What's Missing In America?
Wow! Now that's a really BIG question, and your comments are invited, so feel free. That's not the impetus for this post. What is missing, in my humble opinion, is cohesion. My bet is that most of you would not contest that we really need cohesion, but what you would protest is the direction for us to proceed in, right?
So where do we, as Americans agree? Most of us in the middle of the country thought that both of the "left coasts", i.e., California +Washington+Oregon and NY+Connecticut+et al, were totally out of step with the rest of us. Yet on November 4th a strange phenomenon took place. California voted for the most liberal presidential candidate ever, yet they voted RESOUNDINGLY for Proposition 8, against gay marriage.
Which brings me back to my original premise for this post; "What is missing in America?". My first instinct is to say, "GOD", but clearly the vote on Prop 8 confirms that premise, don't you think?
So what's missing? Maybe this is what's missing? If you agree, I hope you will join.
So where do we, as Americans agree? Most of us in the middle of the country thought that both of the "left coasts", i.e., California +Washington+Oregon and NY+Connecticut+et al, were totally out of step with the rest of us. Yet on November 4th a strange phenomenon took place. California voted for the most liberal presidential candidate ever, yet they voted RESOUNDINGLY for Proposition 8, against gay marriage.
Which brings me back to my original premise for this post; "What is missing in America?". My first instinct is to say, "GOD", but clearly the vote on Prop 8 confirms that premise, don't you think?
So what's missing? Maybe this is what's missing? If you agree, I hope you will join.
Momentum is missing.
We have things today that we're not willing to get along without. These things we have, we got because our ancestors possessed certain skills and attributes and did certain things. Now you look at the customs we want to trash, to dispose of, and you see these are the same things our forebearers used to get us all these pretty things we're not willing to go without.
Justifying your existence every day God sees fit to let you roll outta bed breathing. God Himself. Guns. Using guns to acquire meat. Confronting people who do bad things, and neutralizing them so innocent people don't get hurt. Farming.
Every single one of those things is portrayed as something endemic to a population of knuckle-dragging buck-tooth rubes. Our President-Elect even listed two of those things during the campaign as specific items that "bitter people" "cling to." We seem to have this dysfunctional instinct to single out things that have helped us, for some special form of unjustified spite. It's an elegantly tangled-up way of putting the hate on ourselves, I think.
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As a Bible believing, concealed carry owner who is always armed woman who likes to grow things edible, I cannot see anything in your ascertions I would disagree with you. We certainly have become a fast food want-it-now country. What was it Jefferson said about a democracy needing to shed the blood of patriots & despots to remain free...though I pray it won't come to that in our country.
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As a Bible believing, concealed carry owner who is always armed woman who likes to grow things edible, I cannot see anything in your ascertions I would disagree with you. We certainly have become a fast food want-it-now country. What was it Jefferson said about a democracy needing to shed the blood of patriots & despots to remain free...though I pray it won't come to that in our country. xrapid
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