by Kstone

Created on: October 31, 2007

Let me tell you about my America.

My America is void of smear merchants. My opinion is my own. Not tainted by the hypocrisy that dominates every medium that greets us at every turn. Others pick sides then act like crazed fans supporting anything their side does. Whether right or wrong they push their agenda for they cannot comprehend unity and working for a better America. Every issue only has two sides with no resolve possible. Where a bridge should be most Americans are left drowning between these two Islands. The voice of reason is sacrificed for fear of giving the other side a victory.

Campaigns have run amuck in order to feed the madness we have created. Every issue twisted so comprehension is impossible. The first order of business is to explain how the other side is wrong. They play on the fears of their subjects. Instead of demonstrating what the masses agree upon they site rare instances where the issue, the bill or anything else the other side voted for ran afoul. How did a candidate's haircut become a rallying cry for the opposition? In my America, I worry more about a Congress that wouldn't get anything done being replaced by a Congress that promised action yet sits idly by.

The fear of being labeled makes most hesitant to speak out. In my America I believe in helping the poor, tax cuts, fixing health care, educating every child, supporting our troops, The Patriot Act, a cleaner environment, fixing Social Security, less dependency on oil and the Second Amendment. What's my label? Liberal, Conservative? It does not matter, what matters is the individual issues not the grouping.

Talk shows feed hysteria. Where are the compromisers? Where is the mediator to this chaos? The more people blog , the more people tune-in to smear merchants is the more we deflect unity. We create a line drawn in the sand. Unfortunately it takes a giant wave to crash our shores to erode the line that divides us. For a short time there is no division but as the wave retreats into a vast deep ocean the line reappears. So here we sit... divided once again.

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