The West Wing television series was 156 episodes back in the early
2000’s. It ran for seven seasons. We are viewing reruns of the entire series.
We finished episode 127 yesterday. (Note: on Sunday evening, March 10th
we completed viewing the entire series.)
This project of remembering yesterday has been more than a
little interesting. I invite you to do what we did. In the doing you will learn
that political parties remain stubborn – even stupid – and very tricky. People
with great ideas are ignored today as much as they were yesteryear. Good ideas
are plentiful; they just don’t enjoy the right timing to be adopted. We have
solved today’s problems yesterday many times over. Yet the same problems
prevail. It all boils down
to…who…gets…credit…for the good things. Inversely, finger pointing rights belong
to both sides because they both get things right…and wrong.
Budget fights loom impenetrable. Economic policies battle
one another. Scandal and shame visits both parties equally. Foreign and
domestic issues fight for equal time but rarely are of equal stature.
How hideous of us to allow this fakery to continue. How
disgusting the waste. And the loss of life and career and self esteem – all by-products
of a system of good intentions gone awry because of human nature.
Why can’t we get this right? We have practice with it;
nearly 300 years. Yet the same old arguments are heard day in and day out on
CNN, NBC, Fox News, and so forth. Endless rehash of the same old stuff,
Here’s an example referenced on the internet the other day:
“If you want government based on
a religious book, move to Iran
Let’s see, that book would be the Koran, eh? Here we have
the Bible among others. Yet the Constitution makes clear we will not show
fealty to any such book. The Constitution recognizes religion within our
culture and among our people. It does not identify which religion. It states it
doesn’t care. That’s up to the people, not the government. And the government
shall not make any laws respective of religion. The two realms do not mix. Got
it?
Well evidently there are those who do not get it. The Bible
may hint at a definition of marriage but it doesn’t make it law. And government
in the states define marriage as a union of two people to make a household, to
make a family. One is religion. One is law. The federal government recognizes
neither.
That hasn’t stopped narrow minded people to avow the
opposite. Whether God or Devil, who has the authority to claim pure knowledge
and right about either? Certainly not the Federal government. And not the US
Constitution.
So, the churches, followers and religions claim what they
will. They do not have legal right over any one person.
The US Constitution says it is so. Read it and weep. Or let the Devil have his
say!
So view reruns of West Wing and see how far we’ve gone
to get nowhere. Same-o, same-o. The Devil you say!
March 11, 2013
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