Maxwell Muskrat's blog

For many of us, who grew up in the 40's and 50's, and who have watched the downward slide of America and American culture over the past 4 or 5 decades, today is a pivotal day, as the Senate faces a vote on Obamare, and hardly a happy day.  To not realize the dangers of our current position as a nation is to not know history.  Too many Americans today do not know history, especially those in positions of power, and they are therefore doomed to repeat many of the worst things.  And, unfortunately, because the rest of us slept through a long series of elections, and did not do enough to change the directior, we are doomed to repeat it with them.

We slept through those elections, and avoided the night meetings, and policy debates that the more liberal among us relished, and lined up to attend.  Slowly, deliberately, they have eroded our democracy, as if by a million paper cuts, and we allowed them to do it.  We did not get alarmed because we were afraid of "making waves" and being accused of a long list of political insensitivities.  So we, the silent (but still very strong) majority said nothing, and did nothing, for fear of being called bigoted, racist, or worse.  We kept our heads in the sand, and now we are being called bigoted, racist, or worse ANYWAY.  This time, just for objecting to what we consider to be empty-headed POLICIES, and LEGISLATION.  read more »