Great post!
I can retire in just over two years. I confess that it becomes more and more obvious to me that what the government hates is us old guys that:
1. remember how it used to be.
2. Are living on retirement and are not beholdin’ to anyone.
3. Can say whatever we want.
4. Don’t care about the consequences because we have one foot in the grave anyway (at least, that is how Paul told us to live).
It always cracks me up when people ask if you “love” america. I don’t. Not what it is today. Look at what we do around the world. Look at our forms of entertainment. Look at how we eat. Look at the size of our prison population. Look at the way we talk to each other on the internet and social media when we don’t agree. Look at how we live.
Look at america and americans as though it is not your country, but this other place across the ocean. It’s easy to see that we’ve fallen a great distance.
I love what america stands for - but what it is today? I’m reminded of the letters to the seven churches in the beginning of Revelation.