A Down Vibe

The current president of the United States posted a meme that stated that Joe Biden died back in 2020 and that the Democrats used clones and deception to get through Biden’s presidency.

A Republican rep, when asked about people losing their healthcare, mentioned that we’re all going to die anyway.

The big, beautiful bill will add trillions to the deficit, following an attempt to cut waster to reduce the deficit, but we need to do it because the wealthy are suffering, evidently.

We are lost.

For the first time, I don’t think it’s going to be all right.

Now, it’s been building for a long, long while, but it’s hard to realize that the game might try be over.

Couple things happened to give me the down vibe.

First, I thought about 1976 and the bicentennial celebration in my hometown.

I’ve been blessed with a great memory, and I not only remember the parade and the grand celebration back about 50 years ago, but I also remember the lead up to the event, and what a huge deal it was.

America was celebrating 200 years of freedom.

Man, as a kid, I was proud to stand and salute the flag as the men of our town who served, lead the parade.

In school we learned about why we originally needed our independence - religious freedom, we wanted a government for the people - we did not want to be ruled by a king.

Our government was to serve all of us - and we would all have equal standing.

Then there was the Boston Tea Party - which was a revolution against tarifffs.

We are now setting tariffs on the whims of a man posting memes about clones.

Freedoms for all?

Everyone represented?

Nah.

We’re all going to die eventually, anyway.

A down vibe.

How do we get out from under this?

Will we wake up in time?

The second thing that happened to me was that I received an email that offered me a stamp of the American flag that I could imprint on my golf ball.

I thought about that little boy in 1976 who was proud to be an American.

And then I deleted the email.

No way would I stamp the flag on my golf ball.