Are we as Americans in 2025 children or adults? Are we participants in our democracy or are we merely feeding at the trough of government? It would seem that in our time, the adults among us are few. No matter the income level, social status or education, all of us are intent on chomping down at the welfare office and the stock market. Our cries for more and more are baby talk and our politicians in Washington earn their mansions by dishing out the baby food. This is the now America.
Blame it on
the politicians if you must but we every day Americans have to change or we die.
We have to grow up. We must become givers who want the greater good, the elusive
national good. The ancient Roman empire faced a decision point as monumental as
ours and failed. Two hundred and fifty years of growth and then two hundred and
fifty years of fractured dreams that ended in national suicide. Are we so
special that we can somehow buck the trend of history?
2026 will be our 250th year anniversary as a nation.
Let’s get practical. Most of America welcomes all the MAGA optimism about the future of we the people and deservedly so. Optimism has the power to influence history in the short term but optimism is not enough, optimism is not hope. Hope is long-term, hope is adult stuff. Hope says we are about paying the price now for a better future. Hope says we will feed the kids first and be content with the leftovers. We adults must join together and be better American participants.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
