Despite the promised “fixes” by politicians the news is so bad from so many different directions lately few people in America are guilty of thinking things can’t get any worse. As we wait for another shoe to drop in the way of bad news I recall the scene in “Doctor Zhivago” when he pronounces an old man had died from starvation, but such a thing was not “permitted” to exist by the new revolutionary government. The mad dream of a “workers’ paradise” does not admit of such things like starvation, they simply are not allowed. And being forbidden to speak of such things, they simply do not exist. Because of political correctness and so much in the way of “entitlements” and legal protection for so many minorities of every description and the ACLU determined to force Americans to make bricks without straw, while there are many evils threatening America we are forbidden to speak of them, so they simply do not exist.

It wasn’t an original thought of Thoreau pointing out trade curses everything it handles, and it wasn’t original to Jesus pointing out the love of money is the root of every kind of evil. And when I read about the shortage of flour in Pakistan I immediately thought of the same thing being the basis of the French Revolution. It seems an abomination the leadership of Pakistan can afford a nuclear arsenal, but because of a shortfall, corruption, and ineptness in government the ordinary citizen is having trouble getting flour. But will we face the rationing I recall from WWII once more here in America; in my opinion, yes. And with a worldwide famine being a real possibility the next shoe to drop may very well be a jackboot.

Yes, in my opinion the bread lines and soup kitchens are about to return to America, the contemporary version of “food stamps” will give place to the real thing. And so will the concentration camps be returning; but this time, like so many of our jails and prisons, they will be filled by Mexicans. Our troops will be coming home, but only because the situation in America will require them to police these camps and our cities, secure our borders, and prevent politicians and their corporate bosses from being killed, much in the manner they were in France when the people had no bread.

The reason for this dismal assessment is watching and listening to the abominable “choices” We the People are being offered by way of “leadership,” together with the Bush dictatorship having sold out and betrayed America wholesale. No matter how much blame may be properly placed on his predecessors in the White House, and no one damns the Clintons more than I do for example, I can state categorically the present Bush has run the country as though he owns it and has acted as a dictator. The tragedy for America is the fact the Congress being so totally corrupt itself has been complicit in encouraging this dictator and his predecessors, and despite the threats to our nation there is no hope of this changing to save America. The only “hope” for change will be the threat to America having taken on such magnitude only the military will be able to keep order and offer any security.

Whatever our “new world order” will consist of coming from the election of our next president, the only thing I can think of that we can depend on will be that scene from Doctor Zhivago. We are well on our way to this since so many things are already forbidden to speak of, and being forbidden to speak of they simply do not exist. The fact so many nations are now facing the circumstances that brought Hitler to power and enabled him and his evil twin Stalin to slaughter so many millions with impunity is not anecdotal. These circumstances come about by the same mechanism now threatening America and other nations.

One could almost have some sympathy for the present contenders for the Oval Office. Not a one of them dares speak of the things threatening America; none dare speak in terms of the specifics of how such threatening things can be resolved. And not daring to speak of such things, as per Doctor Zhivago’s accusation, they simply do not exist. But is America faring any better and are our prospects any better than any other nation led of tyrants like North Korea where such things as hunger and starvation do not exist because to speak of such things is forbidden? On the “bright side,” the situation with Mexico will demand a resolution once the “right” people are being threatened, kidnapped and killed, people like American politicians and judges. And the ballooning problems with overcrowded jails and prisons, gang warfare, demands for social services and the closing of hospitals and emergency rooms, identity theft, counterfeiting and forgery will only accelerate the “solution.”

I may not live to see some of the futuristic wonders promised by science and technology I would like to see, but my prospects are good for living long enough to see what I have just written come to pass here in America. Many of us who lived the events of WWII never deluded ourselves the sacrifice and horrors of that period of time would not return, especially when we began to reflect on the many lies our government had told us then and would doubtless continue operating in the same manner no matter what ruin they are inviting for America. In the meantime, while it is still possible my advice to law abiding American citizens who do not own a gun: Get one!