The next President and Congress must be able to unite the Country again

Most media focus today on leading this Country is on the President. This focus shortchanges all the other important leaders in our future, mostly our Congress people, and their hired staffs that do much of the real work. Collectively, they are the leaders to unite the Country again. Or they can continue to practice dividing the Country, albeit at their own peril. In both cases, the voters will sort things out as the ultimate shoppers seeking uniting the Country, if it comes to this. Then we may have to wait until the 2012 elections, but it will surely come as most people are fed up with the present poor performance of most politicians and staffs at all levels, federal, state, and local. There are exceptions, bright shining lights if you will, that have shown uniting and managing the Country can be restored. So all is not gloomy, just in need of improving.

Uniting the Country means civility, debate, votes, and then working together to implement the vote. It means voting for those who support a healthy political process. It means voting out those who support the politics of personal destruction. For the younger group of American citizens, the present state of affairs is not normal, in many humble opinions. The present state of affairs is just not normal, historically. But young and old we can vote restoring a healthy political process so, maybe even debate it so. Politics has never been some kind of kumbaya come to San Francisco Rodney King can we all just get along kind of thing, certainly not in a Country as big as our Country. The process has always been rough and tumble, with historically a common bond of our Country’s interest as dominating things. Of course, just what our Country’s interest is what politics is about, but what also existed then and needs to come back is the process, and the respect for civility, debate, votes, and then working together to implement the vote. To get there also includes minimizing those our American nature has recently seemed to appreciate: anarchists, political guerilla fighters, and now self appointed environmental dictators. They are not on the path to our Country’s future.

Most voters appreciate practical examples of past political debates. Now deceased Daniel Patrick Moynihan predicted many things, many never popular at the time. One (in the 1960’s) had to do with the counter effect of welfare dividing up families in order to gain benefits. Even in the late 1920’s (even before my time) there was much debate after the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 as to the benefit of federal government loans and creating a dependency based on government help after disasters. The monumental Civil Rights legislations (in the 1960’s) also caused much rancor and debate, and then citizens got in step to make things happen.

Unless we Americans think we are about constant change, to include changing our society, then perhaps we can just work on implementing all that has gone on in our Country’s history, and pay for it. Consider this as one start point for a debate and a learning process by our future leaders to unite the Country again.