The Sunday Circuit June 7th,2009

I like reading the political blogs. I highly suggest the weak of heart refrain from this. The CNN Political Ticker has a very rabid group. The one thing I notice is most bloggers seem to post out of anger towards a party rather than talking about the issues at hand. This is really starting to concern me. With the advancement of the technology and the web, the outside fringe elements of society have managed to bring their polarization of society into the main stream. This got me wondering. Has society become so disenfranchised with small issues that we will never be the nation that stood as one during World War II? Have the political parties gone too far with allowing the fringe elements to control their philosophies?

I do not see the United States standing united again. During World War II, our citizens lined up to serve this great nation. If they could not fight in the war, they worked in the factories making equipment. Everyone worked together to make our nation superior through hard labor and advanced innovations. We stood up as one nation united under the Stars and Stripes and said we would go down as one if needed.

Now, fast forward to today. In an attempt to micro manage all of the smaller issues, society has forgotten about the big picture. We have forgotten that our country is in a crisis. Rather than working together and rebuilding what is broken, we have decided to focus on taking political sides. We have let our political parties decide the best options rather than working together to come up with solutions that not only fix the big picture but also serve the best economical interest of society. We have forgotten how to work.

Society would prefer take sides on not being paid enough rather than taking competitive wage.
We label anyone who opposes our opinion as a hater or un-American rather than understanding the issues. We choose to demean the corporations and businesses who provide us jobs rather than support their goal of making a profit.

Society has become a bunch of hypocrites. We are hypocrites when we buy a foreign product over a US product because of cost. We are hypocrites when we refuse to acknowledge that the other party might have a better idea that benefits all Americans and our country. We hypocrites when we complain about the job losses even though we do not support the US businesses.

It is time to take a look at the big picture again and strive towards achieving the goals that will get us there. We need to realize that all of the smaller issues will not get solved. We need to learn from history and take notes on the industrial revolution play book. The backbone of our country was once the American worker until they got polarized by the fringe elements of society. Unless we can regain our attitude as a best in class producer of manufacturing jobs, we will remain a society broken into segments focused on small issues.