Today is kind of a strange day for me.
I am both sad, frustrated and despairing, but I am also in a way happy and for the first time in a long time, I am free.
I am sad because the greatest nation on earth has decided it no longer wants to be either great or a nation. It will, probably within my lifetime, shatter and dissolve.
I am frustrated in that many Americans decided that immediate gain was more important than the future of their children and grandchildren.
I despair over the fact that the Constitution of the United States has now become nothing more than an interesting historical document and that the Declaration of Independence has become totally irrelevant. i despair because the sacrifices from Lexington and Concorde, to the French hedgerows, thru the waters of the Rhine, on the beaches of Guadalcanal, the Philippines, and all the pacific islands have just become meaningless. We as a nation have sold our birthright for nothing at all.
Yet, I am also happy in a way. No longer must I hold the needs of my nation more dear than my own, fo it is no longer the nation I swore my oaths to. My constitution has been shit upon, used as toilet paper by politicians and lawyers for years. As of today it is a dead letter. the oath I swore to uphold it no longer has any value.
I am also free. For almost my entire adult life I have done all in my ability to protect my constitution and nation from the forces that would destroy it, both internal and external. I have lost the fight. the American people have decided to destroy themselves and there is nothing I, or any other, can now do to save this country.
This means I can concentrate on saving my own, my family and friends from the worst of what is coming.
Guess the rest of you are trying to do the same too.
Yep, I am free of a burden I willingly carried for most of my life, and so should feel better. Yet I only feel like getting a good drunk on and crying.