Who Owns America?

Today after doing programs and works on my class, I did a daily read on my newspaper as usually, I always find myself going to a local reporter blog all the time call “Journey to Justice” by Jerry Mitchell. Jerry is an investigative reporter for the Clarion Ledger and he has been doing this for 4 months now. He got a piece on his blog talking about the aftermath of the healthcare reform overhaul signed by President Obama and why there is so much rage over this. He hit this paragraph along with Leonard Zeskind , president of the Institute for Research and & Education on Human Rights, on the head with this one.

Much of the rage spilling over from the health care debate has little to do with public policy.It’s all about who owns America. To quote them, they want their country back.

Sometimes change is something that we have to just accept. The Tea Partiers are people who cannot accept change. Check this out.

You have been training on the job for 4 years. One day, A new boss comes in and start changing things around. Now you can tell him all you want how this job is done, but at the end of the day, he want things done either his way or the highway. You pout, get mad, snicker, tell rumors, and even plot on how to get your boss fired until one day either you are fired, quit, or have changed. That is how America is now. Most people have learned to adjust while others are still griping at something that is not going to change until either they learn to live with it or now. I can tell you that growing up in a town where in the 60s, 70s, and 80s a rest- haven was for tourists to the days of now where historic sites are hanging on a string (no pun). You have people that cannot accept that change did come and times have outgrown either you or the person next to you. You are sacred because the things that you are use to is dimishing and your privileges are not what they use to be. So the question is….

“Who owns America?”

The answer is “We all do. If you were born here, or even became a citizen here. You own a piece of what is the greatest country in the world.”

Tea partiers need to know that violence to one does not help it and lies makes it worse. Most of the talk show pundits do not come to projects, surburbs that people have been trying to take back, and small towns that are run down either because of people hatred of their skin or living. America is not Ozzie and Harriet (for those who don’t know what I am talking about, google that one). It is the places where dreams can come true if you make them, but you have to earn it. Even Barry “Mr. Conservative” Goldwater said the following quote in 1964.

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The beauty of the very system we Republicans are pledged to restore and revitalize, the beauty of this Federal system of ours is in its reconciliation of diversity with unity. We must not see malice in honest differences of opinion, and no matter how great, so long as they are not inconsistent with the pledges we have given to each other in and through our Constitution."

(An Ace Thought: Don't you love how many Republicans misread this quote?)

So when some Tea Partier ask you “Do you want to take America back?”

Tell them, “America has never left me, I just adjusted to what America is offering me.”

SA

Tell your story of how you own a piece of America.

It all about who owns America.