Quick point to get caught up a little. While you sit across the "isle" of your Democrat/Republican nemesis, remember 1 thing. Whether you are conservative or liberal, you are all still AMERICANS! That is something each party is trying so desperately to make us all forget. While we are divided on many issues, we are all closer than you may think. However, the joke that is Washington, DC, does not want us to realize how close the two sides are. Forget the hate and the fury that has driven a large gap between the conservatives and liberals on many, many issues over the past 10 years. Everyone has core values or principles that the Repubs and Dems want us to forget. If they can have both sides completely disagree with each other, it makes what they are trying to do that much easier. By dividing, there is always someone else to blame. By blaming either side for a vote, decision, bill, etc. the politicians take the focus on the absolute PISS POOR job they have been doing and place it on the other guy(party). Forget W's approval rating. How about congress' whopping 14% confidence rating in the job they are doing in DC!! That means that 86% of the country feels that they are SHIT and it is the truth. So this, the week of our INDEPENDENCE, remember dont be Republican or Democrat, be AMERICANS!! And more than anything else, vote for fellow Americans and not a party. For the Parties are our true downfall.
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Well, allow to to extrapolate some more for ya. What these people are doing is something that has been happening all around our country for the last couple decades. We, as a country have begun ignoring our similarities and started celebrating our differences.
As strange as this may sound, this is a HUGE problem and might just lead to our eventual downfall. Think about this...
We founded our country on the principle that we believed differently than our "Motherland" of England. We, in the colonies of the soon-to-be United States, were the same. We valued the same freedoms, the same ideals and the same ways of thinking. England viewed things differently and we revolted against them based almost solely on that fact. England viewed things from the point of being English, while we were Americans and viewed things as Americans do.
Later, when immigrants began pouring in from other countries, our shores were flooded by people who WANTED to be Americans. They held the same beliefs we had, valued the same freedom, the same ideals. They were hapy to learn our language and tried very hard to actually BECOME Americans. They celebrated our similarities and became one of US.
On the flip-side, during the Civil War, we were celebrating our differences. We were dichotomized on the principles of slavery, socio-economic hardships and how different our culture was from the North to the South. War followed.
Now, we are no longer even Americans. We are African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanic- Americans. We are caucasian and black, Native Americans and Latinos. We celebrate our cultural and ethnic differences while ignoring that we are ALL ignoring our similarities. We are Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives. We celebrate the fact that we don't always see eye-to-eye instead of remembering that under all that hostility, we are all trying to make ourselves and our country better.
In the nutshell- because I could go on ALL day- I think we have lost the idea that we revolted from England based on the fact that we wanted to believe differently. We founded an entire country on the ideal that people are ALLOWED and even EXPECTED to be different...
However, we are also expected to put aside those differences for the greater good. If we cannot, we have become the same close-minded sort of country that England was back in the 1400s. We need to progress instead of regress.
AND, if "pro" is the opposite of "con"...what, pray tell, is the opposite of "progress" :-)
Seriously, work together, forgetting our differences even if just for a moment, and do something RIGHT for a change.
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