Lately I have been telling you how fed up I am becoming with politics.

It hasn’t been something that happened suddenly, but something that has been coming on for maybe the last ten years.

I grew up in an actively political home, and politics was something I ate, breathed and slept. Now I don’t care.

I have always exercised my right to vote in every election, whether it was a local election only or one that had national implications.

I have been proud of my participation in voting; a very precious right we all have and should use.

Now I’m beginning to wonder if I will even vote in the next Congressional and Presidential election.

While having my quiet time with God last night I heard myself saying, “Lord, please lift someone up who is capable of leading this country, and show us who that person is.”

This tells you how I feel about our current crop of presidential candidates in both parties.

History shows us the great dynasties have lasted about 200 years and then began to collapse from within.

Are we another Rome in the making? Has our time in leadership gone for good? Is it time for a new Roman empire, comprised of the EU states?

I can’t and I won’t blame just this president. It is something we have seen happening really since the sixties when everyone was protesting everything in the streets.

We have made a society of people who are dependent on the government for everything from cradle to grave, and have forsaken our heritage of helping our neighbors and family members through hard times.

We hold no one to a higher standard of helping themselves if we help them to get there.

Now we are fighting over immigration and can’t come to any consensus because the children of immigrants are so set in their minds they are the only ones with the right solution they would rather let it all go if they can’t get the whole cake.

There is no silent majority taking to the streets and public forum to demand justice. There are only Democrats and Republicans, and the ones we hear from are the very ones who are destroying our beloved country.

I am an American before I am a Republican.

Today, I shed a tear for a country I was raised to love, honor and respect.