A House Divided

I am depressed

no not in a clinical sense

But this political campaign season has me down

Does the tone of this thing bother anyone else?

So what is wrong with it?

Hmmmmm

Well there is the fact that everyone is playing games with the truth

There is the fact that the two sides are so far apart

There is the fact that people seems to be willing to say anything to get elected

and

Do anything to get power

Without even thinking about the impact on people

Real people

There is the fact that we are, as a nation divided

The hate is palpable

Go ahead, read a blog or an article on the campaign

or on the stances of either party

If you go into the comment section and find honest dialog

show me the way

All I see is name calling

Hate

Rigidity

Blindness

No one is talking to anyone else, it is all monolog

there is no dialog

Stupid

Fool

Liar

Cheat.....

That is the quality of the discourse

When did money become more important than caring for people?

When did we stop listening to each other?

When did we stop working together to create solutions?

Whenever it happened, it has to stop

As we go forward for the next 

horridly long months until November

I would like to have us remember the words of two pretty special people

"Love your neighbor as yourself"  Jesus

"A house divided against itself cannot stand "  Abraham Lincoln

And becoming "undivided" does not mean one side destroying the other

It means loving the other, and learning to collaborate......

Sigh

I am depressed

Blessings 

Stephen