Families and friends are being split today
into a political environment that mimics the contention before the US civil war
and the beliefs between the North and the South.
Then, 150-years ago, brother opposed
brother and state opposed state in the volatile consideration for the right of
slavery.
Today it is not the moral or economic
issue of slavery. It is a political issue of blind contention. Fortunately it
will not develop in a bellicose contention, but it is harmful nonetheless. On
one side is liberal thought and conservative thinking on the other; each
believes their way is the way to and for a sustainable future.
I have friends on both sides of the issue.
There are strong and valid reasons on both sides, but our problem today seems
to be that we have no common ground, no attack free zone in which to meet and
compromise for the greater good. Rhetoric fogs the field of compromise and
negotiation.
Contention builds when political and
verbal salvos are lobbed into the other side’s comfortable camp and dander
rises; each side trenches into ideologues of cemented thinking.
The middle thinkers of America need to
stop the verbal cement from hardening into a position that everyone knows will
not work in the arena of compromise and camaraderie.
I am very tired of political rhetoric. I
am very tired of republicans. I am very tired of democrats. Both of their
political diatribes invalidate the democratic principles of our founding fathers.
Then the founding fathers pledged their lives and their fortunes for the hope
of liberty and freedom and equal opportunity. I don’t see lives and fortunes
pledged anywhere, by anyone today. All I see is a manipulation of the truth for
the aggrandizement of power.
Today we hide behind the fear of the other
side gaining more power. Where are the statesmen? Where are the stateswomen?
Where is reason?
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