The human experience. What is it? To each of us, its meaning varies. To me, the human experience shapes the way we think, the way we feel, our morals, our beliefs, and our political view. This week I was overwhelmed with news and redefining my own political stance based on my own human experiences. I don't know. Maybe it was the flu, the lack of fluids and food that got me thinking, or the hours upon hours of news I watched for two days straight with a NyQuil flooded mind. For a minute I even blamed it on Bieber Fever...but this week was eye opening. Like finding out that the person you have had a relationship with all these years is not really the person you think they are. I found myself watching the events in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen unfold. I toggled between my ever faithful Fox news and the local media as I watched protesters gather across our country to have their voices heard regarding public works, unions, teaching and education. And then my mother called and I was given a crash course on radical Islam. Too much information but helpful. Her bottom line regarding Christianity and Radical Islam and the situation in the Middle East: "Angie, it doesn't matter if people here don't believe it. THEY believe it. And you cant reason with an ideology". I agree. By Friday night I had a migraine.
What is happening in our world? Our nation? Our government? The cuts to education are shocking. At both the higher ed level and the state level. $350 Million from K-12? How the hell is that justified? Are we supposed to believe that there is nothing else that could sustain a larger cut? I think about what has already been cut, the extra curricular programs, teachers, music, arts, sports....and then there are parents who will work harder and work more to be able to fund these activities no longer provided at the school level and the kids will be left unsupervised with access to too much of the wrong information. Whats left to do but get in trouble. Call it pessimistic, or call it being a realist. I have a teenager. I am a single mom with two elementary age kids. I know.
How much money do we give towards humanitarian efforts? Haiti. How many billions did we send there, only to see them washed out by another hurricane? How much of our resources did we send to Indonesia when they had a tsunami wipe them out? Why do we continue to put up with the crap from the Mexican drug cartel? Mexico doesn't have a drug problem, we do. And their citizens are fleeing their own country to ours for a better life. In doing so, they live off our welfare programs, their children are born here and can attend our schools while their parents remain illegals. And the border patrol have a thankless job. ICE agents are not allowed to carry weapons in Mexico but they are assassinated, unarmed, yet they have diplomatic immunity and we don't retaliate? How much American money has gone into the Middle East to help these people find "Democracy"? And when you ask the hard questions to the obvious problems in our own nation, the answer is that we are a humanitarian nation. We have it to give. Well...we don't. No other country is providing the sanctuary and solitude and relief that America provides to foreign nations. And now we are up to our knees in debt and need and who is there for us? No one. Not a damn soul. We are on our own.
This week, I gave up on Republicans. I gave up on Democrats. I have zero faith in their capability to operate effectively and efficiently. Now...I am traveling the Independent road. If push comes to show I would still say I am more conservative than liberal but my own human experience, my own needs for my children, my life and my country have taken priority. To each his own...it's time for us to step up and take care of ourselves.
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