I am really not a pessimist. I am actually a very optimistic person, but there are alot of things going on in America that cause me great concern. I think most of you are like me. You know things are bad, even dangerous, but there is nothing going on right now that cannot be changed or fixed. That is why we are all part of this revolution. It is a revolution, so far peaceful and hopefully always peaceful but nevertheless a revolution. What the left has done with a 20% minority is astounding. I know with the silent majority no longer silent we can accomplish all of our goals. The key is persistence. We cannot let up even with a government that is conservative. We must hold their feet to the fire of the Constitution with the same fervor and fury that we have rejected the current anti-American government. We will win, but there is alot of work to be done in our own homes and in our own neighborhoods.
     
     The work I speak of is the direction of morality or the lack of it in our culture. The pornification of nearly every aspect of the media and art culture is appalling to me. When pushing the limits becomes the norm, the shock value has worn off long before. I wonder whatever happened to parenting. Any of us can see this on display at any mall where preteen and even adolescent girls are showing parts of their bodies that grown women would not show when I was a kid. The boys are just as bad. They are usually standing around talking about what they would do sexually with these girls with the "F" word flowing like an acceptable adjective in front of anyone passing by including adults and senior citizens. Parenting has become supplying food, shelter, clothing and whatever electronic device the child wants. I feel sorry for the children and contempt for the parents. 

     My parents would never have put up with my siblings and I acting in such a way. Spankings, mouths getting washed out with soap and groundings were used with us and I couldn't be happier for it. I was loved and I knew it, but I also knew that bad behavior came with a price. I was taught that my actions not only reflected good or bad on me but also the rest of the family and that I had a duty to protect that honor. I don't see that now like I did back then. I see more of the opposite. Parents do their children a disservice by not instilling good values in them. Maybe it's selfishness or laziness I don't know but there are no excuses in my opinion. If you bring a child into the world it is your job, your responsibility, no matter what, to prepare that child to be a productive member of society, on top of providing the basics. If you don't want the responsibilities then don't have children. It's as simple as that. 

     It's not alright for children to smoke pot and have pre-marital sex. Whatever happened to waiting for marriage to be intimate when you are truly in love? It's not alright for pimps, prostitutes, strippers and dope dealers to be glamorized. The stigmas on all of these behaviors have been removed. It's also alright now to foreclose on your house if you are just sick of paying it or not pay your credit card bills because you are sick of paying for them. Bankruptcy used to have such a stigma that people would rather move to another state than have to admit to his peers and neighbors that it had happened. Bankruptcy is almost chic now. I know, I know, it happens sometimes to people that get laid off or get sick etc. I'm not talking about those people. I am talking about the people that knew better but refused to do the right thing or just didn't care either way. You have a few of these people in your life I am positive. Some people actually wear Bankruptcy like a badge of honor, bragging about how they got over on the system. It makes me sick to my stomach because I know where this leads to from history. Personal accountability has been conveniently swept under the rug to be replaced by some conjured up victimization. Your dad didn't throw the baseball to you as a kid so you rob convenience stores or the best one of all, you eat too many twinkies and in one case you are mentally impaired enough not to be responsible for a double murder. I could rattle off a bunch more but you know what I am talking about. Something has got to give sooner rather than later or else we are all going to pay the price. 

     Today I kept hearing about Roman Polanski. If you don't already know, Polanski's wife Sharon Tate was murdered in the infamous Manson family "Helter Skelter" murders. Polanski who had nothing to do with his wife's murder was a sympathetic figure for years until he was charged with drugging, raping and sodomizing a 13 year old girl after a photo shoot at the home of Jack Nicholson. Polanski knowing he was facing a long prison sentence fled the country, relocated to France and has been living there since. The Los Angeles county District Attorney announced that Polanski had traveled to Switzerland this week to accept an award and was arrested by the Swiss in lieu of extradition. The reaction from the mainstream media was sympathetic to Polanski and not to the girl that was brutalized by him. Supposedly the girl who now is a woman in her 40's has forgiven him and on that basis the media and alot of other people are up in arms about him being brought to trial 30 plus years later. What they don't understand is that to let him go is the same as sending a message to every other criminal that as long as you escape for a long enough period of time you might get away with it. This is not acceptable either. No one is above the law and if you break the law you must pay your debt. Polanski is no exception.

     Our children need to learn these lessons. They need to learn about God and the founders and the foundations that everything in life is based on. They need to know that they have parents, family and friends that love them but are not going to accept bad behavior or less than honorable behavior. Our country can be saved from the abyss and it doesn't start in the White House it starts in our houses. We must first fix ourselves, our families and our communities. Every revolution starts with a single thought then spreads among the populace. Our revolution is a back to the roots revolution. We are not anarchists and none of us are evil killers like Che Guevara. We are Patriotic Americans that know what is right and wrong and are not going to follow the path of least resistance. Our children need to learn that about us.