Yeah.
When I was a kid and teen, I thought Walter Cronkite was an honest, thoughtful, American Patriot.
Eventually I grew out of it.
Most of our fellow citizens don’t
I look back with some nostalgia on my teenage and childhood days and the innocent view that I had of America. I have seen since then that there are many people in power who are not really nice people, they lie and deceive us and this was the way that they kept their power over us for a long time. I don’t like many of the things that I see now but I am seeing the truth even if it is not pretty. One thing for sure, even when seeing all the muck in our government it certainly gives me much more respect for our Founding Fathers who understood that some day we would encounter these problems and that we would need the Constitution. I feel that what we are going through today is like another 1776, we are going through our own American Revolution in our own way.
WE have to help people around us to accept the ugly realities of what America has become without wanting to slice their wrists. We have to show them reality while giving them hope.