Is it me or are we the least serious country in the world? I can’t remember exactly when this happened, but it seems the transition is complete. How is that, you ask?
If you think about it, we expect safety, yet we have people who want to defund and demonize the police.
We want better race relations, but many folks still support race-baiters, divisive organizations and a media that pushes division at every opportunity.
We say we want peace but fund wars and sell weapons through proxies all around the globe.
We want real heroes but find too many of them in sports and Hollywood.
We want honesty but continually fund and reelect corrupt politicians.
We say we care about children, but, according to Child Watch, the Department of Justice reports that 797,500 children were listed as missing or unaccounted for in a one-year period.
We’ve taken away the freedoms of childhood and substituted overbearing control, removing failure as an option and expanded labeling so every difficulty encountered is explained with an asterisk.
We say we care about education but undercut it at every turn — lowering standards, tolerating uncontrolled classrooms and kowtowing to every complaint by changing entire programs to appease a loud minority.
We claim to want kindness, but learning manners is a lost art, while road rage is at an all-time high.
Let’s at least be honest and admit that what we say we want and the reality of what we do and accept are light years apart.
Tim Kaczmarek
Natrona Heights