How is it that the system of tenure, designed to ensure free
speech and open discussion on college campuses, has led to
an outbreak of political correctness and group-think in our
universities and colleges?
How did our system of welfare, designed to provide a
temporary helping hand to those in need, morph into a
system enabling a permanent social underclass dependent
on politicians?
Isn't it interesting how public service unions, designed to
provide a fair wage and protection from political patronage,
have led to a politically protected class of workers, who,
in many cases, receive better wages and benefits than
the public, who is taxed to support them.
Is it only me who notices, or does it seem to you, too, that
people who express the most concern for the welfare of others
tolerate the least dissent from the others who disagree with them?
Doesn't it seem that, the longer a politician remains in office,
the more they become concerned with protecting wealthy
special interests and themselves, and the less they become
concerned with protecting the average citizen?
How did it happen that, over the years, so many religions have
been interpreted in ways that lead to bigotry and oppression?
When did this country start its slide from a place that celebrated
rugged individualism, to a place where its people rely more on
guidance from celebrities, politicians, businessmen, teachers,
doctors, and gurus of every imaginable kind, to think for them and
tell them what's important or what's right or wrong for them? Will
the pendulum swing back, or has it permanently moved?
Good intentions have led us to this place. The question we must
each answer for ourselves is, where do we go from here, and does
that road lead us to, or from, Hell?
