However for the time being we are a government subordinate
to petty differences not lead by two parties, but by two sides. Each side
determined to win.
The DHS funding situation is just the big slap in the face
to the American people that our two parties cannot govern anymore because they
cannot put the people and needs of this country first, only their side. They
have fully judged the other side as the problem, yet won’t admit they are the
other half of the problem.
We, as humans, will judge everything in our daily lives. I won’t
go down the there is only one who should judge discussion instead focusing on
why being judgmental as humans is a recipe for failure.
Both sides are one hundred percent sure they are right and in
doing so throw insults and judgmental comments at the other side only inflaming
the inability to work together to solve problems. Any rational group of people even
with differing priorities could find solutions to funding DHS. We are not
rational anymore.
If anyone lives in a closed mind, they will live in a prison
of their own making. You cannot see solutions, you only see walls. And that is
where we are right now. Our two parties
along with their media and echo chamber “bases” have built a wall between them.
The irony is most democrats and republicans in the real world are not part of
the wall. Most Americans just want to
get about with their lives and want our government to fix problems. They are
stuck in the rut of having chosen a side they blindly follow the “leaders”
because they do not perceive an alternative. They can sit in their living rooms
or at the dining table and talk about how the other side fails parroting
talking points that give them no answer. Yet in reality they know a failure is
happening with our government.
These Americans not part of the wall are left to the side suffering
the inability of the two parties to represent them. Americans want answers yet
they have been conditioned to answers that do not exist, only something that
has devolved into ugly rhetoric, insults, finger pointing and are left
wondering what can be done better. Yet no better comes along because they are
stuck trying to budget shrinking real spending paychecks and higher costs.
Many in our country probably could do a better job with what
is in front of us if given the chance, but the cards are stacked against them.
The system favors the duopoly because the duopoly spent decades making the
system. The system is destroying this country, not the people, not even the
individuals that are in the system. They are just caught not being able to give
an inch because their echo chamber would castrate them politically. And cannot
have that because even though they might have an answer to help the people,
their power is more important.
Yes it is hard not to judge people as a person, so I try,
but I fail, so I hope my arguments fall into your ear as a judgment of the
system not any one individual because all the individuals to varying degrees
are part of this system that is failing us.
DHS funding is much easier to resolve if both parties work
to listen to the people than listen to themselves. That won’t happen at the
moment and so we get headlines that tell us how frustrated Washington DC is
because they cannot fix the problem. The DHS funding problem is just an example
of how far out of touch DC is with America.
It goes back to the old Pogo cartoon, the problem is us. Too
bad there are no metaphorical mirrors in DC right now.
I have said this before and I will say it again because I
still believe in who we are, what are our stated values, what we can do as a
people and what we have accomplished in our slow walk through history to get
better as a people. Somehow we just need to punch through the hate, the closed
mindedness, the my side is the right side and get back to who we are as a
people, not a side.
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