'What is wrong with Americans?!'

Her foes have become the head;
her enemies prosper,
because the LORD has afflicted her
for the multitude of her transgressions;
her children have gone away,
captives before the foe. (Lamentations 1:5 ESV)

Syndicated columnist Jay Ambrose, in an editorial I saw in this morning's paper, writes about the sad state of affairs that plague this country:

You look out right now at the presidential contests and the startling, dismaying probabilities, and it’s hard not to wonder if something dramatically wrong isn’t happening to America. It is. Too many things are falling apart... Trust has disappeared. The white working class is in agony. Family dissolution is a fact of life. The economy is poking along. The debt is racing along. And now we have this political reality show in front of us.

Even my wife exclaimed while watching the news this morning. "What is wrong with Americans?!"

What is wrong with us?

A broken world delivers in 30 minutes or less, piping hot and ready to be devoured by its customers who just can't get enough. Metaphors aside, we are getting what we ask for.

I join arms with Pastor Peters, whose blog I enjoy and who closes his post for today (Vulgarity goes Main Street...) with

Brothers and sisters, pray for our nation, those who seek election, those who govern, and for a citizenship who will demand a nobler character of those who would lead us.... 

Amen.