I look at the madness of our world and I despair. I despair at the injustices that are heaped upon our heads, and I weep at political indifference to those injustices, ignored due to compromise. I look at our leaders and I do not see right or left, but only a boot of either type, stamping down hard upon the necks of Americans as we try our best to navigate the waters of our daily lives, raising our children to be patriots and servants of mankind in the eyes of God.
Yeats said, "...the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..." and he spoke truth. Truth in his time and a truth that remains in our time. When a government becomes self-sustaining without the aid of the people, it becomes incumbent upon the people to vocalize their dissent in as vehement a manner as possible.
The political process has created an incestuous quagmire in which our politicians have embroiled themselves and has given birth to an abomination of politics. Our Founding Fathers could not have conceived that their great experiment in democracy would mutate into such a gross monstrosity!
We've become desensitized to the political process and have deified the right and the left to the point of excluding any other possible candidates for higher office. For true power to be utilized in the beltway, one must be a follower of the majority parties.
The true minority in our beloved country is the silent majority. We are on the cusp of a political paradigm shift in the world, and it will come at the point of a blade or it will come at the fingertips of the voter. Either way, the world we wake up to tomorrow will forever change in the next few years, and we are the generation that must weather that change in order for our children to have a future.
We were called Generation X ... the lazy losers, those who would sit back and watch the world revolve around us. I do not see a generation of X'ers, but a generation of family-focused patriots who want more than anything to instill the values and morality that create a strong family unit and a strong community.
I look into the eyes of my children and I do not despair. I see the love in my heart reflected back at me hundred fold, and I see a future bright with hope and confidence.
