No, no, I don't mean that! For goodness sake raise your eyes from the front of your trousers - and that includes you, ladies! I am referring once again to America. I sit here pontificating on its conditions and its direction - usually, 'directions' in the plural! - but really and truly I haven't a clue. I would suggest that geography is one of the key factors in attempting to gauge another nation. But how can you gauge America? It is simply so unbelievably, incredibly, gob-smackingly huge! It is beyond comprehension, which is perhaps why so many of their governments stumble and fail. Curious as to the statistics concerning size comparison between the UK and the USA I found this at travellersdigest:
They have tagged Ulster onto the side of Scotland to get in the correct square mileage. Here's another one in California which indicates that Britain is around 57% of the size of that single state! Texas alone is three times larger than the United Kingdom.
Today, in 'this our septic isle' we have some fairly virulent disagreements between the Anglos and the Celts, and also between the Anglos themselves. Everyone sits in their version of 'God's Little Acre' and, of course, the view is different and therefore on many things the views or opinions are equally different. Well, if that's how it is here, think what it's like 'over there'. What, for example, does New Mexico have in common with Minnesota? Or Alabama with Maine? Or Arkansas with anybody? (Jest kiddin', JK!)
A hundred years ago there were still the common ties of north-west European heritage to bind people together in Protestantism and the rule of law as practiced under the constitution. But today, I wonder. The southern border states are ripe for take over by Mexico given the huge influx of immigrants, the west coast has been inundated with Asians, mostly Chinese and Koreans. Now the Indians with their computer skills are swamping the high tech industries. On the East Coast whole areas of New Jersey are peopled with Russian immigrants. In the south, and in the big but ruined cities of the north, the 'indigent' black population - I call it that because they have been there as long as the whites - were beginning to emerge from their shocking history with hopes and ambitions but now, after years of malignant Left-wing agit-prop, they are returning to their ghettoes with an even greater sense of resentment and entitlement.
Meanwhile, at the top of this bubbling, sizzling, hissing stew of differing interests, mutal distrust and even downright dislike amounting to hatred, sits a Congress unable to agree on the time of day, and a President with emperor-like ambitions determined to spread the power and grip of a Federal government into every American nook and cranny!
I really fear for America. Tell me I'm wrong!
