Disconnected

Almost every opinion survey tells us a coupla things that have now passed into "facts" of Conventional Wisdom.

First, approval ratings for Congress are always somewhere down around 10%.  And yet, in spite of those numbers, sometimes 60% of us show up to cast our votes - obviously trying in some way to fulfill the promise of self-governance.

Second, approval ratings for US Military always come in up around 70%, but fewer than 1% of us are signing on to serve.

We've become extremely well conditioned to a weirdly reflexive Political Correctness that requires a basic hypocrisy.

We claim to hate The Government, but we love trying to make something useful of it.

And we profess an undying love for the Military, but we hate the tho't of wearing the uniform ourselves.

And God help you if you ever say anything like that in public.

Like my mom always said, "Conform and be dull".