Something we often forget to consider is that at any given moment, a certain number of people in society will be born with birth defects so severe they will be unable to perform work or care for themselves. Some people will suffer from debilitating illnesses or injury. Some people will suffer from psychological trauma, making it difficult for them to function in society, let alone hold a job while they work through their issues. Other people will lose their jobs as a result of the ebb and flow of social change.
As a society, what do we do with these people? Let them suffer and die? It could very easily be us or members of our family that become disabled or unemployed at some point in life.
We tell ourselves that competition is good, that greed is good, that free markets will save us while, at the same time we believe that life is a matter of survival of the fittest. We need to kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. This is an insane world view! When all we ask is “What’s going to work best for me?”, we set ourselves up to fail because we deny our connectedness. We end up losing our empathy and only think of ourselves. This strategy has created great advancements in the short term but it is unsustainable in the long term and we know it.
It’s time to start asking ourselves, what’s going to work best for ALL of us – in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace. As citizens of a democracy, these are questions we need to filter our decisions through, politicians and business leaders especially.
Government IS bad when it uses public money to benefit the few and oppress the many! To keep government from effectively serving all the people, wealthy and powerful insiders insist on privately funding political campaigns so they can exercise control over politicians and the legislation they write. It doesn’t help that corporations have been given the status of personhood and that lobbyists, business leaders and politicians have easy access to one another. When we are hungry for money, power and privilege it’s easy for us to form relationships with others who seek the same. In the process we forget our promise and responsibility to the public at large. Perks (favors, bribes?) in the form of product and service discounts, jobs for family members and players themselves, contribute to an incestuous relationship that breeds destructive policy and threatens the very existence of a democratic America.
It is important for the public to educate itself and get its head out of the ground. We are all responsible for this sorry state of affairs and it is time for all of us to stand up and set it right if we care for our children and the future they will create. It’s not what we’ve done, it’s what we do from now on that counts!
EVERYONE deserves affordable healthcare and Single Payer is the most cost-effective way to provide it. We need to do the right thing. We need to make government work for ALL of us, not just the few who hypnotize themselves and their friends with the Darwinian mantra that “life is about survival of the fittest, it’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.”
Responsibility (accountability and self-development) is the price of freedom.
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United we stand, divided we fall.
Pete
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