When I try to reason how our great country’s political state
has come to represent nothing more than Spiro Agnew’s “Nattering Nabobs of
Negativism” I can only conclude that it is the quest for personal power that is
driving it. One path to power is “divide
and conquer” . When I listen to
politicians, I don’t hear of solutions, I hear blame and anger. A well known debating devise when reason
won’t do, is to hurl insults, create fear and call names. Is this what is really happening? Or has the media found that the only way to
get customers is to hone in on the divisive?
I hear a lot about how the baby boomers are responsible for the mess
we’re in, but hear nothing at all about our accomplishments: You can see blue sky in Pittsburg. The Cuyahoga
River and River Rouge are no longer fire threats and actually produce fish that
people are eating. Bald eagles and
Canadian Geese are abundant. Most poor
people in this country would be considered rich in much of the world. I see no black smoke coming out of
stacks, and we are closer to energy
independence than we have been in a long time.
The key to these gains come from a “Unite and Prosper” philosophy that
seems to have left the country. The 13
colonies united to win the Revolution despite drastic differences in belief and
situation. The greatest growth this
country has ever seen was after WWII when we united with our enemies and helped
Japan and Germany turn into great allies.
The family value that allowed this to happen is called “Tolerance”. Tolerance
allows us to learn other viewpoints and get different perspectives on
situations that we wouldn’t get otherwise and that is how problems are
solved.
We’ve delegated our power to
special interest groups that are bureaucracies and unfortunately bureaucracies
don’t die. When they have achieved their
means they must find or create another cause to keep their jobs. Many of these
don’t hold water when held up to the light and unfortunately, because they were
our cause we fail to recognize the change.
The gay marriage group in Minnesota is still going strong despite their
win. The pro lifers keep going after
Planned Parenthood even though Planned Parenthood has prevented many more
abortions than they have carried out and abortion numbers are even with
estimates of when it was illegal.[1] I still want to know which suicidal Federal
employee is coming to your door to take your gun away?
The divide and conquer group think that in
order for one group to gain, another has to lose. This is not the American way. As President Kennedy stated “a rising tide
raises all boats”. When we look at who
we are going to vote for, I feel we should be looking to those who will unite
us in what we all wish for; security, prosperity, love and happiness. We should reject those nattering nabobs of
negativity that don’t have any solutions other than vote for me. The “loyal opposition” should be working to
make a better country and world and not be solely focused on gaining power by
any means. Most of the vitriol can be reduced
to bureaucracies whose leaders have decided their personal survival is more
important than their mission. We need to
find a way to correct this.
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