The problem is that there is no bipartisanship anymore…The other side that everyone says is the Devil is probably not as much of a Devil as people make it out to be…And vice versa…We get into all these debates about which is the better party, and there is a lot of political grandstanding going on…Meanwhile, it doesn’t help all those starving right here in this country RIGHT NOW…Or the ones who can’t afford decent health care…At the same time, the opioid drug crisis and suicide rates are out of control, which is leading to a lower life expectancy among people…We throw away more food in this country, while people still starve for no reason…We have not dealt with mental health issues the way we should…Common sense ideas are negated because politicians don’t want to offend anyone…Politicians tend to fight the other guy’s plans to fix things because they’re the other guys’ plans, and really don’t care if the plans have any merit…If it’s a Democratic plan, the Republicans want nothing to do with it…If it’s a Republican plan, the Dems say no automatically…And really, despite anything you could say about him, the late Sen. John McCain at least tried to reach across the aisle once in a while…Now there’s so much gridlock and distraction that NOTHING worthwhile gets done and real progress barely gets made, and that’s if they can sneak the good bills by the President somehow and get him to sign them…He may well have a good heart and I can’t be a judge of the man’s innermost heart, but…Wouldn’t it be nice if politicians just started working together on occasion for the common good like in the old days??? People had their differences but they didn’t let their anger get in the way of their friendships…Aren’t we told not to let the sun go down on our anger? And yet, you see it all the time on the political shows, at press conferences and in the online comment sections…This division and polarity has done nothing to help the ones who really need it…And we’ve lost a little inspiration in this country…No one aspires us to greatness…No one is that bold! In the past, we had people like John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou and even Ronald Reagan to share inspirational words of wisdom…Even if you didn’t like President Obama, you have to admit he was a decent man who had dinner with his family every night and promoted the values of kindness and generosity, even if you disagreed with his policies…A man of honor and integrity that at least deserved respect, as all humans do, as brothers and sisters, children of God…When Jesus spoke of those in need, he did not specify that one group was more worthy than another to receive aid in distress either…The Good Samaritan parable is one we should all keep in mind…If we are Republican, should we not help our fellow Democrats in distress? If we are Democrat, do we turn away when a Republican needs our help? Matt. 25:40 states that whatever we do for the least among us, we have done it unto Him…If we would stop playing the politics game once in a while, we might actually get some things done for the good of our neighbors, our nations and beyond that, the world!
