Is This What's Wrong with America?

Is this what's wrong with America?  As far as I know we still have the founding documents, to the chagrin of those trying to usurp their authority for a kinder, gentler police state.  No, America is doing just fine.  As for the people and the leadership however, this is another story, and they are what's wrong in America.

The Constitution, the Bill of Rights and, for that matter, the Declaration of Independence were never intended to be open to interpretation.  Really?  Not according to the University of Virginia Library site (The Constitution and other Founding Documents):

"The Federalist, commonly referred to as the Federalist Papers, is a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time. 

The Federalist Papers were written and published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution, which was drafted in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. In lobbying for adoption of the Constitution over the existing Articles of Confederation, the essays explain particular provisions of the Constitution in detail. For this reason, and because Hamilton and Madison were each members of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers are often used today to help interpret the intentions of those drafting the Constitution."

I have a copy of The Federalist Papers, as well as Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and The Constitution of the United States, but, then, I also fly a flag outside of my house 24/7/365.  This all makes me less than desirable by those perpetually offended individuals who will disagree with me no matter what I say.  Dollars to doughnuts they do not have a copy of these documents, nor do they care to have one.  Yet, these same people will rail, yea or nay, on gay marriage, gun control, Christianity, atheism, and, more recently, the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia (no, it is not the Confederate flag).  It seems these people, who know so little about the founding of our great nation, also know very little about the history of our nation that followed, and this is no surprise as we keep rewriting our history to reflect the latest politically correct stance.  Better not to teach history than to be caught teaching the wrong history.  God forbid we leave history for what it is so we can actually learn something from it.  Better we bury the bad parts so we can relive them later like the senseless children we seem satisfied to remain.

What is wrong in America?  Congress is out of control and no longer answers to the people whom they supposedly represent.  Christianity and morality are under attack from all sides by the offended.  The Supreme Court is out of control and no longer recognizes the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the rights of the individual states.  Law has no meaning as it continues to be disregarded by attorneys and the courts at every turn and have allowed the minority to become the new majority.  This country now runs by minority rule, and that has nothing to do with the color of one's skin, as much as the perpetually offended would like it to.  We have no secured borders, so we really have no secured country.  Everybody from south of the border is running to el Norte in order to escape their own country's political and economic disasters, only to vote for the same things here that caused the disasters they just escaped from, all the while they are being paid to be here by... us!  When we become a poverty stricken suburb of Mexico, where will they all run to next, Canada?

But there is a damning side to being an American.  There is a damning, immoral, guilt of complicity to murder that every American must lay claim to.  We turn our heads away, we cry foul, we broadcast it, and Congress votes on it, yet it continues.  Late term abortion is again in the news.  Oh, I'm sorry.  Harvesting baby body parts after murdering a viable, living baby, is back in the news.  Doctors, do no harm!  But, murdering living babies is okay by us, as long as we can harvest their organs.  Hey, someone has to make a buck, right?  Well, shame on us, shame on all of us.  

This is just a taste of what's wrong in America.  Bruce Jenner and Tim Tebow are just superus sores we scratch till they bleed because we are satisfied to whine and complain instead of standing up for our rights, taking back our country, and healing what truly ails us as a people.  What ails us?  If you have to ask, what does it say about you as a conscientious American?  What does it say about you as a patriot?  What does it say about you as an intelligent, moral, righteous member of civilization?  Civilized?  Compared to what, ISIS?  Killing babies can be a fine line between medical science and insane heresy.  Tebow is a Christian, get over it.  If you don't like hearing about God, turn the channel.  Jenner is now a woman, get over it, he isn't even attractive.  I'd feel worse for his family, but... really?  How screwed up can one family get?

Maybe we should stop whining about trivial bullshit and get our heads screwed on straight.  There are more important things rotting this country from the inside out than are in our worst nightmares.

It is passed time to wake up.

Editor's Note 

(re: disclaimer cum "get out of jail free" card) 

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We all fall from grace, some more often than others; it is part of being human. God's test for us is what we do afterward, and what we learn from the experience.

Frank Anthony Villari (aka, Pastor Tony)

Pastor Tony is founder of the Congregation for Religious Tolerance and author/editor of the Congregation's official blog site, "The Path."