The Day after Decision Day
November 3rd 2010 13:15
While some may say that it is the divisiveness, spiteful nature and partisan wrangling of modern political campaigns that is at the core of the problems our legislators face when trying to come together on solutions to fix many of the problems in America; the facts force us to take a different approach.
A different approach that takes us to every Wednesday after Election Day when all the bitter feelings, exuberant celebrations and false assumptions help Americans wrap their minds around the events that happened the night before into one sloppy mosaic.
A mosaic that paints a picture of a nation that refuses to heal from the wounds that pass down from election year to election year and seep into the deep divide that has been created between the ideals of the big two political parties.
Ideals that divide us along lines that go beyond politics and dig to the core beliefs that come from different sides of the same society.
A day that was meant to bring Americans from every political party, religious affiliation or lack thereof, gender and sexual orientation together in new opportunities to work with the “new faces” on Capitol Hill has now become a day of mourning as American citizens from sea to shining sea sit on their hands waiting for the next bad thing to happen.
We have become an all or nothing society that celebrates the things that are closest to our hearts when a glass ceiling is crushed or the political organization we support is victorious but lash out in fear and anger when the other side makes the same accomplishments.
For decades this has slowly become the status quo but has also become counterproductive to solving the most basic problems facing American citizens across the landscape.
We have become a nation that only understands the world in extremes and expects the worst from sides of the conversation that doesn’t say all the things we want to hear.
The election of President Barack Obama served as chance for America to live the words of a political candidate that spoke of seeking to change the way Washington does business by bringing together different sides of the political spectrum after the American people had their say in the voting booth.
By the results of last night’s election this message was clearly lost by the Democratic majority in a decisive political shift that cannot be spun towards racism, placing blame on local issues or dirty partisan politics.
Once again, the American people have spoken and want change.
It is up to the new majority in the House of Representatives, a divided Senate and an Oval Office who has had their powers humbled to take this opportunity to reflect on the way business has been done for the past 10 years and decide to make real change.
It is only when all three branches of the federal government make the decision to drop party rancor in an effort to work together for the greater good that the United States of America is as strong as she can be.
Strength that is not reserved for our elected officials but is also the responsibility of the people they represent to hold them up the standards our forefathers set 234 years ago.
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A different approach that takes us to every Wednesday after Election Day when all the bitter feelings, exuberant celebrations and false assumptions help Americans wrap their minds around the events that happened the night before into one sloppy mosaic.
A mosaic that paints a picture of a nation that refuses to heal from the wounds that pass down from election year to election year and seep into the deep divide that has been created between the ideals of the big two political parties.
Ideals that divide us along lines that go beyond politics and dig to the core beliefs that come from different sides of the same society.
A day that was meant to bring Americans from every political party, religious affiliation or lack thereof, gender and sexual orientation together in new opportunities to work with the “new faces” on Capitol Hill has now become a day of mourning as American citizens from sea to shining sea sit on their hands waiting for the next bad thing to happen.
We have become an all or nothing society that celebrates the things that are closest to our hearts when a glass ceiling is crushed or the political organization we support is victorious but lash out in fear and anger when the other side makes the same accomplishments.
For decades this has slowly become the status quo but has also become counterproductive to solving the most basic problems facing American citizens across the landscape.
We have become a nation that only understands the world in extremes and expects the worst from sides of the conversation that doesn’t say all the things we want to hear.
The election of President Barack Obama served as chance for America to live the words of a political candidate that spoke of seeking to change the way Washington does business by bringing together different sides of the political spectrum after the American people had their say in the voting booth.
By the results of last night’s election this message was clearly lost by the Democratic majority in a decisive political shift that cannot be spun towards racism, placing blame on local issues or dirty partisan politics.
Once again, the American people have spoken and want change.
It is up to the new majority in the House of Representatives, a divided Senate and an Oval Office who has had their powers humbled to take this opportunity to reflect on the way business has been done for the past 10 years and decide to make real change.
It is only when all three branches of the federal government make the decision to drop party rancor in an effort to work together for the greater good that the United States of America is as strong as she can be.
Strength that is not reserved for our elected officials but is also the responsibility of the people they represent to hold them up the standards our forefathers set 234 years ago.
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