Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Do we really want to go back to our roots?


In the past, being larger and richer meant being better fed, brighter, smarter, more entitled.  Our country started out saying that all men are equal (they didn’t say much about women or people who were what they considered subspecies. It wasn't an issue then.)  Now we have had a couple hundred years to mature we are returning to our roots the way children do when they finally realize their parents are not as far off the mark as they once thought.

Some of us have become a pesky power to reckon with, so we are at a pivotal point in the history of civilization.  Comfort says we should return to the way it has always been.  Rich men rule.  Our constitution says that in a country like ours, majority rules, but when something that was never a threat before becomes a power to reckon with the powers that be start playing rough. 

More than ever the time has come when intelligent human beings need to really think before they hand over any power to an administration that believes it knows what is best.  As comfortable as it might be to believe that someone will just take care of us all and hand out justice with a fair hand, it is wrong thinking.   It is dangerous thinking.  

We need to take care of each other and ourselves.  This country is a work in progress.

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