How Did We Get Here?

Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? The year, 1965 seems like an honest beginning. I was a 15 year old who knew it all. Life was tough, but good. My family could go away for a couple of days, leave the windows open, the front door unlocked, and know that if a storm arrived, the neighbors would take care of things for us. Also, back in those days, you knew most of your whole neighborhood. People communicated back then. Things were much different. Those were the times when there was a real sense of community. A bond, that nothing could break. It was like one big family. And it’s sad those days are gone.

Today, there’s not even enough time for the kids, let alone, the community. We’re living in a no repsonsibility world today. It’s always “their” fault. No one has to take the blame when they screw up. Someone else always made them do it. It’s not odd that neighbors are not familiar with one another. There are far too many “latch key” kids running home after school, unsupervised or cared for. These kids have to wing it, so to speak. They have no adult supervision at all.

Back in ‘65, the worst thing that ever happened during a day of school was either “someone gets caught smoking in the boys room, someone gets caught chewing gum in class, or some clown is caught throwing spit balls”. That was it. No guns, no drugs, no gangs, and guess what? No DIVERSITY. Imagine that! We actually have been getting by with just our old home spun English language. No mess at the borders, no school shootings, no worry of weapons at high school games...none of that at all.

So where did things change? For starters, I recall at least through my senior year in high school, we would have a Chapel Service weekly, and have a local pastor come in and speak to the student body. But now, don’t even think about doing that. It’s a crime. Those were the days when a teacher or school principal would have the authority to reprimand a student for wrong doing. And the student would get the same once he and dad were home at the same time. Back then, there was a thing allowed, known as discipline. Today, there’s not much of that going around. It’s not very PC, as kids have rights.

I realize there are many more people here today than there were back in 65, but it’s not just because of the growth of the USA and more people being born. As the older generation passes away, and abortions on demand, then how did America become so highly populated. Why the answer to that is simple. The government here has let it be known there are no penalties to be handed down to those who want to come and suck on the teat of Ms. Liberty. It matters not that they are here illegally...it only matters that we cause them no harm, lest they would hate us.

I never thought I would live long enough to see a country so equally divided. Good versus evil...love versus hate...right versus wrong...and yet, both sides claim the higher ground. Well, that just can’t be. You can barely distinguish between the two major
political parties anymore. There doesn’t seem to be a nickel’s worth of difference between them. What used to be known as conservative is no more. We don’t need this huge government that seems to be leading to a game of “May I”, when it’s all said and done. The government should be working for us...not against us.

So, how did we get here? Was it a random thing? Was it something that was bound to happen? What? Why? Well, here’s what I think. When we turned into a nation of “I-I Me-Me”, that was it. People have become lovers of self as was written early on, and we’re living to see it come to pass. We got here by turning a blind eye to wrong...to evil...as we continued to blame it on someone or something else. However, that’s not the cure. What do you think?