REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

A DREAM BECOMES REALITY AND THEN DIES.

Two hundred and fifty plus years ago a dream was born in the hearts of Americans that one day they would become free of the oppression of the tyrannical foot on their necks wielded by Great Britain.
This dream developed into a movement unrivaled by any people who had ever inhabited the planet.

After years of prayers, planning, and perseverance the days of Declaration and eventual victory were realized. A treaty was signed, a Constitution draw, and the great American experience was at last under way.

Many years passed through wars and trials but the experiment developed into the greatest nation the world had seen or will ever see. The world clamored to our shores for a taste of liberty, freedom, and opportunity. The melting pot was awash with honest hard working people whose only plea was for a chance. They were rewarded with the fruits of their labors by establishing great factories, small business and mom and pop store fronts. Workers in these enterprises were rewarded with salaries commensurate to their talents and not to the abilities of their negotiators.

But then, the dysfunctional years of the 1960s crept in like a slithering snake and slowing, insidiously, began to infect our country with a poison that was so subtle that even the most vigilant were unable to detect. However, before the destruction of our dream was complete the good and believing people of America began to feel the ever growing danger of complacency and reacted with dismay but very little constructive movement. The destruction continued and by the late seventies and early eighties the damage was seemingly irreversible.

There were a few years of hope for a resurgence of American exceptionalism in the eighties and early twenty first century, but the enemies of the USA were entrenched so solidly that to rout them seemed to be an impossible task. And so it seems still.

The reelection of Obama was, it seems, to be the finale. What was great is no more. What was holy is impure. And what was just is corrupt.

It is often said that good people are lazy. No, lazy people are not good. Those who stay home and allowed the evil elements of our society to rule are as guilty as the Christians and Jews of Nazi Germany who said nothing as Hitler destroyed lives and country. After the carnage of that maniacal vermin the cry was "never again," however, the cry has been forgotten.

And so the dream has become a nightmare and the great hope of society has become a "what if." A what if that has paused for a requiem.