This is beautiful. But at the same time is symbolic of everything that is wrong with American politics today.
While one voice is angry and yelling, and others are singing and, dare I say it – boastful – neither really cares to listen to the concerns of the other. Neither really believes the other really has anything of value to say.
There really is no healthy dialogue. There is only bickering phrases over resources (“yes we can” – “no you can’t”), like children squabbling over a toy (“It’s mine” – “no, it’s mine”). There is no thought of sharing. No concept of compromise. There is no hope for consensus.
A parent is often deceived by a child who is unwilling to share a toy and has learned that the way to garner favor, to get what he wants, is to simply to appear nicer, more innocent, than his sibling.
We, the public, are deceived into thinking we are responsible citizens to grant power to whose who appear to be holding up American ideals, when really we are being manipulated by both side. America may have been conceived in hope, but it was birthed through the difficult trial of consensus. Health Care Reform has passed. But surely it’s unhealthy delivery is evidence of the poor state of its mother.
There are times, as parents, when the best thing we can do for our children, for their hearts, is to take the toy away. Simply remove the source of the disagreement. Or, the children, in their struggle over the toy, mutually destroy it. Either way, the thing standing between the two children, preventing them from seeing each other as real persons, is eliminated. Let us weep for our country, and pray we turn from our current ways, lest we find ourselves in a day without our liberty.
PHOTO: My Great Grandfather, William ‘B’ McClain, circa 1930, listening to the radio.
Bickering Phrases
This is beautiful. But at the same time is symbolic of everything that is wrong with American politics today.
While one voice is angry and yelling, and others are singing and, dare I say it – boastful – neither really cares to listen to the concerns of the other. Neither really believes the other really has anything of value to say.
There really is no healthy dialogue. There is only bickering phrases over resources (“yes we can” – “no you can’t”), like children squabbling over a toy (“It’s mine” – “no, it’s mine”). There is no thought of sharing. No concept of compromise. There is no hope for consensus.
A parent is often deceived by a child who is unwilling to share a toy and has learned that the way to garner favor, to get what he wants, is to simply to appear nicer, more innocent, than his sibling.
We, the public, are deceived into thinking we are responsible citizens to grant power to whose who appear to be holding up American ideals, when really we are being manipulated by both side. America may have been conceived in hope, but it was birthed through the difficult trial of consensus. Health Care Reform has passed. But surely it’s unhealthy delivery is evidence of the poor state of its mother.
There are times, as parents, when the best thing we can do for our children, for their hearts, is to take the toy away. Simply remove the source of the disagreement. Or, the children, in their struggle over the toy, mutually destroy it. Either way, the thing standing between the two children, preventing them from seeing each other as real persons, is eliminated. Let us weep for our country, and pray we turn from our current ways, lest we find ourselves in a day without our liberty.
PHOTO: My Great Grandfather, William ‘B’ McClain, circa 1930, listening to the radio.