America Will Be Brought To Her Knees, In Prayer Or In Ruin | cnsnews.com
I know that I view the world through a whole different prism than somebody who is half my age or younger. Things that didn't cross my mind a few decades ago seem terribly important to me now. Living through a world war, the Iron Curtain, the threat of nuclear annihilation, recessions, booms, Jim Crow days, civil rights struggle and the explosive growth of modern technology gives me a different slant on things than someone born in the last half century.
I remember a time when the nation didn't find out who had won a presidential election until the wee small hours, or in some cases, the day after the votes were cast. There were always those who were pleased with the outcome and those who were unhappy about it.
But no matter which side won there was always the prevailing attitude and belief that America would survive, that whoever was in power could not do enough damage in four years that it could not be righted in the next election cycle, that the ship of state would sail on, no matter who was at the helm.
That has been my fervent belief all my life, that no one man or party was powerful enough to break the United States of America badly enough that it couldn't be fixed, that nobody would allow our nation to become sick enough that it would not be made well again once the healing process began.
I have lately had to rethink my position.
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