National Attention is a National Disgrace

I am amazed and dismayed at times about the focus of national attention. It is a sad and comical state of the conscienceless of society.

Serious issues confront the country and indeed the world. In this country we are faced with a national debt and a more or less bankrupt fisk. The government borrows billions of dollars each year just to pay its operating expenses (the Greek Syndrome). It has mounted up and is unsustainable. Our elected representative bodies barely function, paralyzed by the leaders themselves, influenced by rivers of money.  

The executive branch is headed by a feckless and arrogant President who ignores laws and has supervised the rise of international turmoil. Roads and bridges crumbling, the border a sieve, the highest court of the land makes up and judges social mores based on who knows what or fails to make decisions based on the law.

Lost e-mails, secret servers, harassment and cover-ups by tax authorities, class warfare, selective law enforcement, racial provocation and exploitation. Blacks shooting blacks without a peep for black leaders, Children who can barely read and write are passed along at schools Of course, the most important issue is who is on the twenty-dollar bill.

This may be an over dramatization but what is vexing is none of this seems to matter. Reality television, over obsession over so-pronounced celebrities are much more important.

Let’s take a look at Donald Trump. I find it difficult to understand why anyone would take him seriously or care a wit what he has to say, Indeed, he did utter some inarticulate, not well thought out gibberish about illegals Mexicans crossing the border. The interesting thing is the national attention it has drawn. Mr. Trump has been proclaimed an embarrassment, shunned, vilified even though there was some threads of fact in his statement and even though I have heard more venom come out of many a liberal mouth, equally offensive to many but without outrage or consequences.

The newspapers and airwaves are full of such tripe. Too much energy is wasted on items of such unimportance and the reaction-like lemmings- is usually over the top. It says a lot about our culture.

There is always a room for entertainment, gossip, and diversions. However, there is a balance and it seems to me the country for the most part  is focused on the inane.

By the way, Bruce Jenner is a man, no matter how he dresses.