An overdue update
11 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
I didn’t realize my last post was on the Primary Election victory. Interesting because this post is to update that we lost the General Election.
Much has happened in the world in the 3 and a half months since the Aug. 2 Primary to now, most of all an exhausting general election where distortions of truth took center stage. But the campaign is over and time to move forward.
Not to get on a pedestal, however, as this is my blog I have the liberty to write what I want so I will go ahead and hop on up on one.
I believe in the greatness of America. I believe that our citizens can do whatever we put our minds to, and are given the freedom to do. We are a nation of innovators, of entrepreneurs, a people and a citizenry that have opportunities for success because of the freedoms and liberties that people have died to protect.
On that note a very grateful thanks to all our veterans out there.
I also believe that moderation and compromise has allowed this nation to succeed. That deliberation in state assemblies and United States Congress has prevented more catastrophes then it has promoted. Have these bodies made poor choices? Yes. Have the people encouraged it? Yes. But the system is tempered, it is deliberative and the system assists in moving forward as One Nation, Indivisible.
That being said, I am concerned about the polarization that we have seen in the last decade. I am concerned about the fever pitch that has risen and the rhetoric that has been put forth. Instead of working together for all of America, the finger pointing continues to the “Red States” and “Blue States” my hope is that our leaders do not forget that in the end they are working for what is best for the United States.
We are at a turning point in our history — and it will be very interesting to see what is accomplished, or what is deadlocked in the coming months.
Until then try and tune out the punditry as they speculate for the 2012 Election, before the new Congress is even in session.
