According to the preamble of our Constitution one of the important purposes of our government is to “insure domestic tranquility.”
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t felt tranquil since the 1990s when President Clinton was in office and the squabble between Representative Gingrich and President Clinton shutdown the government. The two sides of the aisle haven’t been able to work together for nearly twenty years and my tranquility has been slowly becoming a thing of the past.
The political parties and special interests are at the heart of the problem with all the divisive rhetoric and ideological sound bites that captivate our lives. Their working for themselves and don’t seem to care how their actions disrupt the lives of average Americans. It started with bickering and slowly escalated into squabbling, then arguing and finger pointing for political gain. I wonder if we are going to return to the days of dueling at high noon.
If we just consider the experiences of the last three years, wouldn’t we be better off if the House of Representatives and the Senate had been willing to compromise? Let both sides lose a little bit of their idealistic stance to achieve a better America instead of neither side losing anything and America’s problems just getting worse. Our credit rating could still be the world standard and we could be paying down our national debt, but their more interested in their ideology than they are in America.
We know who the instigators are. We elected them so we can unelect them and that is exactly what we should do if we would like to reclaim our “domestic tranquility.”
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