There are many truly sad things about where we are as a society. For example, it is truly sad we are unable to work together and fix what is broken. No, instead we spend our time and energy on blame, power, and other meaningless pursuits or unhelpful activities.
Our major cities have problems. Poverty, crime, illiteracy, lack of respect for the law. Yet who is actually focusing on repairing these items? No one, it seems. Chicago is the murder capital, with the deaths of many citizens a regular occurrence; yet more coverage goes to someone killing five people with an “assault” weapon (of which an AR-15 is not), than on actual solutions to the problem.
Failed garbage cleanup, failed schools, failed faith, failed belief, and failed leadership. This is not a foundation for the future success of our people or our country, or for the world as a whole.
I would like to hear a candidate for office, for once in his or her life, stop spending so much time blaming the opposite political party or ideology, or dividing us by race, sex, age, etc., and spend more time talking about actual solutions to real problems for Americans.
Contrary to the Democrats socialist dream of everyone sharing and being equal, there is only one winner for President, just like there is only one person in the classroom with the best grades, one winner in a beauty competition, one gold medal in a sport. People are not equal, but they should have equal opportunity. People generally compete in life to get ahead, from getting a job, a promotion, or elected. Embrace competition, just don’t use it against people.
The Americans who live in some of our worst cities deserve our support to fix their lives and help them embrace personal competition. But don’t just bring up solutions that give them more money or more benefits, that makes them more dependent. No, give them better education, better healthcare, better opportunities, and safer streets, so they can take better control of their own lives and improve from within, feeling a sense of growing pride in themselves. Allow them to have all the tools they need to have the equal opportunity we all deserve.
But please, the multi-trillion-dollar giveaways are not solutions. You cannot take all that everyone who has worked hard at accomplishing away from them and give it to those who don’t have as much and think for a moment that you have either solved an issue or created a perfect world. That is stupidity and arrogance, not intelligence and compassion.
Glenn Jackson, Author 