Agree to disagree?
How about if we agree to agree?
Did you know that 72% of American voters want a federal minimum wage of $10.00 or more.
74% of American voters are for ending oil subsidies.
76% of American voters want to cut back on military spending.
79% of American voters want no cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
93% of American voters want labeling of GMOs in their food.
There is vast agreement that the Citizens United decision was bad for America, with 80%
against it and 65% strongly opposing it.
In a very recent poll, 68% of voters said that taxes on the wealthy should be increased.
I was very surprised, considering the stream of anti-Iran invective issuing from Congress,
that 61% of Americans think we should do everything we can to cement the recent deal on
monitoring and controlling development of nuclear technology by Iran, as
opposed going to war, as is being promoted by Israel, Saudi Arabia, and
a rabid core of saber-rattling warmongers here in the U.S.
Glancing at the headlines, the constant stream of partisan yelling, social
turmoil, reports of widespread anger, mistrust, alarm and frustration,
you would never know that on many extremely crucial issues, there is
such a broad range of consensus among us normal, sane folks. You know
the people I'm talking about __ real people who have better things to do
than rail at everything and hate everyone in sight.
I'm not a conspiracist. But it sometimes seems as if a certain minority of
self-absorbed miscreants, who don't agree with the majority of decent
people in our country, decided to mangle and manipulate the
conversation. They seem bent on keeping things stirred up, making sure
we don't have a civil, constructive exchange of ideas, try to work out
our differences, then join together to move things in a good, positive
direction.
It's as if they intentionally mislead and misinform us.
By keeping us divided, they control us . . . making it easy to get their own way.
This is nothing new to other countries who view America as the greatest threat to world peace, as a source of chaos, a force not for unity and order but mayhem and disarray.
What we are beginning to recognize within our borders is what the world has for a long time observed outside of them.
They see an America which wantonly uses its military and economic power to muck things up, keep people scrambling, divided, confused, desperate. They watch in horror and fear as we destroy entire nations, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and then claim we're safer now because those countries are in shambles and no longer organized enough to stand up to us, oppose our policies, our exploitation, our callous bullying.
Is this what we want?
Surely we don't really want to live in a nation that is at war with itself
and everyone else. That's not the America we believe in . . . that we
care about . . . that we're proud of . . . the America we hope to hand down to future generations.
We can agree on that, can't we?
I'd say that's a good start.
Let's agree to agree.
Go from there.
[ This originated at the author's personal web site . . . http://jdrachel.com ]
