In the meantime, my brother-in-law Doug Payton has brought up the question and provided some good thoughts over at Considerettes today, citing a dialogue begun by the Homespun Bloggers.
What are your thoughts?
--James Jewell
23 Kasım 2004 Salı
What Holds Our Nation Together?
One of the most interesting questions of our time is that of the great divide in America—the culture wars, liberal/conservative, red/blue, pro-life/pro-choice, north/south, religious/secular, and many, many more. The nation is divided countless ways. Is that a problem? What is it that holds us together? They are questions I have been contemplating enough to begin a book on the topic; a piece of fiction. Hope I can find the time to finish it.
In the meantime, my brother-in-law Doug Payton has brought up the question and provided some good thoughts over at Considerettes today, citing a dialogue begun by the Homespun Bloggers.
What are your thoughts?
--James Jewell
In the meantime, my brother-in-law Doug Payton has brought up the question and provided some good thoughts over at Considerettes today, citing a dialogue begun by the Homespun Bloggers.
What are your thoughts?
--James Jewell
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I think we are less divided than ever before. I think the divisions seem large, mostly because of the media, and because we are so similar we literally make mountains out of molehills. With TV, the Internet, etc., we share more of the same experiences than ever before. The homogenizing of our culture, our food etc. is apparent to anyone who travels the length & breadth of the country to eat at the same McDonald's or TGI Fridays.
YanıtlaSilMany of our core beliefs, accepted now, were wildly divisive not too long ago. Some were contributed by liberal--arguments they won include equal pay, sexual harrassment, Civil rights(tho not necessarily affirmative action), national education standards, Social Security, far reaching interstate commerce clause requiring federal intervention virtually everywhere. Conservatives won on lower taxes (even liberals can't imagine 70% brackets), monetary policy, deregulation,a strong military, workfare, tough crime laws.
We all agree education is important. We all agree we need a Federal Reserve, and that the gold & silver standards aren't appropriate. We all agree that seniors need help with medicine and housing, even if we don't agree how best to deliver them. None of us can imagine a person of color being denied a hotel room; indeed, the Terrell Owens/MNF controversy was notable because the race of the participants wasn't even a blip on the screen.
Yes, there are issues that divide us. But Nader is not wrong when he says that not too much separates the two parties.