Make America Great Again

When was America ever great? I know I can look back on our history and see about 500 events that weren't too great. But I'd have to say we were great in 1960 because I was born that year so that alone for me is great. In 1960 America had a great president, with great ideas. He ignited the country. But, the residents of the country murdered him and that's not very great. Also we were in a war trying to stop the spread of communisim of which some would say is great. But, innocent men, women and children had to die and that for me really takes away the greatness. A few years after our president was murdered on a city street the same murderers murdered his brother. In 1960 things aren't looking too great. I need to find something great soon or the entire decade will be wiped out in shame.

The music was great. There. Woodstock happened in 1969--a great time for sure. Can music alone overshadow the murders and war and return us to greatness? No. Murder can never be great. So the entire 60's there is nothing to indicate America was great, so we enter the 70's and I turn 10.

The number one hit entering the 70's was by Simon and Garfunkel--Bridge over troubled waters and that certainly summed it up rather nicely. We were in deep trouble and the song comes along and offers us hope.
"I'm on your side, oh when times get rough."
The replacement president was horrible and did nothing to get us out of the war victorious. An elected president in 1968 kind of gave Americans hope, but it didn't last long and Americans were arriving home daily in body bags. In 1970 the song War was released. Music turned on the war in the late 60's and was advancing into the 70's.
"War what is it good for--absolutely nothing. Say it again."
In late October of 1973 articles of impeachment were written up to remove the president. There goes his chance at ever being great. The president even attended the Bohemian Grove Satanic festival in the redwoods of California.

If he's so disgusted in it why multiple visits, "from time to time." It only happens once a year. To be somewhat fair to this president nearly every president has attended a secret devil club, or ones very similar to it starting with the great George Washington who was a member of the Freemasons.

The only real hope to save the 70's with a label of greatness is a war victory and communism is wiped out. But seven months before the articles of impeachment American troops flee Vietnam and hand the city of Saigon over to the communist Viet Cong. The disgraced president said, "the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come." Did American's work, and pray, and sacrifice their lives for absolutely nothing? It seems so.
"War what is it good for--absolutely nothing."

The next president assumed the duties without being voted in. It seems a pattern is developing--President Johnson and now Ford--one via murder the other via devilish shenanigans. President Nixon goes out in disgrace and his VP assumes the duties. I find it interesting that the newly appointed president once sat on the Warren Commission to investigate the murder of our first president in the 60's John F. Kennedy. The only reason the Warren Commission was created was because American's weren't buying the bullshit story of Lee Harvey Oswald. It's kind of side show to act like you're really looking into something. It's done in almost every government false event where americans challenge their version of the story. And let's not forget the murdered president ran against the impeached disgraced president in 1960. It might be safe to assume someone wanted the disgraced president in 1960 and not the president with the great ideas. Scrap another decade off the great list. I'm afraid to even look into the 80's. The music can't even offer a glimpse of hope. Bands such as A Flock of Seagulls and Duran Duran dominated the charts.

At least we were out of the Vietnam war. Hope for greatness. Hey, maybe that should be the presidential slogan, "Let's Hope We Can Be Great." However, war followed us into the 80's--seven to be exact. Mini wars, but enough to stay on the nightly news. It seems everyone wants a piece of us now. Perhaps after Vietnam they think we're a dog licking its wounds--a perfect time to strike. We drudge through the 80's with nothing great to be found. Three decades of my life have now passed.

I must fast forward into 2019. At the pace I'm going I'll be dead before I'm done writing this and that wouldn't be great. The 90's brought back some music to bring hope. Something called "the internet," appeared and money was flowing. But then the president entered into a sexual relations with a young girl and the nightly news was all sex and Gore. Another disgraced president. Another not so great decade. With 9-11 we can completely wipe out the 21st century all the way to the present. Around seventy percent of residents of New York believe their own government was involved with the bringing down of the trade towers killing thousands of their own people. I'll be 59 this year in late October--the same month Richard Millhouse Nixon received articles of impeachment in 1973. Almost six decades and I can't ever really say we could ever be considered great. A glimpse of greatness seems to get wiped out by complete stupidity and we start all over again. It's been awhile since I looked up the definition great. Maybe it's changed since I last looked it up when I was around seven. It has.





 Peace.