There’s an invisible line running down the center of America , right? It runs between the Democrats and the Republicans – the Left and the Right –Black and White –Rich and Poor ---

                   Bull. Those so-called lines are the invention of the imaginative and the extremists.

                    Most of us aren’t any different than we’ve always been. We get up. We go do our survival thing and if we’re lucky, we come home to some kind of peace at night. We believe doing the right thing gets the right results. The fact that we turned our backs for a bit and the greedos got the upper hand hasn’t changed that. It just means we need to “displace” a few greedos.

               I don’t think morality in America has changed as much as the immoral would like for us to believe.

              You’ve heard that saying, “Morality is a luxury we cannot afford”?

              That’s bull too. Considering how short life is and how little it looks as if all of this is an accident, I’d say that we cannot afford to do without morality. Take risks with your own soul, buddy. Not mine.

              Besides, doing the right thing has always felt better in the long run. Better results too. A lot better.

             (I offer the home mortgage crisis as an example – then there’s health care…)

            Most of us still don’t believe stealing, killing or lying is alright. Yes, I know. I repeat this, but it's important.

           Most of us believe in love, in spite of ourselves.

           Most of us have someone we care about. Maybe mom, maybe a spouse, a child or a friend. If we’re between those, there’s usually still something that matters that feels good enough to protect.

             Not as many of us only care about “number one” as the rest of us think. We behave that way when we are isolated from the results of our own action or more commonly our inactions.

               Most of us think that business and profit are good, mandatory even, but not at the expense of everything else.

                Most of us don’t care if John Average keeps a gun in his bedroom to defend himself with but it drives us nuts when guns end up in the hands of those suffering from hormonal surges strong enough to cause a person’s thoughts to change from “Oh, that’s gross” to “Okay..so...um…so where does the nose go when you kiss?”

               We don’t think kids and unstable people should have guns. I don’t think the more honest members of the NRA would dispute that if they were sure we wouldn’t go after their personal guns. It hasn’t been so long ago that the good guys and the gun guys were on the same side.

               Most of us want politicians that look after our interests. Most of us thought that’s what we paid them for. Not for listening to those with the most money, making the most noise and doing what’s best for them.

                Unfortunately, due to some poor legislation that led to many investing in things that weren’t in the country’s best interest-- we’ve got a real mess to sort out. There's not enough actual production going on here and the prices of some of what IS here are so out of line, many of us are forced to look elsewhere.

             Foreign interests and goods are filling our homes and those helping them are getting rich while the rest of us slide down the tubes.

            Well, we voters let it get that way, now we’re going to have to dig ourselves out. Don’t get mad, it’s true. Our forefathers made the people the boss of this country and that means the “buck stops” at you and me Besides, until we face reality and own this mess, we can’t change it.

           It’s a good thing we aren’t ordinary. Ordinary people might be intimidated by that. Americans will see the challenges and opportunities. Good stock, you know.

            Look on the bright side. Figuring out what your Senator and Congressperson have been up to and voting accordingly is still easier than having a revolution. 

            Most of us believe there’s some kind of higher power out there, but hate it when others claiming to be on intimate terms with a higher power start trying to call the shots for the rest of us. No stealing, lying and killing. Those are the biggies all religions agree on.

            Unless of course, someone starts a fight -  Then we are compelled to defend ourselves. God wants us peaceful, but that doesn’t mean letting the psychos take over.

            A lot of people hate the wealthy. A lot of the wealthy deserve it. A lot of them don’t.

             Not that many of us begrudge those that are particularly smart or hard working having more, it’s just when they get it by buying politicians and changing the laws to make the illegal legal for them -  thereby victimizing the ordinary man – that really makes us hate them.

             And makes us determined to change those laws back.

            Almost all of us hate the way laws are written so that only a select few understand them. We don’t like the blending and throwing in garbage on the end of them either. We know it’s not accidental that things are so bent against us ordinary folks.

              Most of us see that waiting for a rescue of some kind isn’t working, so more of us are looking at our politicians suspiciously. We’re looking at some of the big-bucks-boys too. As paths become clearer, more of us are willing to pay attention to make sure this business gets taken care of.

            All of us hate loud and overly sexualized commercials. We hate big pharma commercials too. Especially the ones that make us have to urinate or feel like we should be having more sex than we actually want to.

            Most of all we hate those poor people that stand in those hospital cubicles and demandingly ask, “Do you have insurance?” while you feel like you aren’t entirely certain if you’re going to live or not.

            Most of us don't think it's okay for thousands of us to by dying for the lack of care, especially when we look at our paychecks and see how much of it is missing. We think our money most certainly should buy us the right to health care and some for those that can't bring home a paycheck as well. 

            Most of us want to know why the hell it doesn't and who the a******s are that decide who dies as well as why two aspirin costs us fifty bucks in the hospital. This one isn't going away. We aren't going away either. We really are mad as hell and those in charge that want to stay in charge would do well to scramble for high ground or make changes. Real changes. Real Soon.

            We’re working on it. We’d better keep working on it. After we’re done working on it, we’d better work on how it got so bad without us noticing.

            If we do any less, we won’t be leaving a better America for the next generations. We all know that is a must. We also know that we’re smart enough to make America better for our own generations too.

            Now. Shall we acknowledge that the devil’s newest tool is to overwhelm us before we start? Good. Then we can get started. Leave that intimidation outside for the sissies.

God bless America.

The Political Stray