America. and flawless inspiration.

    I hate to say this, but we, as a country, are screwed.

    And it didn't just happen. We've been screwed. For a LONG time now.

    America is imploding from within, its infrastructure crumbling from greed and short term thinking.

    I cant stand the election process in this country. Its a two party system, therefore we only get two choices. We are forced to choose between two candidates that may or may not even be qualified for the job. We don't even know. Why? Because that decision is made by somebody else for us.

    This doesn't make any sense to me. Our votes mean nothing. In the end, the people being chosen are granted that opportunity by others with a back door agenda in benefitting themselves, not us.

    I was recently discussing matters of our world with a very special friend of mine who is far more knowledgeable in these matters then even me. I was shocked to hear her point of view, but at the same time, it opened my mind to a surprising concept.

    Other countries laugh at us. We look like a bunch of idiots to other societies.

    Look at our pop culture. Americans idolize rappers who wear millions of dollars worth of jewelry around their necks and wear their pants around their knees. We pay sports players ridiculous sums of money to play a game, while structured education is failing miserably all over the United States, from kindergarten all the way to the university level. The Kardashian sisters can make six figure incomes being famous, for basically no reason whatsoever. (as of recent developments, a certain Kardashian sister is making an eight figure income completely devoid of the justification in her use of resources to sustain life.)

    Supply and demand = pimping and whoring.

    Now here is what I fear the most about all of this. The government is the same way.

    It's all about the money.

    My instinct tells me I will not be alive long enough to see the radical change it will take to fix this country. A revolution of sorts. (i.e. an overthrow?). But another part of me hopes, for the sake of the principles this country was built on, that it will happen, and we can prosper on solid ideals like our forefathers envisioned.

    There was a point in my life when I thought I would never leave my hometown. I have since moved to a different state, and now I ponder maybe living in another country within the next couple of years..

    I hate to do this to you America, but I cant watch your demise firsthand anymore :(

-Anderson Rowe