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It's sad, isn't it? I'm fifty-seven years old, married, have a step-son and daughter-in-law, two grandsons and a bunch of nieces and nephews. Never in my life did I think America would come to be what it is today. I don't recognize it anymore. The America I grew up in vanished. My mother-in-law is ninety-two. She survived the Great Depression and WW2(my late-father-in-law was a Marine, wounded twice he survived Saipan and Iwo Jima). “Mama’’ is a cheerful, church-going Catholic who prays the Rosary everyday(sometimes I do too.) Recently in a moment of candor she said “In all my years I've never seen anything as bad as things are now’’.When the Greatest Generation starts worrying, I worry too. I'm afraid my grandkids and my nieces and nephews won't live in the America I did. Hate to be down about it, really, but my heart is just about broken. We don't have a country so much anymore as more of a nearly lawless, unassimilated boarding house for the Third World which enters our country in violation of the law and then loudly demands the protection of it and from it and just as arrogantly demands access to the public treasury because it declares itself ‘’entitled’’ to it. Raise honest objection to this and one is called a ‘’racist’’. I was once a liberal who became a conservative but conservatism seems to be dying on the vine. If this party loses a third national election, it's all over. I'm at peace. I really don't care so much anymore what happens. If the Good Lord comes for me tonight or tomorrow, I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm afraid my grandkids and my nieces and nephews won't live in the America I did. Hate to be down about it, really, but my heart is just about broken. We don't have a country so much anymore as more of a nearly lawless, unassimilated boarding house for the Third World which enters our country in violation of the law and then loudly demands the protection of it and from it and just as arrogantly demands access to the public treasury because it declares itself ‘’entitled’’ to it. Raise honest objection to this and one is called a ‘’racist’’.

Hate to say it, but I think the America being passed on to your grandkids, nieces and nephews is already different from the one we grew up in. I know it's definitely different from the one my parents grew up in (dad, stepdad and several uncles all served in WWII/Korea and in all branches of the service except the Coast Guard). Although I miss them, in a way I'm thankful they're not here to see what they fought for has become.