People are senselessly being murdered in the United States. Children are being shot in schools and the tragedies have many Americans asking two basic questions: 1) Are we going to do something significant to curtail the gun violence? 2) Is there truly an issue to be discussed?
These questions are offsetting and have resulted in a public feud where politicians lick their chops, running to their pulpits to pluck the loyalties of those who respond to the sound of lazy mantras like Pavlov's dogs. Lost in the chanting and politicking is the logic and desire among those who simply want to be human instead of a Democrat or Republican. Alongside that humanity is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which we've been told is supposed to be a staple of the American experience.
The absurd degree to which partisan power supersedes honest discourse in every significant social issue has become commonplace to the point it no longer seems absurd. Instead, we have been programmed to pick a side and sit on our couches, cheering our team to victory as if issues like abortion and gun control hold places of moral magnitude next to who will win the NBA Eastern Conference. It has been a sobering experience to witness the democracy I was introduced to as a youth, revealed as little more than the waxing and waning of opposing Neanderthal mindsets which are concerned, first and foremost, with their own survival. It is a place where truth is sacrificed for the sake of pride and self.
While this has become the acceptable method of government in America, I still find myself shaking my head in disbelief at the incessant inability for many of us to listen to honest words
