The State of Our Union - A House Divided

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The State of Our Union - a HouseDivided

It’s not going well folks. We are a nation divided. Not only that, we want to be divided.

During the President’s speech the blog universe was full of nasty hateful things about Obama and “the opposition”.

We had leaders and commentators from the right and the left call him a liar, arrogant, aloof and more.

Where is Rodney King when you need him?

Can’t we all just get along?

It's time for Olbermann, Beck, Limbaugh, Schlutz, Malkin, Hannity and the rest to shut up.  You are causing more problems than you solve.  You are helping to create the climate that is keeping our country spead out into little armed camps ready to do battle against "the enemy".

It seems today that we are more interested in blocking progress than making it, more interested in tearing the other guy down than building him up and more interested in the salacious, the sordid, the sleazy than in the truth.

We don’t want meaningful discussion about issues so we shout down those who don’t agree with us. We call them names. We distort facts or outright lie about them to fit our particular mindset. We all live by one motto - My Way or the Highway

We all have our little comfort group, made up of people who believe exactly like us. We don’t like diversity within our group - if you don’t believe exactly as I do, I will destroy you. Politics, religion, the subject doesn’t matter. We refuse to consider another opinion, refuse to admit we might be wrong or that someone else has a better idea.

Our leaders - and I call them that knowing they aren’t - spend more time name calling, posturing and working the angles to get more power than they do trying to make things better.

We’ve become an angry, surly nation of whiners and pompous, self absorbed, self centered louts.

Our country is broken. Instead of rolling up or collective sleeves and getting together to fix it, we’d rather point fingers and blame the other guy.

We have serious problems to solve: a falling economy, how to create more and better paying jobs, how to make sure everyone gets healthcare, how to defend our nation against it's real enemies, how to give our children the best education possible, how to encourage innovation and invention.... the lsit goes on.

Are we tackling these problems?  No, we're in a giant pissing match with ourselves.

There’s plenty of blame to go around. Democrats, Republicans, right wing, left wing, middle of the roaders, we are all to blame for the mess we our country has become.

Does Obama have all the answers? No

Do Democrats? Republicans? Christians? Blacks? Whites? Hispanics?

No.

It’s time for us to stop playing around. We need to work together to get America back on track.

Working together means putting aside the “my way or the highway” attitude and work together to achieve what’s best for all of us, not just your little tribe.

Cooperation, communication and compromise will save us.

If we don’t fix this now, America will become a nation made up of little self interest groups. Nothing will get done, nothing will change and we will slide into our own sewage.

Lincoln said it best:

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

The cracks in our foundation are getting bigger. We had better heed his warning before it’s too late.