The Future

I wonder where our great country is going. There are changes to be made. I think it is time people do what they say as far as the whole Democrats and Republicans working together. To me, it has been more like, "Hey, you agree with me and we'll be fine." A game of big bullies not brains. Let me remind you of Patrick Henry's words, "The distinction between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, and New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American."
This is what I believe we should be saying to one another, "I am not a Democrat or Republican, or any party. I am not a political tool, but an American."
When will the media stop their games? When will we come out of ourselves and realize our very being, our liberties are at stake? We are standing on the front porch arguing with the paper boy about where the paper should be thrown while the thief walks right through the back door and steals our livelihood! When will we stop hating?!
I believe we are in the midst of a civil war of ideologies. No single president can be the savior of America. The people must stand and make a change! In any relationship there has to be compromise. I am sorry to tell you, but you won't always get your way; I won't always get my way. Tolerance has lost its meaning.
I'll tolerate you if you agree with me and let me bully you. Why do we place so many conditions on one another? IF you do this, then I'll do that. There are people who want to destroy America and we are destroying ourselves on the inside. Our enemies won't have to do much else other than watch the show if we continue along the path of hatred. I am talking to all of you: the liberal who despises Bush, the conservative who claims Obama is a Muslim, the Christian who claims to love but hates the homosexual, the tolerant humanitarian who hates God, etc., etc.
Continue along this path and we will end up like the flag above: backwards and in a grave yard.

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of all man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows howt o put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated....Panics, in some cases, have their uses;...their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered."
Thomas Paine
The American Crisis (1776)