{"id":4435,"date":"2017-10-31T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2017-10-31T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:21:07","slug":"american-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/american-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"American Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am back from vacation, reconnected with America as it was. I saw the Golden Spike National Historical Park, where the future happened and real things made real changes.\u00a0 I strongly suggest the Steven Ambrose book on the building of the railroad, as it encapsulates the energy and drive of great individuals astride a historic flow of change.<\/p>\n

A polished railroad tie marks the spot where they celebrated to achievement, having overrun each other’s track by 250 miles, at a spot selected by a committee of experts where there was no water for the trains.<\/p>\n

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Today I see Prosecutor Mueller playing his best cards to an audience of the media and the beltway, who will feast on it for days.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the NFL is ignoring most of it’s paying customers.<\/p>\n

The film industry is disconnected from the consuming public.<\/p>\n

The DNC still thinks a pro criminal stance is a winner at the polls.<\/p>\n

The descendants of the gandy dancers, the track layers, the surveyors, the game hunters, the fresh off the boat immigrants who came to live and breathe, the veterans of the War Between The States who went west, the campfollowers are still here.<\/p>\n

Many of those descendants still have that essential grit that made this country. They are not the audience for the various three card monte acts listed above.<\/p>\n

Our self anointed elites still harbor the hope of the blindness of the great unwashed.<\/p>\n