I was recently with old male classmates.  The conversation in our youth was about jobs (lack of or recently obtained), cars, girlfriends (lack of, or thinking about marrying) cars, football games, TV programs, girls… you get the picture.

Now it is health (lack of or recently overcoming a malady), getting up three times a night to go to the bathroom, vision problems, gray hair or lack of hair, wife with health problems, girlfriend with health problems, kids and grandkids.  I’m sure this is the same conversation with male friends 100 years ago with the exception of hot cars (Model T’s weren’t speed demons).

Life is crazy.  You try to keep a job and excel in your profession.  You are successful, build up a good reputation of being the “go to” person to get things done.   Then, toward retirement age people ask “when are you thinking of retiring?” But I find out they don’t care about my retirement date, just the job opening that will need to be filled.

In a corporate world, it is competitive to the point you must perform as a team player but within that capacity you have your own things to accomplish.  My participation on projects was required and many times I led the team, burden I loved, but it does wear on you year after year.  The last part of my job life was exciting as well as sometimes mundane, but I loved every minute of it.

Many of my classmates had similar jobs and responsibilities — doctors, lawyers, law enforcement, military, electricians, millwrights, machinists, factory workers, farmers.  All were needed, all were talented, all provided for families and paid their taxes, good All-American people who loved their lives and country.

Is that desire to have a good steady job by today’s youth and recent graduates?  Or is dating an old, outdated way to start a relationship or is it now just “hooking” up?  Is liberty and freedom old hat, and socialism and communism is now wanted, where every need and desire is provided by the government as long as you show loyalty to the government.  Individualism is not needed;  get in line, shut up, and don’t think!  The government will do that for you.

This old guy is watching what is happening in Portland, Seattle, New York, Detroit, Chicago, and many other places run by Democrat governors, mayors, law enforcement, city councils and things are out of control.  Stores are destroyed and looted and sometimes burned to the ground.  People are beaten. Gunfire is heard and death and destruction is everywhere.  Where are the police?  Where is the condemnation of rioters?  Where are the arrests?  Where are the Democrat representatives and senators speaking out against this civil unrest?

Will this continue if the Democrats win the presidency?  Count on it.  Will this continue if the Republicans continue in the presidency?  The Democrats will go out of their ever living minds!  Not that they use their brains much, it will be weeks of gnashing of teeth and desperate haranguing.

No matter who is elected and what party takes the House and Senate, there is and will continue to be a large chasm between Democrats and conservatives (notice I didn’t say Republicans because RINO’s comprise much of the party).  Will it ever end?  Only if the education system changes and starts teaching what is good about America and Capitalism instead of teaching how bad America is and socialism, identity politics, racial divide, climate change, Second Amendment destruction, and limiting or eliminating freedom and liberty.

God help us!  We are entering the Twilight Zone of political elections.

The Rotting of America From Within Continues…