitled to use the ladies’ room with our granddaughters.

And if we refuse to accept this bizarre fantasy, we are hateful. By

“despoiling the earth,” we’re also responsible for climate change. If

we end up paying $7-a-gallon for gas –well, it’s our fault.

What passes for entertainment is sickening – all blood and gore,

sadistic killers, aliens who pop out of people’s stomachs, and

monsters in various guises.  We search in vain for contemporary movies

with characters we can admire or at least care about. So we retreat to

the cinema of the 40s and 50s on TCM.

On top of living in an unrecognizable country, we can’t even afford to

live here anymore. You need a second mortgage to buy a steak. A

hamburger and fries at McDonald’s is a gourmet feast. Filling up the

tank is agonizing. Paying confiscatory taxes marks us as serfs.

Inflation is at a 40-year high, and politicians tell us it’s because

the government isn’t spending enough.

Our parents could retire at 65, in the mortgage-free home they bought

in their 30s. We’re still working at 75. Retirement is a distant

dream.

We’re working to provide benefits for illegal aliens, addicts, and

loons who camp and defecate on the streets.

Many of us are the grandchildren of immigrants, a fact of which we are

proud. Our people helped to build this country. But we witness with

horror the tide flowing across our southern border unimpeded.

The middle class views them as criminals, gang members, and mooches.

The Democratic party sees them as voters.

We can’t defend our own borders but are expected to defend those of

distant lands.

This used to be an English-speaking country. Now its ballots are in 20

languages, court interpreters and press one for Serbo-Croatian.

Our feeble president (who’s been on the federal teat for half a

century) is unable to perform his Constitutional duties but has

successfully waged war on domestic energy production.

We went from energy independence to beggars with a gas can in a matter

of months. The corpse that walks says climate change is the biggest

threat to our national security – along with transphobia.

Washington sputters about Putin’s war on Ukraine but imports 670,000

barrels of Russian oil a day. While he lets pipelines rust and our

oil, coal and natural gas remain in the ground, Biden pleads with the

Saudis to pump more – and is thinking about imports from the Marxists

of Venezuela and the jihadists of Iran, both Russian allies.

Apparently, oil from anywhere outside the U.S. doesn’t pollute.

Officeholders for life treat us like mentally-challenged children.

They snicker at those who pay their self-awarded, exorbitant,

salaries and pensions.

So, we limp along into old age, too proud to go on the dole and too

stubborn to just give up. Besides, surrendering now would be a

betrayal of the America that once was.