They always were cheap lying politicians, we just believed their slick pr.
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Yes, and it is so disheartening.
I have been around the block a few times, as I am going on 66, and I am usually a pretty good judge of character. But I have been always an upbeat and optimistic person.
Now, seeing the theft of the election and watching the republic lapse into a coma, I feel no hope for our future. It does not matter much for me at my age — except for when the Death Panel rules on my case — but what really breaks my heart is looking at my three grandsons and knowing that the Shining City on a Hill has crashed into the ocean, and they will not even be taught about what a great nation this once was.
I am in tears as I type what one of my older sisters said to me: We got to live in the best part of it.
It’s heartbreaking to know that the torch we had planned to pass has been extinguished, while most of the country does not even seem to know or care.
The irony is the American culture was done in by its own good intentions. The road to hell, etc.
There is no comfort in knowing the less 'compassionate' among us were right all along.