Fighting for Soul

The question is who’s soul? Conservative or liberal? Foreign or domestic? Black or white? Female or male? Adult or child? America or all of mankind?

The yin and yang of social interaction. We have an opinion on everything. We even laugh about a lot of it. Until it gets to a point where the serious cells in our bodies react. And then anger sets in and arguments take off. Because anger upsets emotional balance, words are exchanged that are harsh and personal. Judgmental, too. Hurtful and damaging to relationships.

In such environments not much is accomplished but venting of frustration and personal venom.

And that behavior doesn’t accomplish anything but the building of walls of separation.

That pretty much describes where America is right now. The venom of politics has risen to rule the nation. No government decisions are made that build positives; only negatives that destroy or separate.

We are a divided nation. The rich and not rich. The educated and ignorant. The young and old. The employed and unemployed. The achievers and those barely hanging on. The thinkers and doers versus the emotional wrecks who block progress.

Labels and proponents. Supporters and cheerleaders. Republicans and Democrats. Conservatives and Liberals. Big government versus small government. Or no government.

And that’s about where we are. Right now. Anarchy is the state of having no government. If large numbers of people do not trust or believe in their government, effectively there is no government.

Welcome to 2018. Shifting sands of nonsense logic. Policies pulled from thin air on whims of irritation and pique. Meaningless as to real purpose and function. Just hurtful and damaging to an enemy imagined.

Anarchy. That’s what this is. Personal and hurtful.

If this is what you hoped for, congratulations. You have won! Now what are you going to do with it?

That’s a serious question. What are you going to do with it? How are you going to manage what now exists? Is it something you want to create with, or leave on the scrap heap of history?

What was your purpose? What was your design. Did you think to this point? And beyond? Or was your intent to tear down for the hell of it?

You said you treasure military veterans. You say veterans earned our respect, admiration and loyalty. You have said veterans should be well taken care of. Yet hundreds of thousands of them are homeless, unemployed, career-less, and suffering from many things. Where is your caring now? Why haven’t you funded the Veteran’s Administration and its services to care for your veterans? And ours, too!

You claim to care for children and their health and education. Yet you tear down their healthcare coverages, their educational systems. You don’t help single mothers who struggle to keep their households together to embrace the well-being of their families. The prisons are filled with men, mostly black men.

You say you love the woods and nature and open vistas. Yet you allow clear cutting lumber operations, polluting coal fields and operations, oil drilling in wilderness areas, oil drilling offshore to pollute our shores, and fracking to despoil our water aquifers. Despoliation of nature is not a sign of caring; it is a sign of greed and dollar value of what the land will yield you.

If you don’t want us to believe government or educated people, who do you want us to believe? You? What are your credentials? Why should we believe you?

Destruction of trust destroys loyalty. The compass of truth ceases to exist.

Is this what you wanted?

What exactly was your purpose? Why? And what now do you do?

Where is your soul? I know where mine resides.

February 5, 2018