The Endless Cycle of Anger and Missing the Signs that Point in the Direction of Getting it Right
July 26th 2009 18:48
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
~ Confucius
~ Confucius
As we watch the gates crash around the prophecy of hope and change an easy response would be to jump on the band wagon that says “Republicans can do it better” or to bash everything that is built around what we suspect was a political power play to tip the scales that exist to maintain a balance of power…
For the people who have followed the conversation over the past year we have had many discussions about the products our society creates when we twist the gifts of our forefathers into weapons of spite and malice.
History has continued to repeat itself over the decades and we still go into the voting booths with our minds set to mend hearts broken by false promises with the intention of shoving it to the guy in office.
In recent years we have all been witness’s to the products of the short minded arguments as we continually blame the other side for making mistakes in electing people that don’t agree with our political beliefs.
The time has come for each and every one of us to take ownership of the situation instead of grabbing our pitch forks or forming parade’s for every change in oval office power.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle are taking our simple requests to fix the mine fields of partisanship from years of bloody battles and are warping the issue into closed door finger pointing tea parties while they use the American people as pawns.
Politicians being politicians doesn’t bother me as much as the sight of misguided anger on the part of the American people to continue to throw sludge into a toxic pit of media bias and political double speak.
The signs are all right in front of our faces as both parties continue to make the same laundry list of mistakes by blindly adhering to doctrines of party heads whose interests come in packages of radical agendas.
Radical agendas that formed a witch hunt of patriotism to authorize a war initiated to hunt weapons of mass destruction.
Radical agendas that try to convince the American people that the only way we can climb out of a recession is to build up even more debt.
Radical agendas that would increase the minimum wage in the middle of a recession that has produced record high unemployment numbers because businesses are barely treading enough water to keep their doors open much less pay employees more.
The equations are simple but the blind lust to follow decades of agendas instead of paying attention to all the signs that are right in front of our faces is going to be our downfall.
The more I hear the whispers about the things to come in 2012 the more I understand what every philosopher warned us about centuries before the first American flag was ever sewn.
Our greed and blindness will be our down fall and the crazy thing about it is within the fact that we had everything on the table to take the opportunity to wake up the American people and rally the public behind the idea of true change but used it to point our weapons at each other in the same war that caused the problem.
For every time I hear a survey that says the American people believe that George W. Bush caused all of our economic problems as opposed to the passing of blame to both Houses of Congress and previous Presidents representing both parties it makes me even more fearful of what’s to come.
Beyond the wave of storms, flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes, new diseases, famine, regional conflicts and a possible world war are the things we can fix in our nation to be ready to deal with the things that are not within our control.
Fixing the Environment, Becoming Energy Independent, Election Reform, Curtailing Special Interests, Educating our Children and Fixing the Economy will never be issues resolved along party lines or in a campaign pitch through creating jobs for campaign donors.
If these problems are ever going to be truly fixed it has to be an honest bi-partisan effort from a group of politicians who are serious about fixing the messes of our own design and not setting up re-election bids or presidential runs.
What we are missing is earnestness and honesty from our politicians and the only fruits we are getting back from our endless devotion to their political endeavors is road blocks to things getting done.
Things that will reflect in fundamental changes that improve the lives of the average American and help make our country a better place to live.
Lost in all the sensationalism are the discussions concerning the raw issues which are automatically filtered into blue and red boxes according to which party is supporting them at one time or another.
There is not a rational person in the conversation who does not sympathize with the broken system of health care nor is there anyone who does not believe that our schools should be held accountable for the money that is given to them from tax paying citizens.
What’s missing between the core fundamental beliefs and the bitter battles that are happening on the halls of Capitol Hill is rational conversation caught between extremes.
Something isn’t working and it’s time for someone to turn on the lights so we can actually see the roaches scattering.
It’s only when we let our anger blind us, stop paying attention and fail to ask questions that we run the risk of losing everything so many men and women have fought and died for us to have.
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