United Not Divided

Ramor Ryan once said, ~If solidarity is unity of purpose or togetherness, how to span this great divide of inequality, privilege, universal rights, political agency, and even our seeing things completely different? In constructing this bridge of international solidarity across we even begin?~ If you think about it, that's the million dollar question right there and being able to bring people together with words and/or action instead of creating a divide is considered to be far more imperative as it pertains to the state of a seemingly broken culture system sorely needing to be fixed, so to speak. For it's not a complicated situation indeed to understand as it merely takes common sense to not say and/or do anything one would end up regretting, whereby facing the consequences because of their utter recklessness in not thinking before they act/speak.

Without a doubt, it seems as if there has been as of late a tremendous amount of negativity in regards to harsh words being spoken, especially when it involves senseless acts of tragedy. A tragedy that happened on the night of Oct 1, 2017 in Las Vegas. It's those words that are intended to cut a much deeper divide rather than heal an already extremely sensitive open wound that was and still is fresh in the hearts, as well as minds of the American people. You see, a cold and heartless remark from CBS executive Haley Geftman-Gold concerning the unfortunate victims of the Vegas shooting referred to the country music fans attending a Jason Aldean as "Republican gun toters'' and in addition to that she wasn't sympathetic at all towards them. Fortunately, that controversial statement caused absolute outrage so much so she ended up getting fired from her job and rightfully so.

As I said before, words harshly spoken in a negative way doesn't help in bridging the divide as it causes more of the increase in distance to where it hinders the process of getting to the other side. For the most part, Democrats and Republicans will never really see eye to eye on certain hot button topics; but at the end of the day their human beings. Yet, it's a sad state of affairs when a human being such as Union County Democrat James Devine called for a "hunt" on Republicans and said he had little sympathy for Republican House Majority Whip Steve Salise after getting shot by James Hodgkinson during a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia along with 4 others. True, even though words can be spoken out of anger, the decision to not express concern on the health and well being of one's fellow man whom you disagree with from time to time shows an incredible lack of human decency.

Let me ask you this question as it concerns President Trump, no matter what you think of him personally and his policies, is there a way of bridging the gap in order to bring everybody together and not constantly be at war, in a manner of speaking? In other words, focusing on the more important issues facing the United States and abroad knowing how much hatred Trump gets from every direction. Thinking about it further, the news media as a whole has to be a responsible entity in not being out rightly biased and out for their own agenda in reporting what may or may not be solid pieces of potential damning information. Granted, I'm not a Trump supporter by any stretch of the imagination, but when the media and a certain number of Senator's sole focus is to get Trump out of office and brushing off other news that needs to be shed on there's something totally wrong in my honest opinion.

In retrospect, the words "lead by example" hold an incredibly deeper meaning now more than ever. Oftentimes, the childish antics and demeanor of those up in Washington D.C. are far too embarrassing to even contemplate. Sadly, there aren't any signs of the fighting between both sides to stop any time soon and so it's up to the American people to step up to be the true leaders we know we can be. Hey, we as citizens of the United States may have differences of opinions but when the chips are down we help our fellow man during times of great sadness and tragedy. Ultimately, it's what makes America great in coming together in being able to heal in times of immense crisis. In the end, let's all lead by example and take the initiative to be a more united not divided country because our elected officials aren't doing a very good job at it.