So, I'm addicted to lipstick.  What are you addicted to--I hope nothing that is damaging your body.  I hear that prescription opioid addiction is rampant in America.  Which reminds me of what they say about the fall of Rome.  It fell from within.  Rotted from the inside out.  And fell.  The way to conquer America is to wait.  We will die from the inside out if we don't get back to the principles we were founded on.  One nation under God.  His principles.  His priorities.

I can't help but remember that Rome began to use mercenaries to fight their wars.  We are now doing the same thing.  If you will sign up,  the government will pay you.  We have been in undeclared war for 14 years(?).  Those who are fighting it are not from a national draft.   And that being said, they are the only ones who have any skin in the game.  The rest of America just goes on doing what they have always done.  And the war goes on and on.

And those who sign up, go back, and go back--again and again.  They eventually get hurt, killed, quit, or end up with Ptsd.  Mercenaries.   Hired to do a job.  They end up being patriots who are not appreciated for the job they have done because the rest of America has no stake in the war.  Our sons have not been drafted.  We are free to go about our business.  Institute the draft and you will get the attention of every mother, father and 18 year old person in America.

The last time we had the draft, we were fighting a war in Vietnam.  The politicos thought that if we didn't get over there and fight that a "domino effect" would take place and that China and communism would move to take over all of those mid east countries.  The government drafted our young men to fight a war that we should not have been in.  And there was revolt on college campuses in America.  Young, 18 year old people changed the politics of our government.  We got out of the Vietnam war.  And communism didn't move in.  Neither did China.

Now, our business seems--more and more--to be addiction.  Addiction to things, drugs, sports, stuff, politics, money, sex, power--and on and on and on.   Entitlement.  We deserve all these things because we are Americans.  We have put our government into debt up to the hilt.  Trillions.  And China holds the paper.  They probably won't even have to fire a shot.  We have spoiled, glutted ourselves on God's blessings, and have discarded the God part of the equation.