With Liberty & Justice For All and Other Myths

If television and the Internet did away with normal programming and were limited to giving us only commercials to view, this country would seem Utopian.  Commercials bombard and mesmerize us hourly with  30 second upbeat, choreographed and dazzling presentations featuring must-have cell phones, automobiles, prescription drugs, products which make the vagina smell better, creams that heighten sexual gratification, miscellaneous gadgetry, and companies that promise us that, with their sage advice, we will spend our golden years with financial freedom. Unfortunately, that is not the case for these commercials are rudely interrupted each hour with 44 minutes of  annoying  programs, many of which erode the escapist fantasy the commercials project and reveal to us the reality in which we currently exist…an existence that is in a downward spiral and totally out of control.

Most, if not all of us, know why this reality exists but few have articulated it better than Donald Trump in a recent televised interview on CNN: 
http://www.money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/03/21/n_trump_president_smart.cnnmoney/?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin

Please take the time to seek out the link above because, despite of what you might think of Mr. Trump, this interview is scathingly honest and leaves little doubt that we are continually being led and manipulated by ignorant, arrogant and greedy politicians, lobbyists and corporations who have utilized their personal agendas to rip the fabric of our America to shreds and now find that the country is so littered with the years of the subsequent debris that the road leading us back home is too obscure to locate.

My granddaughter recently posted a quote on her Facebook page:

Fairy tales don't tell children that dragons exist, children already know they exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.


Sadly enough for all of us, there are now too many dragons and too few dragon-slayers. As a result, any viable solution will come too late for me but it may not be too late for my granddaughters and others of their age. Perhaps Mr. Trump can find a way to mobilize enough dragon slayers to collectively dig the country out of this quagmire of despair, finally dispense with the dragons and ultimately lead America back home.