Not since the so-called Civil War has
this country been so deeply divided by political parties and
ideologies. Americans fight vehemently in the name of their
political parties. Even war is divided by party. Each party believes
their war is the only one that's just. American people are too often
sold a bill of goods in order to fight their supposed just war. If
someone speaks out against war they are called an isolationist or
pacifist. We repeatedly elect politicians that play those types
of word games.
I awoke today to hear Mayor Bloomberg
attacking his white opponent for posing with his black wife, saying
he is racist for posing with her in a photograph. This couldn't have
ever happened in paradise. There is no doubt we will hear one talking
head after another justifying the mayor's comment.
Some days I feel so alone. I see the
world through my eyes, listen with my ears, and believe I've
awakened in the twilight zone. I remember a time when a politician
couldn't get elected if he/she whispered raising taxes. Now we have
Americans begging politicians to take their hard earned money. I hear
those who justify taking 60% of of a worker's income.
I remember friends protesting in the
60's against big government and war. I see those same people
supporting both. I watch those same protesters willingly stand with
outstretched arms so that federal officials can search their bodies
at airports. They now stand idly by as male police officers frisk
women.
We watch Americans heap praise on a
president that stripped away the middle class so there was only the
poor and rich. They watched as he grew government at an
unprecedented rate. Today that same president is is revered. It took
winning a world war to dig this country out of the ravages of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.
While many Americans are divided by
parties, there are the apathetic who spend endless hours watching
sports, playing games on Facebook, or just lost in a drug induced
stupor. There are the single issue voters who cling to whichever
party that will favor their cause.
Where are the Americans that support
only liberty, even when that liberty doesn't favor their pet cause? I
feel lost in paradise because I seek a government that insures all
Americans are treated equally under the law. I want a government that
is truly blind and cannot see flesh color, hear accents, and doesn't
care with whom they have sex. Why do I feel so alone in paradise with
these beliefs?
I'm often bewildered by those who send
millions of dollars to Africa to heal the sick, when many are dying
in this country who cannot afford proper healthcare. Many times those
dollars sent out of the country in the name of charity are used as a
tax deduction. Those same people then demand government raise taxes
on all Americans to help pay for the sick in this country. When
government does provide healthcare assistance they will at the same
time deny certain services. They ask the same government that too
often doesn't take care of wounded soldiers, to provide healthcare
for everyone.
I wake up to find a federal government
that calls anyone who supports the Constitution an extremist. We now
send children to schools regulated by a federal government where
teachers cheer when students with passing test scores approach 50%. I
found myself in a country where the federal government can take money
from people within a state and can then use that same money to
blackmail them into passing certain laws, often in the area of
education.
The day could be spent listing the
things that make no sense and should happen only in the twilight
zone. Someone please tell me that I have awakened in an alternate
universe and am no longer in paradise. Maybe I'm not lost in
paradise, maybe it no longer exists in this universe. What if the
America I want has never, and will never, exist?
"Lost In
Paradise"
I've been believing
in something so distant
As if I was human
And I've been denying this feeling of hopelessness
In me, in me
All the promises I made
Just to let you down
You believed in me, but I'm broken
I have nothing left
And all I feel is this cruel wanting
We've been falling for all this time
And now I'm lost in paradise
As much as I'd like the past not to exist
It still does
And as much as I'd like to feel like I belong here
I'm just as scared as you
I have nothing left
And all I feel is this cruel wanting
We've been falling for all this time
And now I'm lost in paradise
Run away, run away
One day we won't feel this pain anymore
Take it all away
Shadows of you
Cause they won't let me go
Until I have nothing left
And all I feel is this cruel wanting
We've been falling for all this time
And now I'm lost in paradise
Alone, and lost in paradise
As if I was human
And I've been denying this feeling of hopelessness
In me, in me
All the promises I made
Just to let you down
You believed in me, but I'm broken
I have nothing left
And all I feel is this cruel wanting
We've been falling for all this time
And now I'm lost in paradise
As much as I'd like the past not to exist
It still does
And as much as I'd like to feel like I belong here
I'm just as scared as you
I have nothing left
And all I feel is this cruel wanting
We've been falling for all this time
And now I'm lost in paradise
Run away, run away
One day we won't feel this pain anymore
Take it all away
Shadows of you
Cause they won't let me go
Until I have nothing left
And all I feel is this cruel wanting
We've been falling for all this time
And now I'm lost in paradise
Alone, and lost in paradise
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