Once there was a Democrat President who was unflinching in grasping leadership. It was before the party had fully embraced the concepts of a welfare state, before we had descended into the morass of Vietnam, before we had entered the hedonistic years of sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, before the civil rights movement had fully taken off. It was a Democrat who had a dream. He had a vision for the future. He was a Democrat who still had pride in America, who had served his country in war, who had gifts of birth but still a sense of obligation to the nation which had given his family these opportunities.
Remember this?
Much has changed since then. We met his challenge and showed the world what we could do. But then we abandoned that sort of ethic and began our inexorable descent into dependency, doubt and guilt.
Today, the legacy of this great challenge is reduced to this:
NASA's Last Hurrah and Fuzzy Future
We're reduced to unclarity. We would rather squabble about how much welfare should be given to whom and how much wealth should be confiscated from where. We haven't exploited the moon or even revisited in nearly 40 years. We beg the Russians for a seat on their old bus. The bureaucracy which is NASA follows the same ruts as so many other governmental institutions. It perpetuates itself without a greater goal.
Does the current administration really have any of the fire left that is demonstrated in that fifty year old video?
1 comment:
No, they don't, and they never did.
The current administration is about substantially increasing the divide between those in power, and the rest if us.
They could care a rat's behind about the future greatness of the United States.
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