Boy this is just the statement for this election. Will Rogers couldn't have said it better for today. Of course this election is just a bit different, with what's at stake. Or might it have been the same? Only then the threat was from outside the US.
A lot of people are very concerned about this election, because the threat isn't from without, but from within. For the first time many Americans are concerned about the Socialistic overtones that are being presented in this election. Ideas that would have never sat well eight, or sixteen years ago with the American public.
History tends to show this kind of pattern in aging societies as population increases and that percentage of society becomes dependant on the government for its needs.
It reminds me of a film I watched when I was young. I remember it was in black and white. It was a social experiment in which, in a controlled environment, mice were placed and allowed to procreate. As the population grew things began to change. Clans were formed, wars were fought, and the survivors continued to grow in number. Till finally they reached that point in which they became lazy, and depended on the part of society that was still foraging for food and protecting them. As time went on they all became weak and didn't seem to have any reason to live. Left fat and just basically laying around.
This study about mice had a huge impact on me because it became the measuring stick for my judgment of our society in a way. The reason is because I have been amazed at the correlation between these mice and our society.
Could this be our fate? Are we taking the first steps towards what we have just witnessed in Russia, and East Germany? Maybe we will do something more like China is doing with what I would call "Capitalistic Communism."
What ever is to happen in our country today is definatly going to effect us, but my real concern is for my children. What are we leaving them with the decisions we make this day of the election. Someone much smarter than I said, "What we condone today, the next generation will embrace tomorrow". The Biblical phrase would be "What you sow, you will reap".
Bill Collier
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