Okay, I was fishing around for a way to say what I am really thinking and I came across this article and I think it says it all! It is from the 2000 election but it still rings true...
"Many Republicans say, in effect, "This is the land of the free. Work hard and you will prosper. Climb out of your ghettos, (either literal or imagined). Break free of all the racial and generational bondages and be your own man (or woman); make your own life! No one is holding you down but yourself, and your perceptions of yourself." And there is some truth to this. But, there is MUCH MORE of the Truth to be told! Tell this to a young man or woman who perhaps had no father, and is SO spiritually broken down and helpless within, in some cases, without proper parental role models, that he or she cannot see any way out of their dilemma. Many face a backdrop of social conditioning, hurts and injustices of all kinds that is hard to understand if you have not walked in their shoes. (Tell a gang-banger or meth producer - from ANY race, for that matter, to quit their highly lucrative lifestyles of crime and go get a job). College? A meaningful career? This is ideal . . perhaps an all-uphill climb for those whose parents recently immigrated, or whose descendants were cruelly wrenched from another land and forced to lead a life of slavery. (We HAVE come a long way, but so much has yet to change). Impossible? No, just ideal. And how can the ideal become Real unless the mean-spirited, do-for-yourself idealism of strictly Libertarian Republicans is brought down to earth, back to reality"
Excerpt from WHY GOD IS NOT A REPUBLICAN . . . NOR A DEMOCRAT
By Todd Fishkind
Can relate to this; for years did not have a word for how i see myself politically. . . Then realized that the word Moderate best captures it for me.. . For me politics is like the pattern of the maple leaf. One can align with the far Right and become so very bloated in the stance that is so full of itself that nothing can be taken in. . . not even the Scared for it has made God in their own image so to speak. . . or. . .One can turn to the far Left and become the insatifable hunger. . . that can never be filled for it does not realized that all of the hunger is really just an attempt to fill the belly with "junk food" that cannot bring sacred fulfillment. . . For me the middle loam of the Maple leaf is not the medium of the extremens but rather the deepest loam of our being which is aligned with that or Whom we hold as most Sacred and walking in congruence. . . that which directs us inwardly rather than the external seductions and manipulations that has become so prominent these days from both parties. . . Another metaphor is the Left and Right spin around us, and through the connection with the Sacred we can walk within the Eye of the Storm and seek the guidance as to which might be able to match those values. . . we can turn and face them. . but not get so close to allow them to suck us in the centrificating force. . .thus losing our own Sacred ground. . .
ReplyDeletelove you dear Kacy, know you have heard me say this a number of ways, but this is how i see all of life these days. . .when we are anchored in the Sacred Heart all will be fine. . .and you and yours will be held in an embrace of peace and love by your Saviour and Lord. . .
I like it a lot! I want that on a shirt!
ReplyDeleteI am a ____ that happens to vote for ____! I'm more of a ____ than a ____, but I'm still not a ____.
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