A Blog is a lot like talking to one's self. You think out loud and type your thoughts into the web with the faint hope that someone out there will see them and perhaps see something of value in them.
 When I started this one I had been active on several web sites and had been a part of several conversations that seemed to stir my mind to look inward. Then as world events moved onward my mind wandered and other things came to mind. I posted on terror in my last two posts and those were almost a year apart as I waited to look at what was happening around me.
  I feel there is something very wrong going on today. Here in the US we see clearly for the first time that our election process is a farce, and that a small group of party elites have been running the show and they work in cahoots with each other.
  Hillary has been promised, the slot as the first woman president and the powers that rule her party will stop at nothing to achieve that goal even if it means destroying the country as it exists under the constitution to do it.
  On the other side of the isle the republican party elites have long used the presidential candidate position to reward old party loyals for their service even if they have no chance of success.
  Both parties assume that the voters are loyal to their party and will vote the party line no matter who they send out front.
  There seems to be the very real possibility that the US as we know it, and have known it, is about to self destruct. A civil war looms on the horizon no matter who may win in November and neither party seems to give a damn.
  Perhaps its just old age and my natural paranoia at play here. But there are things happening that seem very wrong.
  The Republicans seem happy to cede control to the Democrats and them selves to second place. They also seem to have absolutely nothing for which they will stand and fight.  There is no issue or position that they will not compromise on or back away from. And there are the news stories of the Secret Service pressuring elected officials with blackmail over past indiscretions. 
  The Democrats have finally dropped all pretense of not being socialists/communists and it seems to have little effect on their base as generation after generation of college educated young people seem to embrace the idea. However these same young people are having a devil of a time living in the real world. Just a week ago a college campus went mad and students were scared almost to death when someone wrote the word TRUMP in chalk on a few walls. Not death threats or racial slurs just the word TRUMP.
   With the growth of immigrant enclaves forming in many states, and the recent tendency of these groups to form neighborhoods that retain their own languages and standards and to avoid integration and assimilation it is only a matter of time before traveling to another state is like traveling to another country. Complete with very different languages and laws.
  That so many of these immigrants are here with no permission seem to make no difference. That we have no jobs for them seems to make no difference. And that without workers paying taxes the government has no money to support them is just more of the same.
  I am afraid that Hillary may be more than the first woman president of the US, she may be the last president of the US. Because it won't be long before it all falls apart.