The time has come to open our eyes
It seems these days we are confronted by many crises- from nature, and from our own hand. Until it affects us in our homes, we choose to pull the "wool over our eyes".
Neighbors trade food for gasoline just to get to work (food pantries are the fastest growing cottage industry). Neighbors die from unaffordable health insurance and costly drugs. Loved ones return from an un-winnable war, along with hundreds of thousands of others with PTSD, brain damage and bodies riddled with holes; to relive the hell of war within the walls of their mind, body, soul and home; their overwhelming needs gone by the wayside.
Why continue to stand behind these politicians, subjecting more and more souls to suffer? What does that say about us? What are we going to do about it? We can't leave it to bureaucracy as it is now. Politicians have proven to be greedy and irresponsible.
Is it about power over the powerless, living vicariously through shameful heads of government?
Is closing ones eyes an act of empathy and humanity, by voting the same politicians into office regardless of their immoral voting habits?
Is it about minding ones own business at home, but abroad those who hurt don't count?
Is it about succumbing to politicians rhetoric, emotional blackmail and finally their vote in Congress?
Is it about the right to kill through others, the winner defining who is criminal?
Is it too hard for a superpower to use understanding, compassion and empathy facing problems peacefully instead of hiding behind warheads and election financers?
Is freedom about using our children's inheritance to wage war, give billions to executives and big business abroad and at home, killing our dreams?
Our vision is clouded, maybe blinded; lost in the all consuming flames of greed endangering our true lives into becoming a mere shell when the embers die down. We must do better! "The true journey of discovery is not in discovering new landscapes but in developing new eyes."
Randi Scheurer
Congressional candidate
Lindenhurst