Disagreement has become division. No two-party system can fix what it has inadvertently caused. Economic hardship, poverty, cuts to health care and the burden undocumented immigration has placed on middle-lower class Americans, while our veterans and homeless are dismissed and denied help, and every other controversial policy that keeps us blaming one-another for choices that are beyond our control. Beyond our vote. Beyond our democratic process.
The nature of this truth is cynical. Truth nonetheless.
I want to have a family. I want my children to have a fair job with a fair wage. We have that in common. Red or blue, man or woman, Democratic or Republican, gay or straight. We all want what is best for those we love. None of my neighbors are making that difficult. It is not made difficult by my boss, or the police, or the old woman upset about me smoking a cigarette in a public park. Nor is it made difficult by you, your sister or your friend who disagrees.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the record has long-since been broken.
We blame the billionaire CEO’s as much as we blame the local politicians. We blame our senators and the Electoral College. We blame our representatives who pursue their own agenda over the requests of their constituency. I blame myself for having the courage only to speak and not yet act – and I wish to act.
The line between protest and revolution is blurred but it must be walked.
Antonio E. Espinoza
Durango
