I am both hopeful and helpless. I feel like the elected leaders are out of touch and won’t listen to the voice of the American people. I wrote my congressman and told him I was against a certain bill and told him why. He said he’d take my comments into consideration. He voted for it. I wrote again complaining about it. He basically said that I didn’t really understand what the bill was about and that I should leave such “weighty matters of state” to him.

The last bastion of any remnants of the Constitution are in the Supreme Court and they only vote along party lines. Forget about reviewing laws or executive orders for Constitutionality. Forget about reminding the American people that there is such a thing.

But I am still hopeful. I see a fall. I see a restructuring. I can only pray that it will be such that we will still maintain the Constitution. Anything else and the entire world will fall into the dark ages again.

The Constitution is what has provided the entire world (not just America) with all the blessings of modern society. Every modern invention great and small has come as a direct result of the freedoms the Constitution has provided us. Because America prospered, the entire world prospered.

If any restructuring occurs it must be one that includes a restoration of the Constitution. This was a gift to We the People, not only from our Founding Fathers, but from the Lord Himself to “secure the BLESSINGS of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity”. Without it, the entire world is lost into another dark age. But it will be a dark age where the powerful have nuclear weapons. If that prospect doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what will.

I am not so hopeless to believe that the Lord would abandon us just yet. And I have not yet seen all the signs that signal the end of the world. We may think we have the Church to fall back on. But think again. Why do you think we’ve been taught preparedness for 150 years?

Do we recall the words of a prophet telling us to get out of debt and store a little food?

America is on the verge of being unable to return to former glory, and it is not dominance, but innovation that is needed, which recognizes that America is no longer the only super power by virtue of the numbers, much less her demographics.

Smart policies not sloppy ones is what she requires now, and will for the near future, until the point where India and China settle into a global strategy they seek.

Since that could be 20 years from now, the welfare of both elders and the current American workforce depends upon the right decisions now regardless of whether the corrupt politicians who got us into this mess continue to barter for their own survival while the rest of America goes down the tubes.

“Do you think America will reach it’s Tri Centennial as a Nation?”

I don’t remember the exact figure, but a majority of the people said “No”.

“When all you have in your tool box is a hammer, everything you see begins to look like a nail.”

I don’t remember who said that, but it sure does fit our government today.

The one thing I would add to the post is a comment that the development of the problems we now face are an accumulation of leadership failings that cut across party lines and eras. So many opinions that I hear now simply blame it all on Bush. While he has his share, the other leaders (legislative, executive, and judicial) have all contributed.

How did it come to this? I think moving away from the Lord and moving away from respect for the rule of law (specifically the Constitution) are the main reasons. Those of us supporting adherence to Constitutional law are often derided for not being compassionate. Is it compassionate to give something you don’t have, or to make a promise you can’t fulfill? This is a key reason why the government welfare state cannot survive. Charity and welfare is best done at the individual and local levels where there is accountability on both sides.