I sit in amazement watching our President reside over the most insane group of people I’ve ever seen in the history of my life. Day after day it takes my breath away watching it all. I’m not the smartest person in the country or even the smartest guy in my Church. However, rocket science is not required here. No my friends, only a soul or a conscience is all that is needed to have a peripheral common sense look.

I guess that is what scares me. Where is all the common sense? Where are all the smart people? Where are the leaders that will stand up and face this juggernaut head on and fight it? I’m waiting. I am so waiting, but nothing yet. My soul stirs when I think of it all. I care. That has to be my problem. I care. I care about the sanctity of life. I care about the quality of our lives. I just care. 

It is so clear to me and a handful of others where this country is headed and there seems to be this free fall feeling that a lot of us get. Recently we heard this term “free fall” in reference to our economy. They said that feeling was over. What they didn’t say is that the free fall feeling a lot of us are feeling, goes way beyond economics. It extends to the feeling we are having over freedom and the direction of our country is going. Watching something like NBC fall into the toilet. Watching what we grew up with and how it all has changed for the worse. To live in a country that no longer has anything that resembles a free press. Watching my President fire one CEO after the other and still holding on to this distant thought that I live in freedom. Watching my President bow and shake hands with all my country’s enemies and listening  to the justification of all this.

I must admit, I have always been a rock. I have always been a defender of this country and its people. However, I’m starting to apperceive that there is about half of this country that would be happier with another form of government. Happier with less freedom for the common good of all of us, in their minds. I try to process this all in my head, but my heart gets in the way and I mourn. I want to fight. I want to stop it all, but I feel so helpless. The deck is stacked so against people like me. It is a horrible feeling.

I have realized that the day of Tip O’ Neill and Ronald Reagan sitting down together to solve the country’s problems and than later having a beer together is over. It is clear to me now that there are so many people in our country who I will never see eye to eye with, that the difference is so vast that maybe we should consider parting ways like the Governor of Texas just recently lamented and had all the press paint him as some nut to even utter the words. They think he is the crazy one. It is all turned upside down and my head spins worrying about it.

I love freedom. I love this country. I love the free market with its winners and losers. I love where I came from, but I’m watching it slip away. I am standing on top of a mountain screaming, “God, please don’t forsake us! Please save us from all this! Please send us a leader to lead us out of this bondage.”  Then I turn on the TV and see a beauty queen destroyed because she said a man should marry a woman. 

Now I know we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto.  There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.       

C. Rich

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