Wondering about America's Future

Wondering about America's Future

An article title such as ”Wondering about America’s Future” spontaneously evokes suppositions that the writer of said article is fatally pessimistic on whether this nation under God is capable of surviving for the near future and for an extended period thereafter.

I could deny that assumption but I won’t.

Personally, I don’t think we can survive for much longer which is not to say the U.S.A. will disappear from the face of the Earth by next Tuesday. Rather, for our children, what the country has been and what it has meant for centuries will become a dim memory.

Our grandchildren may well come to ask, “What’s a democratic republic, Gramps?” or “Will Great Leader Obama always be the president, Mom?”

That’s a pretty gloomy forecast but one which is unavoidable given the state of the nation as it stands today.

However, another major factor often intrudes on pessimistic outlooks, also given the nature of man, and that is a ray or two of hope always trying to pierce the dismal clouds. It’s the American way and character to be positive and optimistic but even the most positive and optimistic American should take pause at recent events and developments:
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