What Lies Ahead

I'm not very prone to looking really far into the future and laying plans out. When I do, I expect them to stay the same. Which is why I tend to freak out if those plans go awry.

As this first year out of school has progressed, I've been witnessing a growing concern - the future of America. Not that I think I have any control over our society as a whole, but I am concerned about where we're choosing to take this country. The fact that we've even begun to entertain the idea of a president having the power to determine how long he should be in charge of our country bothers me. George Washington set the precedent for a reason.

What bothers me more is that we're allowing immoral, corrupt, horribly sadistic people the power to run this country. And it's gone farther than that. It's beginning to reach into our lives and personal choices. We're looking at the beginning of the USSR in America and rather than learn from history, we're blatantly ignoring it.

I've already written a blog about the civil war I think our country is currently in. This concern bridges off of that a bit. I had originally meant that post to be what it was - the obvious problem of the word religion in today's society. But this is bigger than that. We, as a culture, have engaged ourselves in civil war. The artillery hasn't broken out yet, but goodness, it's evident in our speech. Because of that, we've got warring viewpoints.

Conservatives are seen as these ancient people that need to accept that the culture has 'changed to a better thing' to many liberals - that they need to stop being uptight, religious and become more accepting and tolerant. To many conservatives, liberals are immoral, selfish, greedy, lazy people that constantly ask for hand-outs and will turn on their own mother.

If we aren't careful and don't wake up, then we're going to be in a lot of trouble. And this isn't just for me. This is for the very thing America is supposed to be about. America is supposed to be the "home of the free" and the "land of the brave"; the land "under God". So where are you, free ones? Do you feel free? If you do, then you've allowed yourselves to think that freedom is sitting around, doing nothing. Freedom is never easy and it's always something to fight for.

One day, we're gonna wake up and see a very different America than that of the history books. When that day comes, where will you be standing, and with whom will you have put your allegiance? 'Cause at the end of the road there's only one Judge, and He's the Judge of Forever.

I know what freedom is. Do you?