It has been a while. Sorry for being away but I have been busy posting responses on the blogs for the other side....that did not sound too good. That is a tone of conversation that I think we all need to get away from...the 'Us v/s Them' when it comes to domestic policy or opinion.
One of the ideals that make this nation so great is that we are able to have a free exchange of ideas without fear of physical harm or isolation. Not to say we may not have anyone listening to us, but we are free to speak...free to be wrong...as long as we are not endangering the life or safety of others.
Do any of us truly realize who lucky we are to live where we live, when we are alive? Look at the state of Mexico and its recent election. We had a similar situation in 2000...but we did not have violent protests....we did not have one political party refusing to acknowledge the government lead the other. And No this is not a republican/democrat thing....most people choose to forget that the reverse situation happened 40 years earlier...you see JFK lost the popular vote to Nixon in 1960, but yet won the electoral vote. Kennedy was then president for the next several years.
So, I do not want to hear about one party stole the election from another. We have a system that has worked for 230 years, managing to keep us the best place to live on earth.
I know it is kind of mushy. I think we all need to remember what makes us a nation this time of year.
I am going to start an effort to move labor day to the 11th of September and call it remembrance day.....just as we used to have one remembering those who fell on both sides of the battle at Gettysburg. We should remember those whose lives were taken from them for no other reason than being in America. Those who through their everyday toils of work were representing everyday American. The labor movement has done a lot for this country in helping us remember it is the citizens...the common worker...those who make us the greatest place on earth...and those people in the towers who lost their lives were nothing but that...and all of that..the common working man....The American common worker who is anything but common in history. For it is this person who has the power through thought and decision to VOTE and change the course of history, to SPEAK OUT and change the country around them today.
That one thought that seems to be getting lost on the American public today. Those ~3000 people who died 5 years ago died for no other reason than they were FREE. They represented all of the people of the United States to the terrorists.
One of the ideals that make this nation so great is that we are able to have a free exchange of ideas without fear of physical harm or isolation. Not to say we may not have anyone listening to us, but we are free to speak...free to be wrong...as long as we are not endangering the life or safety of others.
Do any of us truly realize who lucky we are to live where we live, when we are alive? Look at the state of Mexico and its recent election. We had a similar situation in 2000...but we did not have violent protests....we did not have one political party refusing to acknowledge the government lead the other. And No this is not a republican/democrat thing....most people choose to forget that the reverse situation happened 40 years earlier...you see JFK lost the popular vote to Nixon in 1960, but yet won the electoral vote. Kennedy was then president for the next several years.
So, I do not want to hear about one party stole the election from another. We have a system that has worked for 230 years, managing to keep us the best place to live on earth.
I know it is kind of mushy. I think we all need to remember what makes us a nation this time of year.
I am going to start an effort to move labor day to the 11th of September and call it remembrance day.....just as we used to have one remembering those who fell on both sides of the battle at Gettysburg. We should remember those whose lives were taken from them for no other reason than being in America. Those who through their everyday toils of work were representing everyday American. The labor movement has done a lot for this country in helping us remember it is the citizens...the common worker...those who make us the greatest place on earth...and those people in the towers who lost their lives were nothing but that...and all of that..the common working man....The American common worker who is anything but common in history. For it is this person who has the power through thought and decision to VOTE and change the course of history, to SPEAK OUT and change the country around them today.
That one thought that seems to be getting lost on the American public today. Those ~3000 people who died 5 years ago died for no other reason than they were FREE. They represented all of the people of the United States to the terrorists.
posted by Monster Cat | 6:34 AM
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