Personal - #501 - #70 – What secret or hidden policy is the American afraid of?

Where is there agreement on anything?

Is there agreement on why we went to Vietnam? Who really won the war? Was the war fought successfully?
Is “No child left behind” successful? Have the schools changed? Has the curricula changed? To what are they supposed to “change”?
Has the economy “changed”? To what has the economy “changed”? Is the “economy” successful?
Was the war in Iraq successful? Is there agreement on why we went to war? Is the war in an agreement of some kind? “Was it” or “is it” worth it?
What constitutes a “threat” to National survival? Is there some kind of agreement on this?

These and many other simple questions need to be “Nationally” agreed upon or we are going to drift into a rudderless third world country. All the moral and financial policies on which this country was built will become useless measures of a Constitution.
We constantly argue and pontificate on the “real meaning” of the Constitution. There isn’t agreement on even this basic. We attack the meaning of the Constitution. We attack the meaning of murder, capital punishment, unusual treatment, privacy, etc.
Unless we have mutually agreed upon definitions, how can we expect to have understanding.

What do we expect? What kind of government do we want? Half the country is swayed by “meaningless rhetoric”… “Change” What kind of change? Exactly what? ….. And half the country wants to stick by some of its “policies”. What are its policies anyhow?

Then there’s our “elected representatives”…..Who do they really represent? How do you measure this so-called “representation”? Is the vote just a “sham” for lazy people. By the time the majority wakes up, we’ll have seen a mushroom cloud and we will have a different America.

Where do we start?.... We start by “defining” what we want. We vote because we hear what we want. If we can’t agree, then we have no right to complain about the outcome. Even the T.V. shows, if we don’t hear a substantive discussion on what we feel is the important issues, we must turn it off. If the pundits persist on “red and blue” the we turn off.
How can a reasonable person believe that all the different writers, journalists, and advisors believe the President wasn’t available to them a year before any trouble came. Did the President take all this competing information and choose the ones he believed in? What do you mean the administration had no plan? True, he may have made the wrong decision…. But “no plan”? Those that didn’t like his final disposition feel antagonistic, but to complain, after the decisions were made, is an act of personal ambition.

Please read this thoroughly. Before you have an opinion, think whether or not this does any good. Is it “constructive”?