Tonight, as I observed the State of the Union address while working on homework, a few things that I had been noticing earlier were clearly observant. Many people think our government has problems and I would tend to agree most of the time. The problem is we want to blame one side or the other, but at the end of the day, it's the fault of both sides.
We have a dangerous setup right now. The government we have is no longer about what's right and wrong but only right and left. We have an institution that's not about helping the American people but it's about winning.
Ben Carson recently said that lawyers "are taught to win by hook or by crook." Look at our current political climate and you will see, they are mostly lawyers.
But the other problem is that emphasis on winning with two distinct sides has other repercussions. The left/right paradigm has tied together completely unrelated issues that you are forced to support if you feel strongly about issues. If you believe in equal opportunity for gay marriage rights, you obviously feel that gun control is the best way and must be pro-choice. If not you are an outsider in a political climate that shuns those who aren't in one of the two camps. In the same way, people who are pro-life are assumed to be for the death penalty (interesting dichotomy here).
It's a dangerous trend. A few major issues overshadow the majority of issues and we keep electing the same people who reinforce this idea. The issues are no longer based on moral consciousness or any relation whatsoever. They aren't based on what the people of America really want. They are based on winning or losing for this team or that.
That's where the problem in America lies. We have made a land of moral grey into red and blue, right and left, and with no regards to the people we are effecting. It's a land of control, power, and regulation but not about freedom, morality, and hope.
Red, White, and Blue <- Three colors for 2 sides
BGann
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