What can be done?

Slurping my cornflakes in artificial milk this morning, I realized I have no answer to the question, “What can be done?” I share the blame for the present condition of governance in America, having not noted until retirement either the political landscape or the politicians that enrich themselves in office. I thought about ‘our’ Barney Frank, a crooked gay, long-serving Representative now retiring not in disgrace, but in anticipation of marrying his long-time companion. What can be done?

Victor Davis Hanson penned the answers yesterday, but can they be implemented given the status quo? Americans with a great number of freedoms and rights ( we again fell a few notches on the Free Countries list in 2011), exercise few of our concomitant responsibilities. Victor worries that our country could be lost in a generation of these responsibilities cannot be reclaimed:

1. Respect for the law
2. A tough-minded education
3. Collective thrift
4. Private investment
5. Common codes of behavior and civility

No citizen should be exempted from these ‘rules’ but our Obama administration ( and previous administrations have been complicit) flouts these rules and encourages people to do so too.

1. Cold-blooded murderers rarely are executed even though given the death penalty.
2. The pouring of money into the ignorance pit, known as government schools, has not raised the level of or interest in learning for decades.
3. Virtually no one saves or sacrifices from their paychecks.
4. Virtually no one actively invests money for their retirement; instead they count on social security as their sole support when the time comes.
5. Name-calling and indecent dress partner with the never-ending search for insulted feelings which delight lawyers who reap financial benefits.

What can be done, for example, to overturn an illegal, judicial Roe v. Wade decision. If the major premise that human life begins at conception cannot be accepted, how can logical or common sense extrapolations follow?