What's Become Of Us?

Are we so self-absorbed, so egocentric, so divided, that we have lost our sense of country, of our civic responsibilities of our humanity. Do we now choose political sides based solely on our self-interest, insensitive to the consequences of our selfishness? Admittedly we all have our biases, our quirks, but once it seemed, we were more constrained in their extremes. We were more patriotic, more inclusive than divisive toward one another. There was a day that the vast majority of us were in lockstep when it came to what it was to be an American; proud and confident in knowing our government would do the right thing by us to preserve our inalienable rights for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness manifested in our sacrosanct Declaration of independence. That’s not the case today, is it? Today Americans appear to be less self-reliant, more government influenced and dependent, more prone to discord, disillusionment, and divisive. Correspondingly our government, once the few, of the people, for the people and by the people, has evolved into an enormous ungainly bureaucracy of over 9 million so-called public servants, too many of which wielding unconstitutional power in the guise of saving us from ourselves! And Covid 19 adding insult to injury has pushed us yet further into this quagmire of civic unrest; forced government dependence, deceit, and deception.