It is unbelievable that republicans can keep getting away with harming American citizens and all we do is let them and then vote them back into public office. I am officially part of the most mindless republic our nation has ever evolved into. The disappointment of our collective conscience is what keeps me stymied. We see wrong being done and yet we don't seem to care. What is it with us? Are we so self absorbed with ourselves that we just don't care what is going on around us? Are we so gullible to think that harm is right and preferable? I am totally shamed by our current inability to put an end to the pain and suffering we are allowing to happen through republican politics.
I have slowly come to realize that my generation will leave our nation worse off than when we inherited it. We shame the memories of the past generations who gave us the liberty and freedom of democracy through blood and treasure. We are not them now. We are the selfish generation that likes to have our own way at the expense of fairness and justice. We want our advantages and privileges at any cost, even to losing our humanity. We are not a society here in America to be looked up to as an example of the best of what a human being may become. In fact we are lowering our standards to those who are more criminal than hero. When many of us have to look to other nations for inspiration is when the facts of things here are desperate and unforgiving.
I find no joy in this self examination of our society. I find shame is the one thread weaving its way through how we treat all of each other and how we view with disdain the future. Our punishing ambivalence is wreaking havoc on those who we wish to control. We are a democracy still with the liberty to be free and equal. Yet republicans are against that and instead want to take our freedom and equality and serve it to us as a treat for our behavior that complies with their narrow focus. The age of enlightenment is under siege by the barbarians who would take power and use it to bully the goodness right out of us. The worst part is we let them and for that we continue to be worse for it. It is time to change and let the best of who we are come out and that will take making the republican party an extinct entity.
I have slowly come to realize that my generation will leave our nation worse off than when we inherited it. We shame the memories of the past generations who gave us the liberty and freedom of democracy through blood and treasure. We are not them now. We are the selfish generation that likes to have our own way at the expense of fairness and justice. We want our advantages and privileges at any cost, even to losing our humanity. We are not a society here in America to be looked up to as an example of the best of what a human being may become. In fact we are lowering our standards to those who are more criminal than hero. When many of us have to look to other nations for inspiration is when the facts of things here are desperate and unforgiving.
I find no joy in this self examination of our society. I find shame is the one thread weaving its way through how we treat all of each other and how we view with disdain the future. Our punishing ambivalence is wreaking havoc on those who we wish to control. We are a democracy still with the liberty to be free and equal. Yet republicans are against that and instead want to take our freedom and equality and serve it to us as a treat for our behavior that complies with their narrow focus. The age of enlightenment is under siege by the barbarians who would take power and use it to bully the goodness right out of us. The worst part is we let them and for that we continue to be worse for it. It is time to change and let the best of who we are come out and that will take making the republican party an extinct entity.
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