Take a deep breath
I submitted this as a letter to the editor in our local paper in response to all the political railing going on in its opinion pieces.
Politics
As we enter a new election season, which surely will be as ugly and mean as any of them, we ought to keep a few things in perspective:
From the very beginning, we have figured our politicians were “evil, corrupt, self-serving, idiotic buffoons”, and that’s just to describe Abraham Lincoln, now considered to be the best of the lot.
We are an opinionated, freedom loving people, from every religion, political philosophy, and nationality on the planet. Yet for the past hundred and fifty years, we have managed to fight our internal wars the way all wars should be fought: with words, not bullets.
For all our faults, we have created the highest standard of living in history. Even the poor have access to comforts and technologies unavailable to the most powerful kings of the past.
This is not a plea for more civility. Not gonna happen.
It’s a plea for us to step back, take a deep breath, and ponder on the miraculousness of what we have going for us here…. and then to vigorously resume the war of words, because I totally agree, this time those guys on the other side really are “evil, corrupt, self-serving, idiotic buffoons”.
