Face Up, Wake Up

Recently I read a comment on one of the political forums that I frequent from time to time. I came across a post that basically blamed the president and liberals for all of the problems in this country. I don't understand cconservatives; they are OK with being screwed over by big business, but froth at the mouth at the thought of the poor(usually in their eyes, a dark skinned person) getting some type of help from the government. They tout the constitution, the founding fathers , founding principles, freedom and mom’s apple pie. The problem is, they love to romanticize the idea of America, but want to ignore the real America. They to like stick their chest out, and walk with a cocky swagger, and brag about how tough we are, and how moral and godly they are, and they know what’s best for America. They like to hearken back to all of the great accomplishments (and there are many) of the past and rest on those laurels. But it’s not real. They only want to see the America that we grew up with  in old John Wayne, Ronald Reagan films, or what we saw on televisions Leave it to Beaver,or The Andy Griffith show, or what we read about in history class (before the so-called revisions in history) and not acknowledge the problems that do exist. They don't want to see the real America. They have blinders on, and want to focus only on their imaginary America, where everyone new their place and no one stepped out of line. And  they look for and  gravitate toward  those who encourage and foster their false view i.e. Palin, Beck, and Limbaugh.

What they don’t see or want to see is that those three and others like them are getting rich by keeping conservatives in dream land.

Take off the blinders, we don't need any more feel good politics, we have real problems in the good ole USA that needs real solutions, not some pie in the sky ideology. I’m not saying that the liberals or progressives have all of the answers, but at least we will admit that there is something wrong. Conservatives lament the decline of this country, (Decline from what?), and want to take it back to a supposed purer time (whenever that was), well how about giving some real solutions, not the same old conservative mantra? Its like they tell you in any self help or rehab program,"You can't fix a problem until you admit there is one."