America Is at Risk of Boiling Over

[Maggie]

America Is at Risk of Boiling Over - And out-of-touch leaders don't see the need to cool things off

But do our political leaders have any sense of what people are feeling deep down? They don't act as if they do. I think their detachment from how normal people think is more dangerous and disturbing than it has been in the past. I started noticing in the 1980s, the growing gulf between the country's thought leaders, as they're called—the political and media class, the universities—and those living what for lack of a better word we'll call normal lives on the ground in America. The two groups were agitated by different things, concerned about different things, had different focuses, different world views.

But I've never seen the gap wider than it is now. I think it is a chasm. In Washington they don't seem to be looking around and thinking, Hmmm, this nation is in trouble, it needs help. They're thinking something else. I'm not sure they understand the American Dream itself needs a boost, needs encouragement and protection. They don't seem to know or have a sense of the mood of the country.

And so they make their moves, manipulate this issue and that, and keep things at a high boil. And this at a time when people are already in about as much hot water as they can take.

[SB Shock]

There are two extremes - Repression and revolution. They both come about when one is only concerned about their own agenda at all costs. Both extremes will breed contempt and fuel the other extreme. Only way to avoid either extreme is to care about others and willing to make sacrifices for your fellow man. This was a gist of sermon I heard yesterday.

It should not surprise anybody that our country is being driven to the extremes because we are continuing to do everything we can to outlaw any vestiges of God (and morality) in our society and defining down deviance. This destroys any moderating influence to combat our own sinful nature.

[ISASO]

If we would all simply accept the fact that Government is our new God, our lives would be so much less complicated.