Divisive

Too late for this election :-(  From the Republicans talking about formalizing conservative religious values (abortion specifically) to the Democrats demonizing the ‘rich’ and segregating the population with terms like ‘working class’ it seems that they’ve learned nothing about our history, politicking or psychology. 

Our constitution was written to include everyone.  (Compromises in race not withstanding that were corrected as our society evolved,) the treatises included applied to everyone.  The first amendment’s statement about religion was to allow everyone to be included regardless of their god.  The equal protection clause allowed these rights to apply regardless of where you travelled in these United States. 

By trying to codify anti-abortion legislation and marriage laws the Republicans are dividing our society.  Americans cannot agree about abortion.  Even amongst Christians and Jews there are internal disagreements.  Therefore we must air on the side of freedom.   

I’d like to see someone come out and say ‘I am pro-life, but I understand that the religions of our people differ so I’ll leave this decision to the individual.’  If the ‘right’ will learn this concept than I’ll teach the ‘left’ that there is no such thing as the ‘separation of church and state’ in the constitution and maybe we can come to some common ground. 

This is all aside from the fact that this should not be a federal question at all.  There are no provisions of the constitution that allow for federal control of anything near this subject.   

By using divisive language like ‘working class’ the Democrats fracture our society irreparably.  I remember hearing blue collar / white collar comparisons in elections past, but this is the first where ‘working class’ comes to bare.  The collar comparison is valid.  There are those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk.  They must work together or the whole thing falls apart! 

‘Working Class’… the first time I heard it was Hillary Clinton telling a bunch of blue collar workers that government had to cater to the ‘working people’ of America.  What does that even mean?  As a sociological term it seems to mean someone that works but does not own the means of production, like ‘proletariat’ in Marxist writings.  Mrs. Clinton implied in that one felled swoop that white collar workers aren’t ‘working’.  Wow.  Don’t tell me that when I get home after a 9 hour day exhausted.  I’ve been in both collars and let me tell you, the job satisfaction is higher and the stress level lower when the job stops when you punch out.   

The white collar comes with responsibilities and a lot more stuff that follows you home at night and interrupts your sleep.  The servers I manage run 24×7 and could have an issue at anytime and troubleshooting is never clear cut.  But, the load of concrete I poured when I drove a mixer was done when I washed the truck and punched out for the day never to be thought of again. 

This is all over simplifying, of course, but it illustrates the points.  Can we get the Libertarian Party to be that middle ground?