No more benevolence

There comes a time when hope is no longer available, and so it is with the Democratic Party and the benevolent society created by Democrats. Furthermore, I say there will never be another Democratic president, mainly because Democrats are likely being written out of the election software by private corporations that provide the machinery for elections across our nation. Democracy in America is quickly getting bottled into binary clusters of ones and zeros. Why would private corporations allow their machinery to elect Democrats? Corporate stakeholders would make more money by electing Republicans who are more likely to deregulate corporate practices.

Our benevolent society began with the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation. These Americans survived the Great Depression and World War II, and made America great partly by accepting the Democratic Social Security Administration. Today, the last of these generations enjoy Social Security benefits until the very end. These generations have also enjoyed the benefits of Medicaid and Medicare, which were created by the Democratic Great Society during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.

Most of these Democrats are dead and gone, and so are their values. Republicans have replaced these Democrats, and it seems governmental welfare may not last much longer. The point is we must teach our grandchildren to try to survive in a new Austere Society where there will be no Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, no democracy, and no hope for governmental beneficence.

GENE MASON

Jacksonville