Identity lost: How modern politics are tearing America apart
I'm so sick and tired of hearing Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about how hard they're fighting. Everything in the political world today is all about fighting… fighting, fighting, fighting. There are no winners in a political fight, there is only collateral damage, i.e., you and me. At the very first Democratic debate of this political season, the last question asked by the moderator was, "Who do you see as your greatest enemy?" Clinton's answer was not Iran, not Russia, but the Republicans. The Republicans! Her own fellow Americans are her greatest enemy. That's just not politics, that's civil war. Why can't we be Americans first? Rather than Democrats and Republicans first? Why can't we work together and work for compromise rather than fighting to win something that we cannot possibly put our collective fingers on? Don't we all want the same things? Don't we want to make a better life for ourselves in the future as well as for our children's futures? Why can't we lay down our weapons of vernacularism, and pick up the tools of compromise? Do we always have to get 100 percent of everything we want every single time we want it?
Isn't there enough fighting around the world already? We have Islamic extremists groups growing like weeds all over the world, recruiting people from over 80 countries worldwide and instead of focusing our energies on a method of ensuring our survival, we're fighting each other like children over what color crayon to color with next. Does it really matter which bathroom someone uses when there are jihadists with machine guns ready to kill them on their way to the "correct" bathroom? It's like saying, "So-and-so was murdered on their way to the bathroom in a terrorist attack, but at least they knew which bathroom they could use." Where has the value of human life gone?
