- What's interesting about politics these days is the
divisiveness
which prevails. It's all about hate. It's all about anger. Serious anger.
And it seems to be a general theme running throughout the very fabric of
America.
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- In elections past, there was always some anger and some
bad blood passed between and about candidates. But now, appears to be a
solid cultural and emotional flaw in our society; it is indicative of that
which prevails in the rest of our lives, outside of politics.
- We've asked the question, "Why?" many times
on this and other venues, but there has not been no answer. Not even one
forthcoming. The problem with US is too serious to ignore. We've become
a society of very angry, very hateful people. You can see it on the road
in the form of road rage. Follow too close, pass on the right, become
extremely
angry just because someone has the gaul to actually _pass_ you on the road.
"How dare that SOB pass _ME_! Look at my Lexus, low life. It's faster
and much more expensive that that piece of bovine excrement you're
driving!"
It seems as of the driver is saying, "I'm better than you are; you
can't show me up!"
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- And we pass around words such as diversity with abandon.
There is no diversity in humanity. Under the skin, we are all the same.
The cultural, religious and physical differences matter not one iota. Not
a one. But to those of us on top of our form, to those of us who make
decent
money, own nice cars and wonderful homes, well, to those, there is none
better than they.
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- The have not person thinks, "Well, that SOB thinks
he's hot (you know what) but he is NOT. Who the hell does he think he is?
And just because he drives an expensive car!" This writer believes
deep inside, that we, as a country, are falling apart at the seems. We
are not going to make it if we keep this up and there is no indication
that this attitudinal problem will ever go away. Truth be known, we hate,
we are angry and we are very impatient. We exhibit those emotions to
others.
But the ones we really hate, the ones we really are angry with, the ones
we are impatient with, are ourselves.
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- We dislike what and who we are. Driven. By the almighty
mammon. Driven to strive. Hell, those who act in this manner were not even
brought up during the Great Depression. It is not poverty which drives
us. It is not need. It is want. We want. We fight to get. Parents working
out of need, leaving children home alone, want a second car, or a third.
Want more and more. Want their kids to have. But they have not want they
need, only what we perceived they need. As parents, we are a failure. And
this failure is a prime cause for the anger in our society for such as
these were not brought up with love and caring. Of course, this is purely
my opinion.
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- My sister in law once remarked, at the birth of her first
boy, "I will not bring my child up to believe in God, nor will I teach
him religion. Let him decide on his own when the time comes!" Whoa!
And what basis, what benchmark, what education will this child have when
the time comes? None at all. Which is the case today. After 21 years, this,
my godchild, is like unto all the rest, having grown up with little but
the schooling given to him by strangers who largely do not care what a
child's beliefs are, as long as they are the beliefs of the teacher. And
the child has nothing with which to compare the teacher's view with.
Nothing.
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- Unless and until we begin bringing up our own children,
teaching them the values which we had when we were growing up, unless we
tell them about the virtue of faith, of honesty and give them the example
of truth and honesty, we will not be able to do that which will solve the
dilemma which faces us. And that would be to work together for a better
life and a much better government. Like in the late forties and early
fifties
when life was simpler and better. Safer. People communicated with each
other. Neighborhoods were just that. People new each other. And there were
no bars on our windows and doors, no barbed wire fences surrounding our
property, no burglar alarms, when we slept with the doors not only unlocked
but OPEN! Sure, there were lots of problems then but we didn't know about
them. And not knowing made us innocent.
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- With the Internet, we are no longer innocent. This world
is now (as Dylan wrote) ruled by violence. But much more than violence.
It is also ruled by lack of knowledge of good and evil. It is ruled by
children who grow up to believe everything the media has to say about
anything.
It is ruled by what we see and hear as "entertainment!"
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- God help us.
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- Jim Mortellaro
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