Statue of the Repub­lic, Chicago

I am increas­ingly becom­ing wor­ried about the state of our great Nation.  Every day I see more and more how we are falling from a once great repub­lic (not a democ­racy) to a bro­ken sys­tem, which is lead­ing dan­ger­ously to total­i­tar­i­an­ism.  I’m not just say­ing that because of Barack Obama and he being a Demo­c­rat.  No, it didn’t start with him.  It’s been going on longer than I’ve been alive.  How­ever, in recent years it has accel­er­ated at an increas­ingly alarm­ing rate, most notably with George W. Bush’s spend­ing pol­icy.  (And yes, I voted for him — twice…)  Most of us (includ­ing me) have had our blind­ers on.  I am fully awake now.

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