Keeping It in Perspective

 Covid 19's greatest impact on America is perspective.  The most specifically effected system within America's infrastructure is our monetary system.   Why is it that America is being attacked from all angles, rather than being supported?  Have we lost faith in America and the American way?  It would seem so, if no one is taking the time to invest in, shore up, or support the "American Way."  We have lost the perspective of the "American way."  Why are we being attacked?  Why is a small band of extreme right radical elected officials trying to bring down the nation?  I do not know the breadth of a government shut down, but we have had them before.  Parks are closed.  Museums are closed.  Is it true the the salaries of the military are effected?  Consciously allowing the federal government to shut down is the opposite of what elected leaders should be doing.  It is a ploy to undermine American democracy.  Less government.  It is borderline terrorist.  Undermining the government and not allowing it to function is an attack from within the system.  It is being sanctioned by Donald Trump.  I didn't know what "gas lighting" was until Donald Trump and his influx of extreme right radical operatives.  They are attacking the American government from within.  If a deadly disease shuts down America (and we all ready have short attention spans) it would be easy to forget how America is suppose to function.  That is with freedom and not tyranny.  We have moved closer to tyranny in this skewing of perspective, which also is "gas lighting."  It is denying truth, or history, or science, or all of academia.  It is saying, "Anything goes," because we are in control.  The abstract consequence of this loss of perspective is value.  More succinctly it is the value of money, the American dollar.  Americans are being manipulated to pay more and think it is the appropriate value.  Does anyone remember when a fast food value meal was under $5.00?  This rise in the prices of fast food could be considered a result of inflation from Covid, but I think not.  I believe it is true that Covid dealt a severe blow to the world's economic system, and we have not recovered.  This mediocrity of goods and services is being made to seem nominal, because we are losing perspective.  The "American Way" was an example of how to do things well, honestly, and with freedom.  It was not tyrannical or authoritarian.  Our democracy was the goal and quest of the world but no longer.  Perhaps our forays into Middle Eastern oil through the Bush cartel turned sentiments against us?  This is when America was attacked on her home soil for the first time in recent history.  We have no recovered from the ramifications of the Persian Gulf War, our occupation of Afghanistan, and the implementation of Globalism, which basically sold out the American economy for cheaper labor.  Until we begin to produce products again and create our own unique GNP, the dollar will remain weak and prices will remain high.  Fast food restaurants are now ghost towns.  I don't understand how they stay in business operating in such a stagnated business acumen.  Lack of resources or supplies.  Lack of workers, and lack of patrons.  If they lowered prices back to reasonable levels, where American could afford to eat there, then business would improve.  At the moment America is floundering in most ways, and there is no solution in sight.  It is because we have thwarted a Communist overthrow by a hair, and the workings of this attempted coup continue within the federal government at the behest of Donald Trump.  If I hear the media say one more time that Donald Trump is the front runner of the GOP in the upcoming 2024 Presidential race.  What they are doing is proclaiming that half of America are traitors wanting to destroy American democracy.  We have an influx of Communist sympathizers, which is nothing new.  Once America highly was concerned with political support of the Communist Party, but again we have lost perspective.  While we have been fighting for our lives against Covid, Communism has infiltrated America.  Its effects are tangible and Third World.  Our cities are turning into ghettos.  The homeless are multiplying and roaming the streets, and most of this is being caused by economic disparity.  It's the economy in America that needs repairing, and Merrick Garland and the Justice Department have their hands full as our saviors.  It's called "White Collar" crime.  The headline today was, "A New York judge found Donald Trump and his family business fraudulently inflated the value of his properties and other assets."  If he is the front runner of the GOP in the upcoming Presidential election, then the members of the GOP condone and probably participate in this illegal behavior.  Many of them have been elected to the House of Representatives.  Governmental corruption therefore should be of high concern.  Possibly the most effecting lack of perspective is that of public health.  Not only has Covid assaulted Americans, corporate America does not care about the health of its consumers.  If it did it would consider the environment.  They are doing everything in their power to dismantle governmental regulatory agencies making pollution easier.  When did it become vogue to destroy the people and planet upon which life relies?  This only can be Satan, but Satan manifests himself through human form.  It is the only way to quantify warring, murderous, violence.  If Jesus, the Son of God, is who spread Christianity throughout the world, then sorely we need His message again now.  With the onslaught of "Cancel Culture," the disguising of purely American cultural heritage, it would be difficult to discern the "American Way."  There can be no doubt that corporate monopolies are responsible for the controlling of information.  Media in particular are guilty for trying to hoard and control the free flow of information.  More specifically the internet is their tool of choice, and it is streaming.  Digital content streamed by a provider is subject to manipulation, and before long we will not be able to tell reality from artificially generated images.  A.I. will implement through video media.  Through-the-air television signals are a more difficult target for propaganda, although most advertising today on free TV is deceptive and manipulative.  We have lost perspective of good and evil and right and wrong, and the media once was able to police themselves.  Everything in America that is American it would seem is under attack.  When my family purchased our house in Van Story Hills subdivision, we were attracted to the property because it abutted an elementary school playground.  Both of my parents were school teachers, so education was a part of our blood.  Never was this considered detrimental, and the local neighborhood school children once walked home through this path.  There are surrounding woods, but these woods were our playground.  With a new school principal, suddenly the adjoining yards she is considering a "war zone" and as a possible infiltration point for a school shooter.  The safety of school children is of utmost concern, and I can understand this perspective.  From those who live in these houses and are more familiar with the neighbors, this is an extreme perspective.  My property and yard are being criticized, because it adjoins a school playground.  If a school cannot exist in a neighborhood where parents and students live, where should it be located?  Military compounds are not the idea upon which our system of public education was created.  This is unAmerican.  It is Communist.  The underlying philosophy attacking America's freedom simply is Communism, a militaristic authoritarian form of dictatorship.  Donald Trump wants to be that dictator.  How can he be the candidate of choice for the GOP in the upcoming Presidential election?  The answer is those who support him seek the same goal, to destroy American freedom and opportunity.  This is accomplished by the disparity in the economy and the the unbalanced accumulation of wealth.  For America to work again, the economy and its philosophies must support everyone.  As of now it is being attacked for the continued gain of the wealthy.