A Haunting Question: Where Did We Go Wrong?

It seems that we live in troubled times.
I look around me, and let me share what I see with you.

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I feel like there are a lot of things that shouldn't even need to be said between human beings.
But lately, I've found so many assholes and hypocrites and shitty people around me, that I feel the need to remind people of a few things.

1. We are all human. Please treat other people like they are people too. The golden rule, be kind, be courteous, always-always-always be respectful.

2. We are in a war right now. Our government just spent billions and billions of dollars on a war we probably didn't even have to get involved with.

3. We are involved in said war, we need to end it in the best way possible. "The best way possible" -- this is kind of an enigmatic statement because war is an ugly, terrible thing -- and there is no such thing as winning when we're fighting in Iraq the way we are right now.
We can, however, evaluate the costs and the downsides to this war in other ways that are more logical: monetarily, in terms of military loss, in terms of deaths -- the loss of life that is beyond tragic to the families and backbone and spirit and livelihood that is the foundation of this great nation.
Our current military personnel has been short-sighted, and in many ways blind when it comes to accepting the fact that no outright victory is in sight in Iraq.

4. We need to end this war, ASAP. I realize an immediate withdrawal would cause backlash and harbor the conditions for a state of even more fierce violence to erupt in the entire Middle East region. This is a volatile, intense conflict. This has been one for a long time, and may very well, despite our best efforts at peace, remain in conflict for some time.

5. We do not need to be involved in EVERY SINGLE foreign affair. We can defend our borders, and refocus our government's attention to the things that really need to be looked at in the world. We need reform in so many ways that one might even go so far as to ask for a unilateral policy reform.

I know change is scary, but people, friends, sometimes it can be a wonderful thing.

6. Right now we need change. We need change in leadership, change in policymaking, change in perspective, change in attitude.

The change we need most, the thing we need more than anything -- is healing.

We need it in so many ways. We have so many problems and sicknesses and illnesses and afflictions and problems and vices and sins and perversions within our society and country - that as Americans, it can be overwhelming.

As Christian's it can be overwhelming. As human beings, it is overwhelming. And we can do things to fix our stereotypes and we can take steps to make our country a better place to live for everyone. And we can do it together, and we can do it now, because we've waited our time, and we've prepared ourselves for how it would come to this, and we're ready to fix the problems right now.

Because again, more than anything, right now we do need healing.

We need to take the time, and put forth the effort to heal.

We need your time, and your effort, and your support as we heal.

And we need to love each other as much as we love ourselves
and imagine what a beautiful world ours can be, if we work toward making it beautiful again.







But then, here is a guy trying to change the sad state of affairs we live in.


I think he's a republican, so that automatically makes me hate him, right?
Wrong.

There are too many people who hide behind their political parties, rather than speaking their viewpoints.

The sad thing is, and you can ask any political analyst this, or the man himself for that matter; Barack Obama would never be elected president of the United States unless he was running as a democrat or a republican.

The green party is throwing away your vote. Voting for Hilary Clinton is throwing away your vote because she's not going to give us health care and she's not going to change things - because guess what - her last fucking name is CLINTON!
We did that shit before, it went ok, but this isn't Bill! Bill was ok, he just fucked around on his wife, and tell me this - wouldn't you?!
Would you want to sleep with that dead fish of a woman with her fake plastic smile and fake plastic life and rich ass attitude?

Let me go ahead and say this just as slowly as possible:
nnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
And now a little faster so you don't misunderstand me:
NO!

Vote for Obama, and let's get health care, and let's start to heal this country.
Because we are in dire need of some healing.

To be continued...