Are We Stupid?

For what it's worth, I'm not an old hand at this stuff although I do have a few thoughts, opinions, questions and views about Our Country and World and the state of both.

I find myself amazed at the situation of our Country; What happened in the past 4 decades? We went from a united Nation, making progress with improving racial relations to a Country so divided it's similar to the division during the Civil War...Brother against Brother, Father against Son, Daughter against Mother. Our Society has been downgraded, educational wise, to almost the lowest common denominator, where just showing up for classes in primary and high schools is enough to be 'pushed through' or as it's called, 'graduated'. We are raising another generation of semi-illiterate children whose only real values are with sex, drugs and hip-hop. An example: while working for the USPS for 18.5 years I had the mis-opportunity of experiencing high school students who had no concept of the phrase 'sign your name'; Why is it in one of the most advanced Nations worldwide this can be? The schools cannot be blamed, after all, they teach a curriculum far more advanced than when I went to public school. The students are sent to school but are they encouraged to learn by anyone other than their teachers? Parents lead by example, not by 'telling' their children what they should do...this is not to say that rules aren't worth the trouble of laying down and enforcing(it's highly necessary for this to be done), children will do as they 'see', not always what they're 'told'. In my opinion, the problem lies in the home, with the Parents; using the 'toob' and video games as babysitters is not the way to go, all that happens is the minds turn to mush with over-exposure. The 'toob' is another culprit of the degenerating of our Society, slowly, without a great fanfare, it has eroded the moral fabric that was instilled into America by our Founding Fathers...a belief in A Supreme Being...be it Jehovah, God, Allah, Buddah or my favorite, The Great Spirit alluded to by our American Indians.

We now find ourselves as a Country, at war with those that would impose their 'religion' upon us...at the same time, being free to practice their own religion without hinderence in America; Why is this? And why are we so willing as a Nation to allow it? Why are the wishes of a minority imposed on the majority? Why is it that people coming into our Country illegaly afforded the the same rights as bonafide Citizens?

Rome was destroyed from within, will we follow the same path? Your comments are invited and welcomed.

P5 Driver