2007 Soap Box Archives

America Divided

In my seventy years I can't remember a time when America was more divided along political, social, religious and ideological lines and to tell the truth I believe that the situation will get worse before it gets better.

Take this next Presidential election for instance, although the left wing of the Democrat party has not solidly lined up behind a candidate as yet. But of course they'll choose what they consider to be the lesser of two evils and
support the Democrat no matter who it is.

They want the troops brought home at all costs, no matter the ramifications and I'll bet you a silver dollar to an apple core that if a Democrat is elected, unless it happens to be somebody as naive as John Edwards or Dennis
Kucinich, which is about as likely as the moon orbiting backwards, the Democrats will not immediately pull the troops out of Iraq which will infuriate their far left supporters.

And if a Republican is elected it's still going to infuriate the far left wing of Democrats so political peace is not in the offing in the near future as far as I can see.

What this country needs is a unifier, a man or woman who is capable of communicating with the people, maybe an independent who could take the best points from both camps and explain his or her position and why they feel
that way in plain English.

Perhaps someone who, instead of depending on the media to get their opinions out, would invite randomly chosen American citizens from every walk of life to sit in the press room and ask questions they wanted answered, not the stilted enquiries the agenda driven reporters ask but questions dealing with the every day problems of the rank and file citizenry.

It's time for someone to start playing to the people, not the press. To be concerned with the price of gas, not how they come off on a sound bite. To deal with the people, not the polls.

What we need is a person who will take their case to the people who make this country great, who will go directly to the public without their words being filtered through the media hacks who twist and mold it to mean whatever fits their purposes.

Why should our candidates have to sit in front of TV personalities at debates and answer questions they come up with? Why shouldn't they have to sit in front of a crowd of regular American citizens and answer to their satisfaction? After all we are the ones who put them in office.

It's already been proven how out of touch the Congress and Senate are. Some of them were actually shocked that the American public didn't swallow their immigration bill, hook, line and sinker.

Well unless I miss my guess they have some more rude awakenings coming when election time rolls around. I know the people in my part of the country are really mad at our Senator who voted in favor of pursuing this ridiculous piece of legislation.

And that's as it should be. Make the politicians who want our vote come before the public and make their case unimpeded by the media people who stand between us.

At least that's how I feel about it.

Pray for our troops

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels
May 29, 2007