So, You're Disappointed?

Since December 12, 2000, it’s been like a dream slowly deteriorating into a nightmare. E Pluribus Unum—Out of many, one—can no longer be the United States’ motto because it simply is not true. We’re a polarized nation to the point that a new civil war won’t surprise me as it erupts. There was a glimmer of hope a year ago as Barack Obama was sworn in as President, but that hope has all but succumbed to the Party of No which has no mission but to usurp all others. There are those who are disappointed in Obama. I am not one of them. Although he is far too great a man to ever say such a thing publicly, I suspect that I share Obama’s disappointment in America. The straw which may very well have broken the camel’s back is today's Supreme Court decision to strike down limits on corporate political spending. We are no longer a government of, by and for the people, but a corporate enterprise which has nothing more than its own gain in mind. The insurance companies will thrive at the expense of the sick. The military industrial complex will profit from the instigation and continuation of war. Wall Street will prosper at the expense of the “lower” classes. We should be ashamed, but we are not. That is what has gone wrong with America.