Will The Fog Over USA Ever Lift?

By Coach Dave Daubenmire
September 11, 2014
NewsWithViews.com

Americans are in a fog. I don’t have any other way of explaining what is going on. For the most part, otherwise sensible thinking people cannot put two and two together and come up with four.

They are in a fog; as if the sky was raining down marijuana smoke on us. Pot smokers call it being “stoned”, and “stoners” is the term they use to describe those who live in a constant pot-induced haze. Has there ever been a time in America when “common sense” was so uncommon?

I’m telling you, it is as if all America is living in a Purple Haze. Jimi Hendrix made that phrase popular back in the 60′s when referring to the drugged condition that caused users to live in a fog. LSD guru Timothy Leary promoted the condition as “turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

It reminds me of the old saw about a man on the street interview where the interviewer asked a young man what the two biggest problems facing this nation were. “I don’t know and I don’t care” was his honest response.

Unfortunately, these are still the two biggest problems facing America. God-fearing Americans, in particular, are living in an apathetic haze. Confusion reigns. Satan is the author of confusion. At no time in my lifetime have so many cared so little about so much. Or perhaps it would be best to phrase it this way: at no time have they cared so much about so little. The only thingthey care about is what they care about. But what they choose to care about is so insignificant to what really matters.

Will the fog ever lift?

I have been hitting the Tea Party circuit recently as an invited speaker. God has gifted me with the ability to speak what should be the obvious in a way that can be easily understood. I had another such event last night.

The Tea Party is made up, for the most part, of what I call the gray-hair brigade. They are the group of rapidly aging Baby-Boomers who were drawn into the political battle mainly out of fear of losing their retirement and pension income.

These are the children of the “Greatest Generation” who spent some of the best years of their lives turning on, tuning in, and dropping out. But now that their minds have begun to clear and they can see the sun setting on their lives, they understand what we are allowing to be frittered away.

But the sad truth is that for much of their lives they were only focused on themselves and the ones they loved. They bought into the lie, as we all did, that “if it feels good, do it.” And they did. But now, as they shuffle into the twilight of their days, they realize that much of what they invested their lives into, has stolen the hope of their “golden years.” The “eat, drink, and be merry” approach to life they were encouraged to live has left them facing a future full of hunger, thirst, and anxiety.

One particularly concerned granny approached me after my talk last night and asked me in desperation, “Coach, what will it take to awaken people? It is as if everyone is asleep.”

Turn on, tune in, and drop out. Apathy has consequences.

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