I love my country, and there are still good people in it - but when I look beyond our little home and neighborhood, what I see is a nightmare version of America, a Bizarro world turned upside down, inside out. Not the country I grew up in.
The right and the left have both gone far wrong, and no matter how the politics turn out, the old order of thing in this country and abroad has been shattered to pieces and will never return. The clock never runs backward.
This old man has outlived his time. Things may get better eventually, or they may get worse - there's nothing I can do to affect the course of events.
I could say many other things about politics and society, but that's all I can manage for now - except God bless America and God help us all.
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I don't feel like singing today, but here is the late, great Kate Smith with the song she made famous when my dad was in England serving with the U. S. Air Force, and my mom was working in a defense plant here in Texas, turning out artillery shells:
Love is not what you say; it's what you do.
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