Finding Democracy

Published on: 2011-08-17 23:57:41

obamaI don't know of any President in which I loved everything they did, but when I find someone who disagrees with everything a President represents, I can see clearly they don't understand Democracy in which we vote together and live together. When someone disagrees with everything, it truly is more representative of what would be seen in a dictatorship or communist regime. This is a dangerous game.When people are taught to speak in a rhetoric that incites partisanship, and in a way that doesn't ask the important questions that lead us to better understand the issues together (even if we disagree), those same people have become pawns of the very system they believe they are protecting. I fear many of both parties have fallen prey to this. I say this with empathy, knowing that they probably don't even realize that I am frustrated too, and that we collectively have more in common than they realize now. I do hope people will at least try to learn more, as their service to this country will be more worthwhile.I've always had a desire to ask the right questions, and desire to find out what I have in common with others.

It is in that spirit that I hope others will also help to bring people together again. We are going through some difficult times in these United States. I have no desire to prove people wrong, or show how one party's ideas are better than the other. Instead, I do hope that people will begin to look for the questions that will help them work together with their fellow Americans. Then we will start to again realize what Democracy is all about.

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