Reply #24: "Government [View All]

[Coyote_Bandit]

of the people, by the people and for the people."

That is not limited to red people or blue people or liberals or progressives or repubs or rich or poor. It includes ***ALL*** the people - even those wealthy and powerful few that you seem to detest.

We have lost our sense of national community. Instead of seeing ourselves as a nation we see ourselves as competing groups - each having an agenda and seeking to prevail over competing interests regardless of the impact on our fellow citizens. And that is part of the fucking problem. We no longer care how our own agenda impacts our fellow citizens - because, by God, we are right and to hell with them. Compromise has become a dirty word. We value our ideology over the ability of our government to serve the needs of all of its citizens.

Any government that works to serve the interests of only some of its citizens is deserving of failure. Competing interests of all groups must be considered with the goal being to advance the common good - not the good of any particular political, religious, socio-economic or other group. Policies ought not be viewed as either black or white (or red and blue). There are many, many shades of grey (purple too).

I presume that view is entirely too encompassing for you to consider it the least little bit progressive. Oh well. Whatever.