Are we guilty?... [View all]
Yesterday, in a conversation with my very conservative son, he and his wife made comments about why they hate my involvement with politics. I had a sudden shot of clarity and realized that they had conflated government, politics, and partisanship.
Are we all guilty of that? Have we let the media and the plutocrats back us into that corner so that when we talk about issues and policies it is only for the purpose of politics as a partisan endeavor rather than a matter of how to have a government? I am afraid so and this is the paradigm that must be changed to change everything else.
Government is the structure. Politics is the operating system. Partisanship is way we look at the other two and should be the least important. For too long partisanship has been the whole deal and it is time to make it the least. We will be liberal here and there will be conservatives but we have spent too long tearing down the structure and fouling up the operating system. I think I know where it started but now it is time to forget the genesis and who to blame and fix it.
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