Sayin’ More About Politics and Surroundings

We all know that as far as games go, playing politics is the ultimate tour de force.

In politics there are many versions of the truth but when we give the people a ‘voice’ we embrace a system of fairness and we don’t vilify our heroes nor do we lionize the villains.

But we’ve gone wrong somewhere because that practice is now the acceptable norm and this craziness we’re witnessing has rendered the American people fearful and confused.

I contend that when we understand what is happening around us we then lose our fear and confusion and become better equipped to move forward in our perceived or stated goals as a country and a people that ‘takes care of its own.’

Right now we, as a nation, are polarized about the wrong things as we navigate our way through this age of entitlement and sacrifice—though both are applied selectively.

The fight among our leaders now is whether those entitled should continue to get more and those with less should just sacrifice because of the position they’re in.

We live in this high tech age of aiding and abetting the various talking heads who hide behind the concept of ‘unbiased journalism’; we lionize those not working through no fault of their own as we pretend we want to ‘create jobs for the populace’; we poo poo the few who are striving to ‘improve our education system’; and we dub ‘cool’ those who think it’s ‘fun’ to expose the system and how it works just because they can—ensuing damage be damned.
Then there’s the actual we the people who are sort of lost out in the wilderness.

We’re victims of those who revel in playing gotcha politics and too many of us resort to taking up arms against elected leaders who have been vilified by those who want to be elected to lead or those we have elected because they address our fears.

The lack of civility in this system put in place by our founding fathers tears at the seams of the fabric of who we are and who we have become. Many of us now fantasize about returning to a time of…what?


We look at the starving faces of Third World nations plastered across our television screens and we urge our government to dig deep to send help thereby displaying our compassion as a people.
On the other hand we don’t like our government helping the less fortunate right here at home and we get angry that they are in need in the first place…I got mine let them get theirs is the rallying cry.

And then a catastrophic illness befalls our family and all that we had saved gets depleted and we then get angry at the government for not helping us—never mind we vilified the leaders during our fat times about giving away the store to the poor and starving (which are mostly children) when we could have rallied together as a people and insisted that our leaders do the right thing.

Where’s our Conscience? What happened to Common Sense? When will we get back to being Reasonable? Why don’t we like each other anymore?
I’m just sayin’.