Journal Entry - Friday, April 4, 2025
Democracy
There is so much I don’t know that I would like to know, I often find it overwhelming. Right now, I find myself wishing I were smart enough to step into our political fray and make people see that the direction we are taking our Democracy is not a positive one. Where we are going now will only set us back. I believe the human experience evolves toward greater and greater good. Having said that, I have to add that it does so in fits and starts.
I didn’t think I would see a step backwards in my lifetime, but I find myself looking at just that. In my defense (more to the point in my generations’s defense) the characters foisting this regression on us are mostly members of a younger generation. What has predisposed them to treat precious freedoms so lightly is beyond my comprehension. I acknowledge that it could be my fault. My generation’s fault. Perhaps we lived too easily and did not do a good enough job teaching respect for our democratic freedoms to those younger than ourselves. I like to think that Democracy could never die in America, but that is probably a naive way of looking at the world. We may be seeing the death of Democracy in America before our eyes.
The three richest men in America own more wealth than the bottom half of Americans, 170 million people, and when those three are overly engaged in the non-elected running of the country, it’s difficult to say we are living in a true Democracy.