America's confusion about what is important and petty begins
at the top.
Two Americas
Townhall.com – Victor Davis
Hanson – 8/22/2013
The historic role of
government is changing before our eyes. President Obama is making the argument
that the executive branch by presidential fiat can pick and choose which laws
should and should not be faithfully executed -- whether Obamacare, immigration
amnesties or No Child Left Behind statutes.
The fate of the entire
concept of voluntary tax compliance is currently endangered by the
politicization of the Internal Revenue Service. Whether the government can
monitor the communications of either reporters or average citizens depends on
getting to the bottom of the National Security Agency and Justice
Department/Associated Press scandals.
Why is the country consumed
by the trivial while snoozing through the essential?
We have become a nation of
instant electronic communications -- Twitter, Facebook, cell phones and the
Internet -- even as reading and math scores plummet in our schools, and
newspapers and magazines go broke. We can communicate information at the speed
of light but have trouble finding anything meaningful to send back and forth.
America's confusion about what is important and petty begins
at the top.
The commander in chief was
playing cards while Navy Seals risked their lives to kill America's No. 1 enemy
-- only later to use photos of himself watching live feeds for his re-election
sloganeering: "bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!"
That pretense sums up the
growing void between real and trivial America.
READER COMMENT: We have done a poor job of passing our values
on to our children. My father was a WW2 veteran who served on an aircraft
carrier in the South Pacific. He understood what he was fighting for when he
enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor. We have
allowed the progressives to so rewrite our history that it does not even
resemble the history I learned in school. We have allowed the progressives to
heap shame on us for being mysogenists, racists, and a host of other ists that
we never were concerned about in the past. Some of these things have changed
for the better, but for most, the change has been overwhelmingly for the worse.
People look for reasons to be offended today. Behavior that constitutes mental
illness is daily paraded as normal behavior on reality shows. We have lost any
sense of reality and how to distinguish reality from fantasy. We cannot even
believe a photograph these days because we have no way of knowing if it has
been Photoshopped. When we can no longer trust what we see or hear, there is no
basis for making informed decisions about anything. We have the ultimate
president for such a time. He is as phony as the Photoshopped pictures he gave
us showing him glued to the video feed during the bin Laden raid. Can we then
wonder why our children are so obsessed with the Khardasians? It makes me glad
I cut the cord on my satellite system two years ago and went back to a TV
antenna and a Roku box. I watch only what interests me and leave the trash
outside my door.
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