In the United States, money always wins. Just watching the news regarding the climate change summit in Glasgow. Everyone agrees what needs to be done but who is missing from the stage? All the major polluters did not sign the pledge to reduce their use of coal. why? money. Too much money is being made and too much money is being pumped into political campaigns, thank you Justice John Roberts, for real change to happen. Can’t commit to what you know is right because the big business robber barons are still in power.

The real question is, is the science really correct on this issue. If it is, they are dooming the next generation to a world that is increasingly uninhabitable. Possibly dooming the whole human race, but hey, as long as they have their Mercedes, multiple homes, country clubs and tax write offs, who cares?

The United States likes to call itself a Christian nation. I suspect what it really is is a capitalist nation. Remember when George W. Bush tried to equate the two? What happened in Iraq and Afghanistan? Democracy? Not hardly. Not even capitalism could topple their inbred allegiance to a dictator. And in fact the United States has become more like their countries than the reverse. We now prefer a dictator, only one man who can save us from the terrors that are just over the horizon. We would give up our democracy, arguably the greatest nation on earth, not because of military power or wealth of natural resources, but because of the combined strengths of immigrants from every nation on earth.

What used to be the America dream, home ownership, permanent employment with enough money to educate the kids, take a vacation every year and retire at sixty-five, has changed drastically. Now, the ambition is to get in, make your millions and get out, putting your money where it can make enough to live on for the rest of your life. What kind of country is that? A money worshiping society where money always wins.