I'm Tired....
Mom loves to send me political emails. You’d think she’d learn that I always see political emails as an opportunity to engage in a dialog, and those conversations rarely end with either one of us happy except on those rare occasions when we agree that every person criticized was a bigger idiot than the person who wrote the original email she had forwarded to me.
The latest email was allegedly written by someone age 63 who has a dozen or so “I’m tired” points that recount the abuses and injustices of a Liberal political climate. Each point on the list is just a swing on the pendulum away from excesses of which our country has previously engaged. (I agree with elements of some of those posts.)
Here is the final entry:
Yes, I'm tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my grandchildren who may not see the America that I have known and loved.
What this really means is "I'm glad I won't be around to take responsibility for the world I helped create".
I agree that it's wrong to expect people who do nothing to take advantage of the hard efforts of the people who do everything.
However the people in times past who had the ability to do everything have created a world where we are now paying ransom to people they have oppressed instead of uplifting, hated instead of loving, and feared instead of coming to understand. This is the world created by looking inward instead of outward, and failing to help our fellow man.
In other words, the bills have come due on lifetimes of selfish behavior. The same way the environment has suffered from pollution - our social, political, and economic, systems are polluted and mal-adjusted.
Shortsighted policies and behaviors that created the course we are on. Good change can happen, but not while hate and fear rule the day.