We hold these truths to be beyond question.

Everyone has the right to life, Liberty, and happiness.

Everyone includes the young, the old, the teen, the middle-aged, the straight, the gay, you, me, and the stranger, too.

This nation was founded on those truths.

Those truths of our Republic are absolute then and now.

What isn't true is the haphazard barstool knowledge that too many Americans bring to how their government works.

Too many rely upon urban legend.

Too many rely upon personal myth.

Too many rely on the know-it-all at the end of the bar for answers.

Too many gather together to tell each other stories with no basis in truth.

It's a sad truth about humans that the real reason they gather together, like minds, is to support each other's prejudices.

That prejudice doesn't exclusively mean racial.

No.

It also includes those who like to sew quilts.

Those who like to fix up old cars.

Those who believe their God is superior to 'those' people's God.

People stick together because they enjoy each other's company.

That's a no-brainer.

They like what each other says.

When was the last time you joined a group or were in a conversation that pointed out how wrong you were?

How wrong you were every time you joined in a conversation.

Many Americans believe that the government is wrong and corrupt.

Why?

The answer is easy because it's the same sentiment that countless generations have expressed over and over again.

That sentiment is because the government isn't doing anything for me.

If the government isn't helping me, then damn them let the whole thing burn down.

John F. Kennedy famously intoned at his inauguration, Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

It seems many Americans have either forgotten those great words of civic responsibility or chosen to do the easy thing and join the nihilist crowd.

The Nihilist Crowd is a non-exclusive group of people with no party affiliation who want others to take on their responsibility and hand them their due.

All the while complaining that doing anything to help make your community, your home, and your life any better is a waste of time.

Everything is corrupt.

Our Republic is in desperate need of its citizens to pick up their civic responsibility and join in the fight.

There needs to be active participation and an intense realization of how government works and who it actually works for.

We have to end these urban legends, these tropes used by scalawags the world over telling us your government doesn't work for you.

However, the big secret is that when the government isn't working, that's precisely what these nihilists want.

It's not working for them.

Frankly, it's a very sociopathic way of thinking that everything is corrupt, so why bother doing the right thing when something wrong will work just as well?

Somehow, two concepts got lumped together.

Change equals corruption.

For this, nihilist anti-community, anti-republic, anti-ethical thinking has adopted the idea that any change is corrupt.

Freeing the slaves was a corruption.

Giving women and blacks the right to vote was a corruption.

Allowing black children to go to school with white children was a corruption.

Black and white people marrying was a corruption.

Welfare is corruption.

School lunches are a corruption.

Taking prayer out of school is corruption.

Allowing gays to marry is corruption.

Having a black President is corruption.

To the nihilist conservative mind, all of these changes are corruptions of how they believe the nation was founded and for whom.

Have you ever seen that picture of Jesus at the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the creation of the Constitution, too?

Change equals corruption.

And anyone wanting change is corrupt, too.

It's no wonder that so many Republicans believe the government is corrupt.

We're not talking about corruption like stealing money out of taxes…

No!

The corruption that the conservative nihilist believes is taking place is the corruption of traditional values of white purity to be perfectly clear and honest.

Consequently, why so many support this current President, even in the face of boldface criminal and personal crimes and corruption, is because of his verbal stance supporting conservative nihilism, as I'm calling it.

Recently...

Judgment day…

This past Tuesday, the American people demonstrated once again that they heard the call of Liberty and have come running.

The third nationwide election and Republicans got their walking papers handed to them once again.

They may rail against change and call it corrupt all they want.

But change comes like the rising of the sun without our permission.

It's a beautiful thing when you're in harmony with the tide.

The nature of the universe is based on one truth.

Everything changes.

You can't stop the sun rising.

Peace

Daniel J Frey aka Toby