I, like many people, am stupefied, angry, mortified, embarrassed, frustrated, chagrinned, mystified and perhaps a bit dumbfounded. How out of the seemingly endless possibilities of electoral permutations did a once great country get reduced to having to choose from a pair of first class psychopaths that represent no one’s interests other than themselves? A serial liar con-woman vs a gaffe a second homunculus. Really?

I am bemused by pundits who speak of America’s sunsetting from the world stage as if it was determined by a preprogrammed autopilot. Some extra terrestrial force is guiding our ultimate demise. Really?

So here is the dirty little issue no one likes to talk about. America’s decline is real, due to a steady dwindling of hard and fast values. Some how, we have been programmed to believe that we can have it all and do whatever we want good, bad, horrible or indifferent, to whom whenever, whenever we want. The rapid loss of societal values is crushing this country faster than Danica Patrick at the Indy 500. Lie, cheat, steal, rape, murder, push drugs, abuse of children. Shoot police. Keep going, Hell at this rate is not that much further than the tip of South America. And it’s inching north while you are not looking.

The swill we have been left to select from are a reflection in many ways of our current society. If it doesn’t make you puke, it should. It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s what we have selected. It’s who we have become. Look around you.

There is a very desperate lack of leadership here, right now, that is shaking America to the bones. On this current path, there won’t be too many “wake-up’s” left. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is no magic spell forcing America to chase the path of the fallen Rome.

Angry people often make very poor choices and America is very angry right now. We reap what we have sown. When you wake up tomorrow choose to make a difference, one good deed at a time.