Why we are in dire straits in America

I found the exact reason the country is in such dire straits...two words that clearly are the backbone of what was America.

RESPONSIBILITY

and

ACCOUNTABILITY

The current clamor about abortions is based on no responsibility for actions. Thus failure results in an unwanted pregnancy and no accountability for the life that forms inside the womb. Of course in cases of rape or incest, the victim was not responsible and the current system doesn't hold the perpetrator accountable.

Parental abdication of responsibility has filled the streets with thugs and actors who might have well been saved from that life had parents actually taken upon themselves the role of parents. Not friends, or bystanders but parents. And when a child lies dead in the streets at the hands of another, the parents turn away from accepting any accountability for their failures, blaming someone else instead.

 People have become so comfortable blaming others for everything, making excuses for other's actions, feeding their zero accountability. Blaming inanimate objects for the actions of humans has become commonplace; guns, not criminals, are the cause of crime yet vehicles are not the cause of drunk drivers who maim and kill and eating implements like the fork is not the cause of obesity. Of course not...people choose to shoot others, drive drunk or overeat, but that seems to be out of the realm of comprehension for many.

Teachers abdicate the responsibility to teach based on the principles America was founded upon, rather spouting rhetoric and indoctrinating children into whatever their own warped sense of reality may be. And when they go too far and are caught, there is no accountability as the education system defends their actions while the children suffer the long term consequences.

The public screams for law enforcement to be help responsible and accountable for every action, even those actions taken to protect the public against the worst of mankind. While fighting for the public, they are vilified at every turn. Yet the public turns a blind eye, and ear, to the transgressions of crooked politicians and refuses to hold them responsible and accountable at election time, voting the same bastardizations of destruction back into office time after time.

Things need to change in America or we are a doomed nation. Two hundred and forty-six years as of Monday we built this country on the blood sweat and tears of our ancestors and us. Those of us with generations of family in law enforcement remember the stories of how policing was "back in the day" and lament how it is today. Respect by the public has severely diminished and our justice system is no longer just. Catch and release has become the norm of the land, where criminals are out, often committing more crime, before the ink on the paperwork is dry.

Have a safe and happy, healthy Fourth of July holiday and maybe hoist a cold one or a good aged Irish Whiskey or single malt Scotch to all the brothers and sisters, those who led us to the path, those who lost the good fight and those who continue the fight today and tomorrow!

Cheers and sláinte