For nearly a full three-quarters of a century we have been coming "back later."- Even all Republicans acknowledge later is no longer an option. The very conservative Republican US Senator from Georgia, Johnny Isakson, concluded his opening remarks with "This country cannot afford to get this wrong, because, if we do, we won't have a country."-
While it may be a problem common to other countries, I don't care. I don't live in any other country, nor do my sons. But the biggest and most serious problem facing us now is apathy; the absence of concern by Americans to inform themselves on an issue that, along the sentiment expressed by Senator Isakson, truly could prove to be the end of the line for the United States of America, as we know it today and as we might ever want it to be in the future.
Not caring sufficiently to take the simple steps necessary to become informed is, to me, the single most egregious attitude and behavior any American could take. On that, a willful ignorance, again, to my way of thinking, is tantamount to treason. Furthermore, all who have taken the little trouble it takes to become informed have an additional responsibility. We must collar our friends, our associates and our relatives, and demand of them that they also become informed. For if we do not, it seems to me we make of ourselves willing coconspirators in the treason. Given all the incredible economic burdens that are hard bearing down, while I agree with the Georgia senator on very little, I agree with him wholeheartedly on the last phrase in his concluding sentence: " . . . we won't have a country."-
