I don’t write for people that judge things by its cover, or for those that view things superfically, or even for those who are simply looking to validate their opinions. All of these types will probably be repulsed by what I have written and I may as well save you the trouble and tell you to stop reading and go pick up a Peoples magazine or whatever you tend to read to receive that validation. No, I only write to communicate truth, clarity, and wisdom, something that is lacking nowadays in our information age, I know, ironic right? But today, I will write about our society and the people that are composed of it.

I am a citizen of America, young but gaining more wisdom everyday. I tend to have an avid interest of other people, and by virtue of this nation being the melting pot of the world, and my own tendency toward wanderlust, I tend to see and meet many different people of all types and with many different qualities. One thing that I notice, which many also feel in the back of their minds is that this our country is degrading and we are to blame.

If you desire to understand politics, first you must understand people, and I have discovered a number of things about people, and consequently about American Politics. If you take a step back, and just look at our country you will see that it is not a society per se, which is a unifed group of people living together in harmony. NO, you see a bunch of egocentric, egotistical, ignorant men and women, that would desire above all else power over one another, control over another persons beliefs, control over another persons behavior, control over what they wear, what they eat, what they watch, who they vote for, what they vote for, how they vote, what to buy, and the list goes on, and on, and on, and on, each looking out for their interest. Many different “interest groups” or better known as ego groups, trying to impose their ways on others by using Government Power because they have some sense of moral superiority that they “believed” to have claimed. Basically a new type of religons, even though the old ones are still vying for ideological hegemony. Have some added a benefit to society? Maybe, but for a large number it would be questionable, even doubtful. Evidence? Look at PETA, Any Vegan Interest Group, Islam, Christian Sects, Catholics, Democrats, Republicans, Gun advocates, Anti-Gun advocates, socialists, communists, Alt-right, Alt-left, conservative, Liberal, Progressive, Libertarian, Green, Unions, Industries,Finance, or whatever other I have missed, the number really is too large to count. Many hate or despise others that are different from them, but they are all men and women, all are citizens, all live within the same territory.

Now, what has been the result? Confusion? Conflict? All are vying for government power. All are trying to impose something on someone else. All are willing to resent and even hate those who don’t agree with them? Will work against politicians that may be working for the public interest, but because they do not want to work for THEIR SINGLE INTEREST, they are willing to smear, and harm said campaigns because they didn’t get what they want.

What does this have to do with society and the public interest? Well, in order to get elected people must yield to these special interests even though it may go against the interests of everyone. The political enviorment as it stands now someone that may try to run for office but has to bend to the will of all these different interests or risk losing their election. How could someone possibly bend to the will of every single person that believes they are in the right? and is willing to harm the public interest just so they can get THEIR WAY? Pouring money into the election of the candidates opponent because they didn’t get what they want. Running smear campaigns, and trying to destroy officials that do not agree with them. Consequently, what happens is politicians telling everyone what they want to hear and end up being sold to the higher bidder and statesmen being unelected for acting in the public interests. But people will sit and wonder why our country is in decline and has not recieved the necessary reforms we have needed for decades.

Citizens nowadays watch a couple news stories, read a couple of news articles on the internet and believe it makes them the smartest in the world, thay they are “woke af”, when on the contrary it makes them blind and stupid from their rampant egoism and ignorance. Like me saying I know everything that goes on in my neighbor’s home because I saw him a couple times through the window, or that I could perform a surgery because I read a few books on surgeries. When Knowledge and Wisdom are two totally different things. When I see citizens say things like we should pull out of the Middle East, or we should abolish the U.N because I FEEL such and such, it shows their amateurness and the lack of wisdom, and I understand why they are constantly decieved so easily by today’s politicians, because they shout down and are disgusted with the people that tell them what they don’t want to hear, or what doesn’t validate their opinions or whatever. It has been pretty amusing to watch, as they run around like a chicken with their heads cut off, never accomplishing anything, never improving upon what we has been built for centuries but seriously for the life of them, figure out why our country is in decline.

I fear for this country, because more of the same will occur. Because how will anyone make the reforms we need if it is deemed politically costly by existing politicians and there is no incentive to, or a would be statesmen that would try to make reform, but can not because it is not what people want to hear, or those with money and interests groups are opposed and willing to block any attempt to reform because it goes against their interests? Throughout history there have been only two ways that a nation collapses, First, if it is unable to defend itself and is conquered with war by another nation, or internal collapse. By us being the strongest nation in the world, the first option is out of the question, which only leaves us with one.