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Yes as a nation I remember a young president on a crisp clear day asking not what your country can do for you, but you can do for your country. And the nation took that heart. Peace Corps and Vista a couple of examples of that.
I remember a nation repulsed as they watched children and teenagers being hosed down in the streets of our southern cities. And the nation took action. A landmark civil rights bill.
I remember a nation being outraged that a president would try to rig an election, burglarize his enemies office and pay hush money to the perpetrators. And as a nation we forced a resignation.
But now...but now...
We see elections rigged with electronic voting machines and do nothing
we see districts gerrymandered and do nothing.
We see a president lie us into war and yet we vote for more military spending and do nothing
We see a president let a major American city laid to waste after a hurricane and do nothing
When we can't order our priorities to include universal health care like every other industrialized nation, we have lost our soul....
Worst yet...
We have let a mean streak into our national soul.
We shout over each other on news talk shows and chalk it up to entertainment.
We have relaxed or eliminated the civilized façade that held our societal glue together and yet laugh at the insults to those who can't defend themselves.
We witness the killing of 20 little children at an elementary and still value the possession of a gun over human life we have definitely lost our soul.
and most of all...
We cut the only funding the hungry have, we cut the money for housing for the homeless, we cut education for the masses, we cut mass transit for those who can't afford private transportation, and we enable the obscenely rich to get richer and control the national dialogue.
But worst even yet: we accept it. For every time we could have called, emailed, written, gone to a meeting and better yet get out in the streets and have passed that up...a little more of our soul flees.
If we don't speak up...no one will.....let's restore our soul...lets call for the decency and care that marked us as a nation. Let us lead...and for once and for all.... LET US PUT PEOPLE FIRST!!!