Americans love organized sports, victory and a well honed athlete. Most importantly, Americans are enamored with their favorite sports team and being able to rub salt in the opened wound of defeat on those who would dare cheer for another team. So it is with me (and many just like me) who prefer not only athletics, but violent sports like football. Not that European sissy stuff the rest of the world calls "futbol," actually known as soccer; no, I mean slam-into-another-human-being-at-maximum-speed football! I mean, rip-the-arm-off-your-opponent-and-beat-him-over-the-head football!
But what drives Americans to athletics and more specifically those sports invented in the United States but not necessarily embraced by those in other countries? The answer is not entirely complex nor overwrought with deep meaning which must be articulated in such a way as to give Issac Asimov pause or to cause Sigmund Freud to roll over in his grave. No, to understand our love affair with sports is to understand the indomitable American spirit of creativity and the will to win at all costs. We are a country founded on the precepts of exceptionalism, adventure and innovation.
Our Constitution dictates that we are a free nation--free to speak our minds, free to pursue happiness and wealth, free to worship in any manner we want and free keep and bear arms. These ideas were radical when they were penned, contrary to those of England and the ruling aristocracy. Indeed, they were the reasons we were exceptional and the most absolute description of who we are.
America's political structure is inherently comprised of the indomitable spirit found in our athletics and our love of sports. We love to win and we love to be forever in first place. Unfortunately, this drive in our political foundation has created a chasm so vast and so wide I fear our country will never recover.
Our desire to win and be first in politics has created two groups, not so dissimilar in make-up, but just different enough to drive a wedge between them so that the end game is winning a race, not maintaining that which made us great at the onset. That very document written on the backs of those radicals who sought to avoid totalitariansm is now inches from the teeth of a shredder. The ideas of The Constitution are questioned by those who desire power and authority over those they are supposed to represent and I find it disgraceful.
We currently hear calls for "gun control" and even some calls for "gun abatement," but lack the intellectual integrity to address real problems and care for those who would commit a violent crime before the crime transpires.
We fear stopping our government from spending our money when it is OUR MONEY. We lack the cognitive ability to question why our own government has become tyrannical, and while it screams "equality," what it desires is inequality--a separation of haves and have nots--to create an environment to placate groups of people squabbling over scraps while the elite eat, drink and be merry.
And so our government has become our favorite sports team; touchdowns are scored when parties win elections, the losers are those whose liberties are foresaken. In the end, we are all losers. I do believe our republic will fail until we once again have the intestinal fortitude to take back what is ours.
