(#6299) Our political future has to get greater than our sports teams.

      I know how tough it is to put anything above our sports that we follow with passion. I get it that not even our political future is as capturing as our hope for our teams to win win win! Yet in the big picture these teams we so fervently identify with are not really ours. They belong to very wealthy people who make money off of our devotion. It is difficult to see that way because of our investment of time and energy into a lifelong sense of a pseudo community ownership. Truth is I haven't been able to afford tickets to see any of my favorite teams for quite a long time.
     If it is difficult for me to prioritize expenditures on entertainment how much more difficult is it for those who have fewer resources than me? Which I presume is not a small circle of folks. Anyway, not so much about the cost of supporting my favorite teams is the cognitive dissonance of putting them above my and others' general welfare. Our politics is the most important element in our future. Politics decides which people live easy and which ones live hard. At the moment the ones living easy are the wealthy and the ones living hard are the working middle poor class. That dynamic is turned on its head as it should be the wealthy living less easy and the working middle poor class living a lot easier.
     We the people have allowed this to happen by not engaging in the priorities of the day. We listen to our favored speakers whether they speak truth to power or not. We tell ourselves that we are just one person unable to make a difference so we turn away from the struggle. We go about our day still putting the hopes we have for our sports teams on a higher priority than our actual day to day living. We don't consider as much the value we have to leave for our children so that when they are faced with horrible conditions in their lives they won't know how to fight back for a better world. They will only see that sport outcomes are more important than an honorable fairness in life.