Settling for Less Than We Deserve
May 20th 2012 11:34
As children we were told that we could be anything we want to be.
With dreams of achieving success no matter our race, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental handicap, national origin or socio economic background; each and every member of a free society is instilled with the belief that we should never settle for anything less than what we deserve.
It is this basic principle that compelled the forefathers of the United States of America to rebel against oppressive Monarchy rule; but members of modern society are willing to settle when it comes to having a voice in the actions of their government.
Instead of standing up against the things that we know are wrong; the people of the nation that serves as a model of freedom and democracy for the rest of the world are choosing to frame arguments in groups instead of as a united nation.
The most basic rights each and every human being is entitled to upon birth have become polarizing political issues that will never receive the attention they deserve because we are too busy fighting over this when we should be concerned about that.
The this, that is about the facade of the basic issues that come with protecting our rights to marriage no matter whom we choose to love, free speech, property rights, gun rights, rights to be the caretakers of our personal health, the right to worship or not worship whatever religion we choose and other personal freedoms; and the that, that is about the all of these things that continue to be fought for the same basic issue of freedom for all citizens from different viewpoints.
When a group of men came together from different walks of life to draft what would become the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights it was not their intention to grant freedom on certain issues and withhold freedom on others.
It was their intention to make freedom simple by not elevating one right over another.
The rights each and every American citizen has to own a gun, speak freely against their government and have their property protected from seizure by federal forces is equal to the rights each and every American citizen has to worship whatever religion they see fit to worship, form a legal partnership with whomever they choose and our fundamental right to protect our bodies from government intervention.
Each and every hot button issue brought to the center stage of discussion to ignite our passions for or against one of the big two political parties always comes back to the basic issue of freedom.
The freedom that each and every one of us feels slipping away with every legislation that is passed to elevate corporate profits while deflating the personal freedoms of American citizens.
If the American people truly want freedom we have to begin fighting for it as individuals beginning with how we understand the process.
As long as we continue to pour our passions into a system that continues to prove itself as broken we are doing nothing more than running circles around the machine.
Circles that bring us back to the need for a new approach to the problems facing modern America and a desperate call for our ability to put common sense over the allure of being blinded by smoke and mirrors.
With dreams of achieving success no matter our race, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental handicap, national origin or socio economic background; each and every member of a free society is instilled with the belief that we should never settle for anything less than what we deserve.
It is this basic principle that compelled the forefathers of the United States of America to rebel against oppressive Monarchy rule; but members of modern society are willing to settle when it comes to having a voice in the actions of their government.
Instead of standing up against the things that we know are wrong; the people of the nation that serves as a model of freedom and democracy for the rest of the world are choosing to frame arguments in groups instead of as a united nation.
The most basic rights each and every human being is entitled to upon birth have become polarizing political issues that will never receive the attention they deserve because we are too busy fighting over this when we should be concerned about that.
The this, that is about the facade of the basic issues that come with protecting our rights to marriage no matter whom we choose to love, free speech, property rights, gun rights, rights to be the caretakers of our personal health, the right to worship or not worship whatever religion we choose and other personal freedoms; and the that, that is about the all of these things that continue to be fought for the same basic issue of freedom for all citizens from different viewpoints.
When a group of men came together from different walks of life to draft what would become the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights it was not their intention to grant freedom on certain issues and withhold freedom on others.
It was their intention to make freedom simple by not elevating one right over another.
The rights each and every American citizen has to own a gun, speak freely against their government and have their property protected from seizure by federal forces is equal to the rights each and every American citizen has to worship whatever religion they see fit to worship, form a legal partnership with whomever they choose and our fundamental right to protect our bodies from government intervention.
Each and every hot button issue brought to the center stage of discussion to ignite our passions for or against one of the big two political parties always comes back to the basic issue of freedom.
The freedom that each and every one of us feels slipping away with every legislation that is passed to elevate corporate profits while deflating the personal freedoms of American citizens.
If the American people truly want freedom we have to begin fighting for it as individuals beginning with how we understand the process.
As long as we continue to pour our passions into a system that continues to prove itself as broken we are doing nothing more than running circles around the machine.
Circles that bring us back to the need for a new approach to the problems facing modern America and a desperate call for our ability to put common sense over the allure of being blinded by smoke and mirrors.
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Oldies but Goodies From Campaign 08
Voter apathy, lack of choices and settling for a broken system has lead to a deterioration of the most basic freedoms.
No one is entitled to a house with a white picket fence but each and every American citizen was handed down a set of inalienable rights by the framers of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
It is up to the people to serve as caretakers of these rights. When we fail to do so there is no one to blame except for ourselves.