If you are 18-50, you fall into what I call “Generation Z” – for zero – a generation that will soon be known as “less than zero.”  Our social fabric and the American flag have become a tattered piece of burlap.  Our judicial elections are bought off with hundreds of millions.  The laws of the land bend to the billions spent to influence the outcome of those laws.  Elections and power are definitely for sale.  We’ve got a multi-hundred-billion-dollar pornography industry, deficits, debt, a floundering education system, bankruptcy, out of control spending – and these are just a few of the reasons our society is bankrupt.  Where there is big government, there are big problems!

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”

–Gerald Ford

Does all this make you mad as hell?  Horrified?  Embarrassed?  All the above?  There has never been a society or empire in human history that has survived itself once liberalism sets in.  Fat, dumb and lazy!  That’s what we have become and Generation Zero is stuck right in the thick of it.  Just look around the country and you will see the plight that Americans face.  This isn’t the land of opportunity anymore; it’s a welfare state that can’t afford itself and can no longer afford inaction and incompetence.  We are witnessing our cities and towns disintegrating every day overrun by gang violence, child abductions and predators, murder, rape, theft, hopelessness, drugs, unemployment, and so on…  And here we are with a Congress that just can’t clean up its act and agree to put this country back on course.

“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.”

–Jesus of Nazareth

The economy is front and center and elections are coming up.  The CIA has clearly stated that the biggest threat to our national security is our economy.  But what about all the other issues we have here that are already assuring we will go the way of Rome?  Every issue du jour is politicized: for instance, sending someone to the border and publicizing it for political gain…  Why on earth are we even having a discussion about a mosque being built near Ground Zero?  Then there is the photo-op in the Gulf…  Don’t you see what’s happening?  Laws are being created and jammed through our system for political brownie points as well as to buy off voter blocks.  What on earth is wrong with us?  I just can’t help feeling embarrassed about what we have become and down right scared for our future.  We have become a second rate nation, whether anyone wants to say it or not.  Even if the economy eventually recovers, what do we do about all the other issues we are facing, not to mention the political bankruptcy and corruption of our system, leading ultimately to the breakdown of the American way of life?

We are powerless and impotent and chained to the platonic TV being fed gallons of sewage.  We all are crying out for a leader who will attack every single issue in such a massive way that our hearts can be jumpstarted.  We have already lost our minds, but if we can restore the heart again at least we will have a fighting chance.  Do we really think the people that founded and built our nation would be happy with what the country has become – decadent and weak?  No wonder much of the world is projecting our downfall, because it is not just the economy; it is the confluence of so much wrong with America that we can do nothing more than throw our hands up and just let it happen.  The people have lost all power and control over America and this just isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.