Letters from the Desk of the Editor
Dear America,
I can’t help but fear that this letter falls upon deaf ears or, at the very least, falls flat, deafened by the explosive roar and aimless fury of voices, sounds and images that is life in the 21st century. Nonetheless, I feel as if for far too long I have sat silent, watching the mayhem and ignoring the cries of the poor and the hungry as we begin to enter into what economists are dubbing a double dip recession.
And around the country roads are crumbling and highways are crumbling and levies, damns, sewers are crumbling and everything is crumbling but the voice of the Senate which warbles onward and upward in volume and intensity as they shout at shadows of bygone eras, refusing to face the America that we live in today.
And the unemployment rates are rising, the poverty level is rising and the gulf coast is drowning in the black blooded oil of the nation and they find themselves once again fighting to release the strangle hold of the British. And if you look down the Mississippi you can still see the British coming in ghastly black, attacking the shores of a forgotten war, the battle raging on the Gulf where Old Hickory had left them two hundred years ago.
And Americans across the country seek desperately an escape from the rules and regulations that we have imposed upon ourselves because there’s no frontier left to run to. Americans claiming themselves sovereign march blindly into the darkness of the ignorance cult and claim themselves to be patriots.
And as we celebrate the Anniversary of that first truly American fight, and the first joined utterance of truly American sentiment and we watch the pomp and the pageantry of colored fire illuminating the sky there are more Americans jobless and in prison than lived in all of those future states when those words were coined that all men have the right to life, liberty and above all the pursuit of happiness.
Cause that’s what it all boils down to, isn’t it? If we stop and look at it. We all want the right to be happy but we aren’t. Some of us try and drown our problems in alcohol, drugs (both prescription and otherwise), in floods and waves of entertainment that we watch not because we like it or enjoy it but simply because there’s nothing else to do. But we cannot drown our way to happiness but only cause ourselves to be distracted as we slip farther and farther down the slippery slope from freedom to frustration. And we search desperately for a scapegoat either chemical, racial or even federal.
But the simple fact of the matter is that we have no one else to blame but ourselves. This has always been a nation of the people and we the people can’t see that. We wonder why the country drowns in debt to foreign nations and at the same time try desperately to get out of paying our taxes. We blame Jewish bankers, investors and Shylocks but we forget that were it not for Jewish investors (Hyam Salomon) America would never have gotten its feet off the ground.
And as the Star of David shines upon the American Eagle, the dollar finds itself slowly getting weaker, like the bloodline and backbones which modern America was built upon. And I can’t help but wonder if there’s anyone left in the middle and upper classes who would buy bonds anymore, or perhaps they wouldn’t see this as a strong enough investment.
But that is what this country needs. It needs an investment. It needs Americans to stop hiding in twitter languages and to stand up and be Americans. It needs to step back and take a look at the fact that South Africa is now seen as a more racially tolerant country. It needs to take a look at the fact that we never would have left the Great Depression if FDR hadn’t bankrolled the country. If it weren’t for the Federal Government we would still be living in Hoovervilles or under communist rule. We are not because FDR knew that beyond simply providing money for the unemployed the country needed to go to work. Both for the nation as a whole and for the individual. Even Vince Lombardi knew that all men loved hard work. Its in our blood. Its in our bones. Its something we’ve forgotten about because we haven’t seen anything worth working for, worth working towards but I can tell you, America, I see it and if we do not start working together now then I fear there will be nothing worth saving soon.
I pray this letter finds you before it is too late,
The Editor
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson