New Years Resolutions In Radical Independence...
January 4th 2009 17:41
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock."
~ Graham Greene & Orson Wells
~ Graham Greene & Orson Wells
Well before the ticker tape parades and the balls began dropping across the globe I began thinking long and hard about how I wanted to approach the year of "2009".
Visions of financial pain, anger, strife and peril within the borders of our shores coupled with the current and impending social and financial crisis across the globe all forced me to look down the same road…
This road isn't packaged up with a bow and ribbon of "Change" nor is it smothered with a response of telling everyone to hide under the desks, duck and cover in fear but it is simply prepared with the pledge our mainstream forms of media have not kept with the American people.
This pledge that was signed and dotted by our forefathers and was put in place to promote the conversation among the American people rather than becoming the median in divide and conquer political science strategy.
The political czars and media barons aren't providing the people with the whole truth and there comes a time when someone has to stand up and say enough is enough.
In this year of "2009" my goal is centered squarely on doing just this…
Conversations about race, religion, gender issues, terror in and beyond our shores have to be discussed beyond Election Day and our leaders have to be held accountable for the votes we entrust them with.
Maybe it's me but I'm having a hard time finding anyone who can tell me everything fine and no one should worry beyond those who are pocketing money from the very institutions that caused the problems we're facing in the first place.
Our financial institutions and system of government are complex beasts that that should be packaged with the "handle with care" sticker but as in every major society, when things go too well people forget the consequences of letting the system get out of control and greed becomes the ruler of the day.
The time to control this greed should be now but we have become so engrained with belief of money fixing everything we are willing to pull cash out of every crazy place thinking that more fuel on the raging inferno has to be the solution to all of our problems.
The decisions about how our government is going to fix the financial mess were made a long time ago and the strategy is clear. These are our elected leaders and the mistakes that are being made will have clear repercussions when the pendulum swings with the reverse public anger from the pending raised taxes and the worsening of the financial situation.
At that point, there will be no countdowns to inauguration day, no shaken fists outside the White House lawn and there will also be no messiahs or chosen one's who we can look up to fix everything.
While the path our nation is taking is clear, what we need to do as the people of this nation is make the hard decisions within ourselves to help mold the system for the future.
These decisions don't include radical ideas of voting against personal beliefs held close to your heart but rather pulling in the strength to simply listen to the other side and understand that we live in a vast and diverse country with many cultures, thoughts and ideals.
The politicians we elect to represent us have chosen to be partisan and polarizing, not by choices of their own but rather from the environment we have created as a society on capital hill and in our local institutions.
The moderate mavericks are being forced to wear wolf's clothing, give up on the ideals that made us believe in something better from our government and are being excluded from molding the direction of the two major parties.
As long as we allow our party leaders to dictate the conversation by feeding into the system that appeals to our lesser instincts the worse off we will be and this will always have a strong reflection in our national government.
This is not a call for the end of the two party system but rather a plea to the Democrats and Republicans alike to drop their weapons if even for a brief moment and have a conversation about the things that unite us instead of the things that divide us.
No bill to save our schools, to approach green lifestyles, to enhance medical research, to rectify the problems with the food we eat or to help us live better lives can ever be passed unless we begin to look at both sides and elect leaders from the Left and Right middle instead of rallying behind polarizing figures from the radical wings of the party.
It's easy for me to expound on the flaws of our leaders or to come on here we after week and speak about the pain we have to come but in this New Year I want to expand the conversation with you, ask the questions that aren't being asked, dig deeper and come to an understanding of how we can make things better and possibly open up some minds along the way….
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