Trust and faith

Most Americans will accept about anything political. But if they lose trust and faith, then things will begin to change. We all expect to be ruled at all levels, and also expect to be represented at all levels. In our American past this idea has been to most citizen’s advantage, and they voted that way. Hence the trust and faith idea. And all levels means federal, state, county, and school board, for example.

The key idea to this voter is to be represented, and of course be able to vote. How else can I exhibit trust and faith in those who display these qualities I choose to vote for? Later paying the taxes for all this usually comes as I expect it will. Paying taxes is never an enjoyable experience, like in paying property taxes.

To follow this one line of logic, it is shameful that my daughter who lives in Charlotte, NC, has to hire private police protection on top of the local property tax paid police protection. Now that is a version of her local trust and faith. And you know what, she and her family are moving away.

If that is what it has come to in Charlotte, then voting will become a big deal in the next couple of decades. Paying property taxes is supposed to provide basic services.

Even paying other taxes, like federal income tax, is much the same. Having written one check to the federal government for over a million dollars in 2003 or so brings up the question of trust and faith, again. I don’t know where it went, and most importantly, how did I benefit from the payment?

Now there is much publicity, aka, news, about “spreading the wealth around”. Now many such good intentioned ideas have been tried before. Just where I live in Tennessee is such a recipient of these ideas, including hippie communes that migrated here. All, historically, fail in the end.

Why is pretty simple. It is a human kinda thing. Not all humans will tolerate dead beats, both males and females. One of the burdens in life is to have to work to support a family we choose to have. Now there are many variations of how we humans exist. All these variations include trust and confidence.

Now being manipulated by the best American advertising and political focus group efforts thrust to most Americans by our present media is just an advancement from the old time Nazi propaganda. The idea is pretty much the same, just more professional.

Now just how we will respond and vote is still unclear. The idea of human trust and faith, I suspect, will count a lot. Also organizing efforts like community organizers will influence things, too. But in the end numbers count, and the majority of Americans will vote based on their trust and faith.