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The Great Experiment known as the United States of America and everything it was founded upon will soon come to an end. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness has been redefined. Life, as precious as it is, is not valued at all in this country. Abortions are common place, the murder rate where freedoms are restricted is horrible, our police have become targets, our politicians lie to cover their own failures and our justice system is beyond repair at this point. Liberty, defined as freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control, has been slipping through our fingers for more than a century now (see 17th amendment). For years the federal government has gone to great lengths to hold a figurative gun to the state governments in such a way that can't be described as anything but bribery and extortion. Our federal government has now become more sinister and intrusive than the monarchies that our founders fought to escape from. The pursuit of happiness, the single most twisted and distorted of the three, is quite possibly the single biggest contributor to our downfall. It has been redefined, not for everyone to have the same opportunities, but more for everyone to have the same results regardless of the personal decisions people make in their lives. No longer are those who become successful and attain wealth through risk, hard work and determination looked up to, they are now scorned for being productive members of society (things like creating jobs, paying more than their fair share of taxes, etc...) and simply having too much "stuff". The pursuit of happiness now means free housing, free phones, free health care, free food and zero responsibility to provide for themselves and their families.
These aren't things that I just came to realize, these have been a serious problem for quite some time now and they're getting worse. What I did come to realize is that the average America voter is absolutely clueless. I'd lost faith in the liberals a long, long time ago and I've just lost faith in "conservatives", especially in my home state. I've been saying for a long time that both the Democrats and the Republicans are destroying this country but the Democrats are standing on the gas pedal while the Republicans are easing into the throttle. This is no longer the case after recent events. Republican voters have lost sight of any principles that they once held and have abandoned them for hate, celebrity and turning a blind eye to the truth. They are just as bad, if not worse, than the Democrats.
I'm sure some of you are saying that "more people voted against Donald Trump than voted for him". While this is true, the fact that enough people have been duped into voting for someone with no experience in political office, a liberal in so many ways prior to 2015 (he is the new face of a "flip flopper") and someone with an incredibly short fuse is disturbing - and it should be to everyone regardless of political lean. And the fact that we're now left with a choice of a celebrity who isn't qualified to hold the office and either a crooked politician who lies constantly or a socialist who wants to give everything away and doesn't understand economics and how they work. How did we get to this point?
We have become a nation of entitled cry babies with no desire to stand on our own two feet. Are we all entitled? No. Are we all cry babies? No. Do we all live off the government titt? No, but too many of us do and the number keeps growing and growing and growing. The growth in the number of "makers" is being outpaced by the number of "takers". This will ultimately lead to a disaster.
I no longer hold out hope that we can turn this country around. I believe we are past the "tipping point" and what happened in Indiana yesterday solidified that belief for me. I have changed my lean to Independent because there aren't enough true conservatives left in the Republican party. I have not considered myself a Republican for years now, but they were the lesser of the two majorevils parties in this country. I don't know if I can bring myself to vote for Trump or if this will be the first year I vote for a third party candidate. Trump is a wildcard and he could be the best thing since Ronald Reagan or the worst President of all-time, but he would still be a better choice than the alternative from the Democratic ticket. How sad is it that our candidates for POTUS get worse and worse every election? The answer - the American people keep getting dumber and dumber every year and it's caught up to us. This once great nation of ours will turn into a European nightmare along the lines of Greece. The last great hope for freedom and independence on the planet has been on life support for some time now. Sooner or later, the plug is going to be pulled and it will be the ignorant American voting public that will do it. Only God can help us now because we are no longer capable of helping ourselves.
These aren't things that I just came to realize, these have been a serious problem for quite some time now and they're getting worse. What I did come to realize is that the average America voter is absolutely clueless. I'd lost faith in the liberals a long, long time ago and I've just lost faith in "conservatives", especially in my home state. I've been saying for a long time that both the Democrats and the Republicans are destroying this country but the Democrats are standing on the gas pedal while the Republicans are easing into the throttle. This is no longer the case after recent events. Republican voters have lost sight of any principles that they once held and have abandoned them for hate, celebrity and turning a blind eye to the truth. They are just as bad, if not worse, than the Democrats.
I'm sure some of you are saying that "more people voted against Donald Trump than voted for him". While this is true, the fact that enough people have been duped into voting for someone with no experience in political office, a liberal in so many ways prior to 2015 (he is the new face of a "flip flopper") and someone with an incredibly short fuse is disturbing - and it should be to everyone regardless of political lean. And the fact that we're now left with a choice of a celebrity who isn't qualified to hold the office and either a crooked politician who lies constantly or a socialist who wants to give everything away and doesn't understand economics and how they work. How did we get to this point?
We have become a nation of entitled cry babies with no desire to stand on our own two feet. Are we all entitled? No. Are we all cry babies? No. Do we all live off the government titt? No, but too many of us do and the number keeps growing and growing and growing. The growth in the number of "makers" is being outpaced by the number of "takers". This will ultimately lead to a disaster.
I no longer hold out hope that we can turn this country around. I believe we are past the "tipping point" and what happened in Indiana yesterday solidified that belief for me. I have changed my lean to Independent because there aren't enough true conservatives left in the Republican party. I have not considered myself a Republican for years now, but they were the lesser of the two major