Our saving grace is our American humanity

Many trends are out and about. The recent deaths of good students by low lifes in Chicago are just an example. Our American society has spent decades and billions of dollars to try make things better. We have failed, so far. Though some things have gotten better, most of the improvement is do to our American character. All this can be summed up as to our American votes and social standards, and the politicians we have elected at all levels.

It is less a funding idea than an American standards idea. Can you believe this is a novel idea?

What seems so naïve is there are alternatives to what has gone on the last decades. And the idea of politicians giving priority in their objectives to making a budget work is seemingly lost these days. The old idea of our elected politicians fighting over funding and priorities seems to be gone. What a shame. And we elected them. For lack of knowing what to do, they do what they know. That seems to be where we are today, at all levels, local, state, and federal.

One way or another, Americans care more about their busy lives raising a family and working than anything else our political leaders think is important. When times get hard, they do even pay more attention. This can be short sighted, but must be considered, especially by politicians.

In the meantime what appears to be the federal Congress and the federal executive are trying to rule the whole USA by good intentions, vice the old fashioned way of checks and balances bolstered by our Constitution. These are momentous times as to what our American humanity will tolerate, and even gravitate towards. And if we want to change how things work, then one alternative is to use the Constitution as to new amendments, or even just changing older laws.
In older humanity days, bolstered by our Constitution, we went the amendment route, which is difficult, and on purpose. In the same vein, it represented what we as an American people wanted to do. Sounds fair, doesn’t it.
In the interim, the old time idea of a government at all levels devoted to improving our lot in life seems to have faded.
What seems to be going on these days suggests future frictions to include generational wars, urban vs. rural wars, and even our basic American humanity. Let’s vote.