I was on the Occupy-Wall-Street-vibed bandwagon of being a hater. Hating on my government, on Wall Street, the banks, foreign influence.... From the rise of the Tea Party to everything that followed, there has been a paralysis in our government. What I'm going to say does not excuse the Republicans that aim to derail the current administration at any cost. They ought to face whatever punishment we have in store for them.
But what is in store? Just voting them out?
And on that note, I think it's time we lay the blame for this gridlock flatly where it belongs. It's on us.
Maybe we aren't a perfect union, but in building this union, some rules and principles were adhered to rather strictly; the biggest one arguably being that our government must be of, by, and for the people. The two-letter word I want to focus on here is "by."
We went to the voting booths (or neglected to do so) resulting in a near perfect divide in our government. That's By the people. We elect representatives to represent what? Us. They represent the majority of the area that they represent--the majority of the people and their thoughts, beliefs, and sentiments--and the result is a government so equally divided that in this tug of war, the flag isn't moving. At all. This battle was created By the people.
The government IS representative of US. We are divided, as a people. One man thinks that the right is catering to the rich not as a way to create jobs and have the goodies overflow in that Reaganesque trickle-down economy, but in order to maintain their money lines. One lady thinks that the left is a socialist-communist plot to take away all of the money from the rich and distribute it to the poor and that it must be stomped out like a bad street gang.
WE are divided. Our government is a perfect spectre of what we are at any given time; this government that was put in place By the people. That means that about half of America is for Obama, his job bill, getting health care for all Americans and protecting social security and Medicare. An equal amount of folks are for protecting big earners as job creators, and warding off that threat that the poor (a.k.a. those too lazy to work who want to take from them, a.k.a. the system) bringing them down. Who's right? Doesn't matter.
I believe what I believe as a moderate with a slight-leftward tilt, and who cares? What you should care about is not only that this current government slam-dance is not of their own doing, but more importantly that we created it; not intentionally, of course, but by just voting for who we believed in, who represent what we believe in; who represent us. We created this government, By the people.
America's government is exactly what the people have made her, so stop blaming her and instead, ask yourself why we are so evenly divided, and how to either reach deeper understanding on both sides and the center or to jolt us one way or the other or this tank ain't moving out of this mud-hole anytime soon.
But what is in store? Just voting them out?
And on that note, I think it's time we lay the blame for this gridlock flatly where it belongs. It's on us.
Maybe we aren't a perfect union, but in building this union, some rules and principles were adhered to rather strictly; the biggest one arguably being that our government must be of, by, and for the people. The two-letter word I want to focus on here is "by."
We went to the voting booths (or neglected to do so) resulting in a near perfect divide in our government. That's By the people. We elect representatives to represent what? Us. They represent the majority of the area that they represent--the majority of the people and their thoughts, beliefs, and sentiments--and the result is a government so equally divided that in this tug of war, the flag isn't moving. At all. This battle was created By the people.
The government IS representative of US. We are divided, as a people. One man thinks that the right is catering to the rich not as a way to create jobs and have the goodies overflow in that Reaganesque trickle-down economy, but in order to maintain their money lines. One lady thinks that the left is a socialist-communist plot to take away all of the money from the rich and distribute it to the poor and that it must be stomped out like a bad street gang.
WE are divided. Our government is a perfect spectre of what we are at any given time; this government that was put in place By the people. That means that about half of America is for Obama, his job bill, getting health care for all Americans and protecting social security and Medicare. An equal amount of folks are for protecting big earners as job creators, and warding off that threat that the poor (a.k.a. those too lazy to work who want to take from them, a.k.a. the system) bringing them down. Who's right? Doesn't matter.
I believe what I believe as a moderate with a slight-leftward tilt, and who cares? What you should care about is not only that this current government slam-dance is not of their own doing, but more importantly that we created it; not intentionally, of course, but by just voting for who we believed in, who represent what we believe in; who represent us. We created this government, By the people.
America's government is exactly what the people have made her, so stop blaming her and instead, ask yourself why we are so evenly divided, and how to either reach deeper understanding on both sides and the center or to jolt us one way or the other or this tank ain't moving out of this mud-hole anytime soon.
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