c o n v i c t i o n s
... sickened by the dissolution of the principles underpinning the social contract of our country.
... alarmed by the disregard of these principles, even calls to cancel the magnificent culture for which they were foundational.
... dismayed that so very, very few of our leading thinkers have stood up to renounce what has become a “new normal” of vehement disregard for civility.
... stupefied by the all encompassing need today of “being right,” all the while unwilling to consider opposing views held by others of equal, often greater, intelligence and experience.
... weary of the unacceptance of the life-changing, life-informing importance of acceptance of one another regardless of differences.
... disheartened by the seemingly lost practice of forgiveness of one person for another, a bedrock heretofore of a happy, fulfilled life, now upended with accompanying unhappiness and unfulfillment.
... discouraged by daily witnessing first-hand demonstrations of one person’s need to tell another what is right and wrong and/or what/how to do everything.
... shocked by the level of infectious hatred oozing from the wounds of bitter, bloody polarization dividing our country.
... discouraged by how cheap words have become.
... stunned watching the brain-dead procession of people marching in lockstep, one after another, welcoming the usurpation of their freedoms, staring straight ahead questioning nothing they see, leaping without thought into an abyss of utter thoughtlessness.
... no longer able to idly sit by and watch newly corrupted, power-hungry, “civil servants” jack-bootedly usurp the civil rights endowed by the constitution and bill of rights through their baseless claims, and acts of authority.
... tired by how we have been lulled to sleep by time-wasting, entertaining social media hosted by privacy-raping, monopolistic tech companies freely operating above the law.
... hopelessly forlorn witnessing the demise, and yet growing influence, of the fourth (media) and fifth (higher education) estates that no longer serve the best interests of our country.
... appalled at the incredible amount of Kool-Aid being consumed by a public having ignorantly misplaced their trust in today’s failed institutions of state.
... not surprised by the ceaseless, careless corruption of our solely self-serving leaders within all three branches of government.
... no longer comforted by our once-upon-a-time, warm, cozy blanket of protective world dominance.
... loudly opposed to our leaders’ warm-welcoming of slithering wormtongues whispering phony platitudes of unconcern for the perilous actions of the slumbering dragon nations, which upon waking, are committed to viciously consume us in a moment of heretofore unforeseen violence.
... sure that the unintended results of having instilled generations of welfare recipients with “free-rides” will soon kill all ambition.
... convinced that eschewing “rational” relativistic thinking in place of “irrational” faith has introduced a dangerous deadly virus into society with its truly menacing impact on our county’s health.
... abhorred by the ignorant, blind acceptance of perversity in the name of diversity.
... horrified at our culture’s adamant refusal to acknowledge fetal life while endorsing barbaric, first-degree murder on the basis of another person’s so-called “reproductive rights.”
... convinced that a great deal of today’s rejection of proven past principles of western civilization have been usurped by our fear and by each of our ever-present, existential quests for significance
... frightened beyond fright at the havoc the dissolution of our guiding principles will have upon future generations of our helpless grandchildren.