How can you be so crazy ?

When reading my previous post, the question comes to me. What on earth, and what in particular in this post, could cause anyone to justify splitting up such a wonderful country as the United States?

The United States is renowned throughout the world for having been a values and has acted boldy to end two World Wars in Europe and stood up against Communism. It is seen as the leader of the free world.

The question: How can you be so crazy suggests several possibilities: that the person in question may have a diseased mind, or that they have an overfertile imagination or simply that the position is unreasonable. I will reject the first two objections and retain the third.

I say I am not unreasonable because we are losing our values on which our country was built on, we are wasting time, and we are failing to listen to the warning signs from our own children.

Our country was founded as good example of the Judeo-Christian moral system, an excellent work ethic, and political democracy. I claim that for several decades these three values have been slowly eroding.

I say we are wasting time because of an across the board consensus on our foreign and fiscal policy and free trade. We are also wasting time because of an excessive polarization on other issues, specifically the culture wars. We are wasting time because we are unable to adapt our Constitution to the realities of todays world and there is breakdown of the separation of powers and our federal system.

We are not listening to our own children. When I grew up I earned of the existence of dissidents in the Soviet Union, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vaclav Havel, and Andrei Sakharov. While there were people outside of the political mainline in the United States, the idea of an individual dissident did not make sense. Today we find these dissidents in the Western world and they are young people. This is a bad sign, like a canary in a coal mine.