Rollin' Down Hill
‘Ol Merle once crooned his desire
for our country to quit rollin’ down hill and I’m not certain I agree.
Don’t get me wrong I love this country, I have been all over this world and in
my humble opinion you’d be damned to find another place as beautiful, strong
and free as America. This country has a will made up from the sweat of every
immigrant and patriot that has ever worked her land or sewed crops in her
fields, spanned our mighty rivers and climbed our majestic mountains, and that
will can never be broken by any two bit, self proclaimed soldier of some hierarchical
spirit whose charged them with clearing this world of anyone whom opposes their
beliefs.
When The Okie from Muskogee bellowed
out the words to this song, exclaiming our country rollin downhill like a
snowball headed for hell I cant
help but think of the state of politics in our country right now, no matter
whom you might be vying for to be the next face of the highest office in this
land, you’ve got to be ashamed of the choices we have right now. We live in a
democracy and if the people vote to elect a certain candidate then that’s the
way it is, that’s the leader the people want, and for other candidates to
acknowledge that by proclaiming their banding together to fight that
opportunity is a shambles. Rather than sharing their intent to protect our country
or what they might do to make our country stronger, more successful, more
right, they act like 7 year old boys in the school yard ganging up on another
kid because he speaks the loudest.
What does that say about each of
those candidates, their answer is to gang up and persecute the other guy instead of
addressing the people of this great nation and convey to them their intentions
if elected; a shameful, incredible and disgusting waste of time and money and insult
to the intelligence of the people of our nation. Our country is rolling down
hill all right, like a boulder that’s finally shook free from its precipice and
is now tumbling wildly threatening to protect her sandy shores and golden
prairies in the face of ever increasing terrorism and we need someone to step
in and gain control of her, not to cry because they can’t handle the fight.
Like Roosevelt liked to say, "Bully on" America, stand up and take control away from the politicians, remember
what former President Reagan said about politics…that the job of a politician
and a world leader is to be a servant of the people and not the other way
round.