Facing the Facts

What a nasty turn we have taken when Americans cannot face the facts. We are increasingly a class divided society; our wars are now fought by those on the underclass; at no time in American history has such a small percentage of Americans held so much of the nation’s wealth; the middle class is squeezed as never before and now has about the same purchasing power it did in the mid 1970s; and we have not won a war since W.W. II and we have already lost the war in Iraq. The debate is really over how to withdraw and call it a “victory.”

These are the truths that we must face and talk about if America is to claim its moral leadership in the 21^st century. We need the political leadership that will not be afraid of facing the truth and not covering it with symbols of false patriotism. Real patriotism speaks the truth!

Merle