A LFR Editorial. Just blowing off steam...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

Very few laws remain the same. Once enacted, they are likely to be studied, modified, amended, then often repealed altogether. This constant tinkering by judges and lawmakers is usually a good thing. Bad laws are weeded out. Weak laws are improved. Good laws are fine tuned. –John Grisham, from “Author’s Note” of his book “The Last Juror”

We, the United States of America, are the Great Experiment. We are created to change. We were designed to evolve to fit what is needed for the times we find ourselves. Yet, so many are scared to be what we are designed to do.

Far too many of our people have a problem with the word “We”. This Nation is stuck in the thought pattern of “What about me?” Due to this, we have not been living up to our potential.

Greed and power is rampant in the upper class. Fear and uncertainty is causing the lower classes to stagnate. That is to say, people of the lower classes are scared to rock the boat in fear of retaliation by the upper class.

And due to this, we are seeing laws that would help people be stalled, fought tooth and claw before it has a chance to be studied in action and tweaked. We have seen Unions slowly broke, what have been known as full time jobs at one time become part time, a minim wage that once was livable turn into the very definition of slave wage, and charities being bombarded with pleas for help with little to no help to offer.

One would think, with so many being affected, that people would be ready and be demanding change. Many say the people are demanding change, but it is only half heated. The apprehension of shaking the upper class is causing the demand to be very lackadaisical.

Mind you, there are those that are fighting, and fighting hard, for change. However, they are outnumbered due to fear and that “What about me?” mind-set that beleaguer our society.

The first thing that we must do is drop the “Me” complex. Nothing will even be able to start getting better till it is out of the way. We live in a world that what happens in, say Miami Florida, impacts Baxter Springs Kansas, and vice versa . Two places that is very different, but connected all the same. This whole Nation is connected to one another. No place is an island apart from the whole.

We must also stop trying to live in our grandparents’ world. I cannot count how many times I have heard people say something like “My grandparents did so and so, we should do the same”. It is not the same world any longer, what worked for them was for a different time. This is now, and it is a far different world.

Once this clog is cleared from the mentality of the Nation, we can really start to fix what is wrong with us as a country. We will be able to move forward with raising the minim wage and single-payer health care, among other things we as a nation need.