Dark clouds gathering

"The sky has gone from azure blue to overcast to dark clouds starting to gather. And our 'sky' is our country..."

I have been thinking quite a bit as of late. Thinking about our world, our country, our communities. I was thinking about how our world has changed since World War II. How we fought so hard, gave up so much blood and treasure, to defeat an enemy more evil than anyone could imagine. How after the war we not only rebuilt our economy, we also helped rebuild the economy of our defeated enemies. How with blood, sweat, tears, and Yankee ingenuity, we build the greatest country, the greatest economy, the world has ever known.

I am a boomer. This is the world I grew up in. The country my parents, our parents, prepared for us. What happened to this world of promise? This world where the sky was the limit? Where the sky was often blue? Some say things changed in the 60's. Viet Nam, The Great Society, whatever. Others say the change began to take effect under Franklin Roosevelt during the New Deal. All I know is now is this -  in 2015, the New Deal, the Great Society, has turned into the raw deal for many of us.

In Washington, we can't do much at all these days. We can't pass a budget. Continuing Resolutions (CR) have become ordinary rather than extraordinary. Our debt keeps growing into the stratosphere and beyond. And, NOBODY seems to care. That in of by itself is one of the darkest clouds we have.

Our energy policy is non-existent. Zip, nada. We have a Energy Secretary who looks and acts like a cast member from the Wizard of Oz. We can't even build a much needed pipeline from Canada. We are getting ready to shutter our coal powered plants. Power plants which are MAJOR energy producers. And then we are going to pull the plug of some of our nukes. And what are we going to use to replace them? No plan as yet. And probably won't be ten years from now.

Our world is on fire. Genocide has become reality once again. It is no longer something we only read about in a history book. Christian babies are being stomped to death in the street; young Christian children crucified or beheaded. Adults burned, buried alive, drown or shot. And unlike in World War II, where the menace was confronted and eliminated, we are spectators. It is okay to sit and watch carnage from the sidelines.

In our country, we don't give a damn we have butchered tens of millions of unborn babies. Since Roe v. Wade became law, abortion clinics have become a cottage industry. And what is our leadership doing about it? We are fighting over the definition of "late term". We have video-graphic evidence that baby parts from abortions are being sold. Sold! Like a commodity. And yet our President and his party seem to be just fine with this.

Ladies and gentlemen I really don't mean to sound dour, but we are in a world of hurt. And because many of our "changes" have come slowly, we don't realize we are frogs in boiling water. The bottom line as I see it? And this is tough to say. We are being governed by idiots. Clueless, gutless idiots. Not the leadership we have had in the past. Not a Ronald Reagan who once again showed us we could be that bight shining city on a hill. No. Today our leadership is comprised of selfish, political, ideologues. No leadership there.

That is why I am seeing dark clouds gathering. If Hillary becomes president, our slide into Gomorrah and serfdom will continue. Please Lord, let a leader who can truly lead rise up. One who recognizes our Constitution and will protect and defend it. One who understands what American Exceptionalism is. Without strong leadership, the dark clouds will soon turn into a very damaging storm.