PURGATORIO

I'm tired.

I went to a Tea Party meeting tonight and listened to people talk about the healthcare plan, Medicare and pap smears. I heard talk about how Medicare was just not doing everything that it should and how Missouri may have a vote to abolish the real estate and personal property tax, if they can get enough signatures to get it on the ballot. I heard a woman complain that her husband's trip in an ambulance was not covered by her Medicare insurance even though the EMT thought he should go to the hospital.

The whole time I thought, "They just don't see it coming."

Our masters have got everyone focused on their own personal crusade, their own individual grievance, whether it be healthcare, cap and trade our anything else that looks inviting on the buffet. It's great that we are finally starting to get out in the streets, make some noise, but in the end, it really won't matter.

All of these normal expressions of political action won't matter when the banks close, the food is no longer on the shelves, we can't get fuel for the cars. When the entire support system that we have constructed to allow us to live comfortably and in relative safety disappears overnight, the number of pap smears that Medicare lets you get every year just isn't going to seem that important.

Even the politically active and aware can't imagine and don't understand where we are going.

In just a few generations, through greed, avarice, sloth and just plain damned not caring, we frittered away the single best political/economic system ever devised. A system of governing ourselves that I truly believe was a gift from God himself.

The Catholic Church teaches that before one enters the promised land he must go through a process of purification to clean his soul of the lingering effects of sin.

Because of our profligate and immoral lifestyle, America is about to enter Purgatory. We have much to cleanse from our national soul.

I'm tired.