Many
people are now saying that our institutions, our political system, our media,
our schools, have failed us. I
disagree. I think that we have failed
our institutions. It was the “Boomers”
who have made a pig’s breakfast of governance, who have set the tone. It is we the people, led the “Generation of
Swine”, that has opened the nominating process and then failed to show up to
vote leaving the field to the knuckle-dragging ideologues be they Neo-Cons,
Neo-Liberals, or the unwashed Teabaggers to seize control. It was we the people, led by the “Generation
of Swine”, who have stopped READING—newspapers, books, magazines—in favor of
catching the latest meme now swirling through the “Internets” like so many turds
circling the bowl. It was we the people,
led by the “Generation of Swine”, who have failed our educational institutions
first by defunding them in favor of vouchers in order to finance the equivalent
of the “American Madrasa” in the form of parochial and “on-line” education and
thereby electing ourselves out of a well-rounded education. It was we the people, led by the “Generation
of Swine” who have been about the business of transforming our universities
into glorified voc-ed centers thereby sacrificing the well-rounded citizen in
the singular pursuit of money. It is we
the people, led by the “Generation of Swine”, that have failed our political
system by supporting candidates who universally denigrate the very institutions
they seek to join. It is we the people,
led by the “Generation of Swine, who have compounded the error by imposing term
limits on public service thereby sacrificing experience to the lobbyists and
the special interests they represent, and by imposing limits on the ability
government to tax. It is we the people,
led by the “Generation of Swine” that having made an ethic of the individual we
now compound the error by genuflecting before the altar of ignorant
innocence.
Our
institutions are what we make of them and our ancestors bequeathed to us solid
institutions that by and large performed the task of providing the greatest good
for the greatest number. Yes, there
always has been and continues to be need for improvement, and the history of
this country has been a history of struggle to achieve the ideal enshrined in
our constitution to “create a more perfect union” in part by “providing for the
general welfare”.
But this
generation, the “Generation of Swine”, have gone about the business of
vandalizing our institutions by making continual war upon governance. The mendacity of the swine has now Trumped
the American Dream. We are about to pay
a heavy price and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
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