No Country for Old Men (Or Women, For That Matter)
Growing old in a country you no longer recognize.
Wed Mar 9, 2022
*Don Feder
Those of us who were part of the WW II & Baby Boom generation,
now in our 60s, 70s and 80s, no longer recognize the nation in which
we grew up. We're strangers in a land that gets stranger by the day.
We believed in the American dream. We worked hard, paid our
taxes and obeyed the law —even laws we thought were idiotic.
We married and had children. Today’s young adults cohabit and
have pets.
We struggled to raise families. Some of us went to war, like our
fathers and grandfathers before us. We thought that when we grew
old, there would be more for us – more than alienation.
Most of us don’t recognize Biden’s America. Patriotism has become
passe. Our military is led by men who are social workers and poli-
tically correct hacks. They can’t fight, but they’re great at get-
ting soldiers to use preferred pronouns and combating imaginary
racism in the ranks.
Giant corporations have replaced individual enterprise, which –
in many cases – has been taxed and regulated out of existence. Gov-
ernment bureaucrats and corporate executives are like the pigs and
men at the end of Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
We look in vain for a Ronald Reagan, a Lincoln or Teddy Roose-
velt. Instead, we find corrupt clowns like wizened Nancy Pelosi,
Commissar Ocasio-Cortez (the Cuban pinup girl selling socialist
snake oil) and our president – a cranky septuagenarian slipping
noisily into senility.
If we’re white, we’re told that we are responsible for every pro-
blem that plagues people of color. That’s right, we’re to blame for
the roughly 70% of black children born out of wedlock (we forced
their parents to behave irresponsibly), just as cops are to blame
for the deaths of thugs who threaten their lives.
Savages who burn down cities are hailed as heroes and celebrated
as warriors for social justice. But misguided middle-class citizens,
among them veterans, who trespassed in the Capitol 14 months ago are
branded as traitors and insurgents.
Mayors take down statues of Washington and Columbus and commis-
sion murals of George Floyd.
If you’re white, you’re also responsible for slavery, segrega-
tion, the Wounded Knee massacre and Japanese Americans interned
during World War II. Racism is in our blood, they tell us. Remember,
throughout the course of human history, racism has never existed
anywhere but here.
By “despoiling the earth,” we’re also responsible for climate
change. If we end up paying $7-a-gallon for gas – well, it’s our
own damned fault.
Forget racial minorities. Now, we’re told that there are “sexual
minorities” -- that people who used to be considered odd are in fact
oppressed. And that a man who thinks he’s a woman in fact is a woman
– and is entitled to use the ladies’ room with our granddaughters.
And if we refuse to accept this bizarre fantasy, we are hateful!
What passes for entertainment is sickening – all blood and gore,
sadistic killers, aliens popping out of people’s stomachs and
monsters in various guises. We search in vain for contemporary
movies with characters we can admire or at least care about. So we
retreat to cinema of the 40s and 50s on TCM.
On top of living in a country that’s unrecognizable, we can’t
even afford to live here anymore. You need a second mortgage to buy
a steak. A hamburger and fries at McDonald’s is a gourmet feast.
Filling up the tank is agonizing. Paying confiscatory taxes
marks us as serfs. Inflation is at a 40-year high, and politicians
tell us it’s because government isn’t spending enough.
Our parents could retire at 65, in the mortgage-free home they
bought in their 30s. We’re still working at 75. Retirement is a
distant dream. We’re working to provide benefits for illegal aliens,
addicts and loons who camp out and defecate on the streets.
Many of us are the grandchildren of immigrants, a fact of which
we are proud. Our people helped to build this country. But we wit-
ness with unalloyed horror the tide flowing across our southern
border unimpeded. The middle class view them as criminals, gang
members and mooches. The Democratic party sees them as voters. We
can't defend our own borders, but are expected to defend those of
distant lands.
This used to be an English-speaking country. Now it’s ballots in
20 languages, court interpreters and press one for Serbo-Croatian.
Our feeble president (who’s been sucking on the federal teat for
half-a-century) is unable to perform his Constitutional duties, but
has successfully waged war on domestic energy production. We went
from energy independence to beggars with a gas can in a matter of
months. The corpse that walks says climate change is the biggest
threat to our national security – along with transphobia.
Washington sputters about Putin’s war on Ukraine, but imports
670,000 barrels of Russian oil a day. While he lets pipelines rust
and our oil, coal and natural gas remain in the ground, Biden
pleads with the Saudis to pump more – and is thinking about im-
ports from the Marxists of Venezuela and the jihadists of Iran,
both Russian allies. Apparently, oil from anywhere outside the
U.S. doesn’t pollute.
Officeholders for life treat us like mentally-challenged chil-
dren. They snicker at those who pay their exorbitant salaries.
So we limp along into old age, too proud to go on the dole and
too stubborn to just give up.
Besides, surrender now would be a betrayal of the America that
once was.
*Don Feder*
Don nailed this. He, like many of us, have watched Biden and
his band of misfits are clueless to the damage they are doing.
They seem to think we are stupid and whatever they say has to be
fact.
It is truly heartbreaking to leave our children and grand-
children in the disaster the corrupt have made of this world.
We must ALL pray that with God's help we will get our nation
back in His good graces.
Conservatively,
John
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