Over the last few months there has been a great pressure in my chest. It is a potent mix of stress and sadness. I have seen businesses falter and fail in my community. I have witnessed jobs disappear and return only to be met with vacancy and laziness. I have seen my college tell former students that they need particular type of mask to enter the premises. They now also require an ID, which is checked by an octogenarian behind a level IIIa sneeze shield. The gas stations and stores demanded compliance with mask mandates as much as public buildings.
These were not good signs. They made me unhappy. More than these, though, were the words of people so warped by COVID that they yielded over all common sense. All of it was handed over. I’ve now heard people state that I am paranoid because I ask what is in the vaccine. I am called a conspiracy theorist because I state that Biden has handed a terrorist organization a massive amount of weaponry and war fighting tech. Don’t even get me started on the election rhetoric.
What I have heard and seen scares me. What I have witnessed makes me believe that the fat, lazy, thoughtless, self- worshiping, arrogant, entitled American has reached numbers that make any election almost a foregone conclusion, stolen for the left.
Mostly, I believe this because the people that used to say that they drew hard lines and stood for freedom now cower in the proverbial corner and speak of nice, quiet, peaceful lives of vaccination and pacification. I just cannot shake this really bad feeling that America has become the weak, spineless, soft nation that China and Russia always thought we were.
GOD knows that I love my country. America is my home and my fondest memory. I just cannot shake this very, very bad feeling that not many people love her anymore.
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I have the same foreboding feeling. Let us pray we’re wrong or that somehow the country is still worth a miracle to save it and is not on the cusp of well-earned punishment.
I know that I won’t give in to despair. The country is still worth fighting for.