Another reader bcomes a blogger

I've been reading blogs for some years now. I begin writing one for no other reason than to please my wife. If someone else finds this interesting, all the better.

We aren't exactly on the road to perdition, but we are out of the driveway and have our left turn signal on. I fear for the way of the West. Will our entire country go into a nosedive as the result of one presidential election? No. Are we another couple of steps forward in our march to the rule of the state? Yes. The main thing that has been keeping Western democracy afloat is the power, both economic and military, of the United States. Our new President an Democrat controlled Congress seem intent on diminishing both. They want us to be better liked in the world. Being feared seems a bad thing in their eyes. It's the fear, however, and not the adulation, that has been the mainstay of our current level of civilization.