
Main street,my home town circa 1959.I wasn’t born yet,but my parents and grandparents were there for it.Post war America,boom time,everyone had a job,everyone had a purpose and the sky was the limit.Crime was non-existent,the drug craze and the sexual revolution hadn’t happened.Most people still attended church weekly,most young men and women still married and started a family.A new car could be had for $2000or less,a new house for $15,000 and opportunity was around every corner there for the taking.Conversations around town would have revolved around last weeks Baseball game,or what crops were coming in.There were downsides,the Cold War was ramping up and Segregation was still more common than not.By and large however times were good,but oh the difference a few decades would make.
Our law enforcement still had respect for the people and the people respect for them.Our political leaders still placed duty above leisure and our standing in the world was on a stable footing.
Today most small businesses are out of business.many have no sense of purpose and no sense of direction.Most young men and women don’t get married and don’t start families.Being able to afford a new house or even a new car means half a lifetime of debt.Conversation around town revolves around who has or is about to have a sex change and which bathroom they should use.Kids have no ambition beyond the latest video game and little prospects if they care to.
Our military is gradually being destroyed,not by an enemy,but by a political class that is just as comfortable selling the country out as they are at attending the latest social function at the country club.Our government violates our rights with impunity all the while preaching security like a low rent carnival huckster.Our politicians lie and violate the law and laugh all the way to the bank doing it.Our standing in the world is diminished to a ghost of what it was and the nation that did things not because they were easy,but because they were hard no long has the drive to get up off the couch.
The walls of our cities lay scattered and ruined our borders unmanned and unkept.The tapestry that was our nation is in tatters and the fools boast of it as if it were fine Silk.
Lord,forgive us for what we have thrown away.