Descent Of A Nation

The Founding Fathers gathered in that hot stinky wooden room in Philadelphia that summer of 1776 were risking their lives, their wealth, and their way of life to dare to have the courage to meet day after day to painstakingly draw up the documents to formally found the American nation.  They argued over and tweaked every single word, having had the vision to realize that what they were creating was to become the foundation of an eternal revolution of self rule, independence, freedom, and the democratic concept of self-determination.  Most of them were highly educated, well read, sharp minded men who knew very well what could go wrong with the nation they were founding.  They were determined to anticipate every element of potential disaster and craft a form of government stable and strong enough to withstand all attempts at tyranny.  They even anticipated that the vast unwashed uneducated masses could someday be duped by a damn dumb fast talking flim flam man falsely promising peasants paradise.  So, at first, they decreed that the only ones who would have the right to vote were the wise guardians of the land, the landowners, people like themselves.  It was undemocratic and unfair.  But, they were right.  Yet, over the years and centuries, fairness prevailed; and the right to vote entitlement went to every citizen of every race, women, immigrants, rich and poor, educated and uneducated.  Until the day came when a fast talking flim flam man became president and the first thing he did was to begin to deny the right to vote to those he didn't like; minorities of every ilk.

The party supporting this destroyer of democracy was founded by the original paragon of equality, a gay man, who courageously led our nation through war entered into by enslaver states.  Though martyred by bigotry, he is immortalized to this day as the bearer of the truth that every life matters.  Today, the inheritors of that party have besmirched its founding principles and sundered and soiled its values in a conspiracy so vast that those betrayed by that treason no longer know what to believe.  By their hand, truth now has no meaning, down is up, black is white, and official violence is virtuous.  By their hand, the founding fathers' checks and balances have been conquered and vanquished.  This past month they confirmed a drunken scoundrel as a Supreme Court Justice; thereby resoundingly pounding the final nail in the coffin of our nation.