Participate in the nonsense or remain on the sidelines as the mockers and blockers throw pejorative hoping it will stick or somehow be perceived, cool or comedic.  The allure of good one-up-man-ship draws the worst from humanity, pleading come drown others with dung, mud and tar all the while making yourself appear the oracle.  We have exchanged real compromise for moments of microphoneya, we have sold our birthright for sour soup and greenery and we have sidestepped Truth by proclaiming ourselves uninvolved parading that tired excuse that we didn’t know God’s will for our lives.  None of it rings of honesty, something our grandmothers and founding fathers expected of us.  Freedom exercised unwisely is more costly than ignorance.

What have we become?  And when I say We I mean we, not me, or they, or the others who don’t happen to agree with my position or follow my stance.  Where is the common ground, for I see none?  Rather for fact I see people staking claims, ideologies and lines from which they will not depart, I see no attempt at commonality.  That has been replaced by deceptive bargaining leverage and perceptive marketing.  It matters less who leads than those who would be led.  History clearly demonstrates that population erect/elect the idols to which their hearts find loyalty.  An honest man could not prevail in these times for we ourselves refuse truth.  An unselfish woman could not bring us together for egalitarian purposes because we WANT, in all caps.  A humble youth could not capture the collective will of America’s passion as pride spreads like wildfire through the oaks of our future state.  We will have a tyrant because that is what it takes to lasso the unbridled.  We wish to be free but in that improper use of our passion, power and liberty we will be instead, broken for all the globe to review.

Heaven help us.  Father I cry out now for this land, its people, its water, grass and air.  Forgive us for wandering so deeply into the forest of self-reflection.  Let us return to simpler concepts of Lord, Family and Fealty.  Take from us this constant yearning for conquest and control.  Come be our King so that no earthly ruler puts us underfoot, subjecting all political foes to poverty.  We continue to muck the whole thing up with each passing century and now are hurling headlong to catastrophe.  Save us Lord as hate grows and our hearts ebb cold to grey ember.  Come soon Lord Jesus.  We need you so.  Amen