So much to do
and so little time…
There is, as
usual, the correlation between the body politic and the body of an
individual. We are in a situation, nationally,
the same as any one of us would be in as a result of incision, laziness, fear or
plain procrastination. There is not one of
our nation’s ugly situations that could not have been, honestly and effectively,
taken care of years ago. Our politicians
and lawmakers have consistently acted not in our country’s best interests but
instead have based their decisions on the ballot box. Our people have enforced that ignorant
approach to governance by our what “I want”, selfishness and the “gimmee”
syndrome. Our politicians are like any
other animal on our planet that gravitates and relies on the easiest means of
gaining sustenance. They have learned the
easiest way to maintain their positions as elected officials is to basically
bribe and promise the electorate anything that gets the sheep to follow the
gift truck. We are experiencing the
result of a chosen parent who has decided that their two year old child is
capable of making decisions for the entire family. Politicians who cave into the tantrums of ill
informed, angry mobs in order to collect them into ideological herds that will
repay them at the ballot box, are traitors to their ethical purpose.
Quite a few
of us, who are attached to the more conservative ideologies, are upset with
POTOS 44 for “kicking the can down the road” need to be honest. It ain’t the first time all those cans got
dented and a bunch of those dents bear the conservative footprints. Sadly, that “give to get” buy the vote is not
the fault of the politicians, it is the fault of whoever has failed to teach how
to make rational well informed choices.
What the individual wants is not always what is best for the all. One of the titles “The art of Selfishness”,
pointed out that not all selfishness is bad.
Our country can only sustain itself out of a position of strength on all
fronts, out of a sense of cohesiveness and unity that gives opportunity to each
and every one of our citizens. That type
of system will only continue if it is governed with factual, logical decisions
that will give our country the ability to survive. The demise of the USA will affect you, me and
most of the free world in a detrimental fashion.
Our nation
came about through the belief that all men are created equal, that all men have
the right for self-determination and the right to choose. Those tenants cannot be ensured for all of us
if we are ruled by the squeaky wheel of selfishness or by the whoredom of
political vote purchasing. Good choices
are not going to be made by a society that allows itself to be separated into
groups by propaganda that has led individuals to believe that “they” have been
and are being treated unfairly by some other group in our country. Some degree of truth is always a part of
propaganda and that is what makes it so insidiously effective. Unfortunately, like in the case of racism,
there are still some pockets of that occurring in our country, but, not all
white people, not all people of color, not all Hispanics, not all men, not all
women, not all democrats and not all Republicans, not all the wealthy and not
all those on welfare are screwing you over or anybody else. The odds are that
anyone preaching with the word or the inference of “ALL” is trying to influence
you with some form of propaganda and are lying to you. As individuals we each have an obligation to
our neighbors to be reasonable and knowledgeable about the subjects we are
asked to vote for. We have an obligation
to be honestly and factually informed before we jump on the bandwagons
(demonstrations) of anger that result in personal and property damage in order
to bring awareness to a “problem”. Just
a thought: “not everything I believe is true and not everything you say is
wrong.” One thing I am 99% sure of, is the statement I just made is true of you
too. We need to start moving our feet
out of ideological concrete and start looking for points of agreement rather
than the “me
right, you wrong” disbelief that puts an end to reason and discussion.
The results
of “kicking the can” have our nation on a very precarious cliff with another
cliff just about everywhere we turn.
North Korea, Iran, Russia, Syria, Afghanistan on the international
Military cliff; our society torn apart by the practice of dividing us into
racial and economic components; vicious crime and murder rate in our cities are
just a few of the problems that should have been handled and were not.
The solutions
for immigration, DACA, our border is not really all that impossible to see
solution for, but because of politics the obvious answers are not coming forth. It should not be that difficult but due to
desired appearances, or optics as it is called today, common sense does not and
will not prevail. Stop the illegal
border leakage, set up a reasonable means for those under daca to gain
citizenship, give illegals a opportunity to become legalized, set up a visitor
work program for those who seek employment in our agricultural supply
chain. These all have a way to come to a
logical, comprehensive and compassionate solution once we remove the politics.
The answer to
ending our longest armed conflict in Afghanistan would not still be happening
if it were not for the political correctness of trying to appear as the most
humane nation in the history of mankind.
Guilt over the bombing that ended WWII has been politicized to the point
of not completely fighting the conflict with the intention of winning.
As for our
national debt… if it were your debt, just how much would your be willing to
increase your debt load if your earnings were dramatically decreased?
Open your
eyes folks, and be totally honest. We
must survive in order to help any one.
God bless our
country, our society, our warriors. Help
us to understand and to love our fellow man.
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