Virgil (Randy) Hall II

All politicians lie, the nation is going to hell in a hand basket, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Pick your flavor of conspiracy, multiple shooters for JFK, the existence of Illuminati, or President Bush masterminding the attack on the World Trade Centers in New York. Americans do enjoy the luxury of misanthropic attitudes. Is it a blessing or a curse?

Freedom and liberty, a most wonderful concept and a free press, a societal media free to opine on and explore the events and happenings of humanity. The masses in America increasingly are bombarded with information overload.  Newspapers and magazines, TV (cable and network), radio and now the Internet. Just what are we to believe?

From calls for a regime change in the U.S. to assertions that President Bush is pressing a new Christian Crusade against Islam by declaring; “God is on our side”.  Isn’t it wonderful that we can afford to luxuriate in distrust of our government?  While the peoples of other nations are tortured, executed or just plain disappear for voicing moderate opinions. Americans wallow in cynical depravity like hogs to mud, liberal bashing on AM radio or accusing conservatives of wanting to starve children and throw grandma into the street.   

It just isn’t possible that Mr. Smith in all of his naivety love of country and patriotism to publicly serve for any other reason than glory or personal gain.  There’s a smoke filled back room somewhere behind him, a corporate bid to buy political favor or union support for the exact same reason.  Even if Mr. Smith were to by fluke gain political office he would be marginalized or succumb to the trappings of power and compromise principal for political expediency.

It just isn’t possible that President Bush despite personal disagreements on domestic and foreign political agendas did a lot of hand wringing and soul searching before sending Americans to be killed in a foreign land. It just isn’t possible that he made his decision based upon the safety and defense of America; it just had to be for his glory and his agenda of American hegemony. It just isn’t possible is it? No, no that’s too cynical.

Doesn’t it just make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to be able to luxuriate in cynicism?  We’re paying the bills, feeding the family and buying that new house. Our politicians are hemming and hawing, politics as usual. Our neighbors are consistently there at home or at work, nobody is disappearing off our streets or being tortured at the hands of roving brown shirt political education squads. So what if all politicians lie? So what that there are no citizens of integrity or honor.

God I love this country. That isn’t too cynical is it?  That’s okay if you think so, as long as cynicism is a luxury I’ll wallow in it.