Dissatisfaction, sadness and despair are not reasons to become unfaithful. I read these words in a Nora Roberts book. She is an author I really love and admire, but I am not so sure that this statement is a true one. She was speaking about a marriage and about how a father had used these reasons to break his marriage vows to bed another woman. In the mouth of her character, the child-now-grown surviver of such a marriage, why not just end the relationship? Break it clean instead of cheating, lying, tolerating and just existing.
I think about my government, the leaders of that government, both the ones out front and the ones behind the scenes, and wonder as a child of this country, how long they will keep living with their infidelity? A long time ago, these leaders became disenchanted with the rules and mores of our country. They saw that they were not able to accomplish their goals and dreams if they had to be bound by those rules.
They put in place secret societies that promised to protect their members from exposure in the event a member's lawbreaking became public. They called these societies important names like the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service and the National Security Agency. But, they were just secret societies, formed by a group of cheating husbands to lie for each other in case of need. They could not let the country know that they had abandoned their promise to defend the Constitution so they could make deals with organized crime and criminal businessmen.
The leaders said to themselves, we need to keep our plans secret, we cannot let the public know because they will not understand. We cannot let our allies and especially our enemies know our plans.
By saying this our leaders abandoned the idea of a free and open society. They walked away from a nation of law and stepped on the trust of their people. Another Nora character says, “People have their reasons for the damnedest things in my experience.”
Before a national leader can even be sworn into office, he or she is let in on some of the secrets of the secret societies and is expected to acknowledge a continued allegiance to them. A congress member is sworn to secrecy and may not expose the crimes of past and present leaders. The President is expected to continue the policy of keeping quiet and even approving of new crimes. All the cabinet officers are pledged to allegiance to the societies and not to the flag.
This is not right! We as a people have been violated. Our leaders regularly sneak out to screw around. If one of them should develop a conscience in some area of their actions, that leader is blackmailed and pressured into going along with the societies hidden party politics, and not with the way of open argument and discourse. These secret groups have grown in power with each election since World War One. They decide who will lead and where we will be lead. Banks and companies run by members are now too big to fail. Health care and even minimum financial safety nets are gutted even though the vast majority of the people in open election demanded otherwise.
I fear the people of my country, like the betrayed wife who has long known of her husband's infidelities put up with them and him in the hopes of somehow saving her marriage, have finally come to their senses. Now, we discover whether the divorce will be amicable or hate-filled.
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