In this recent election process for the president of the United States, there is a lot of anger, and frustration with the people put into the spotlight of candidacy. A lot of solutions are presented, but they are not without their sense of control or entitlements, especially from the candidates themselves.
While I do not want to mention any of the names, the problems faced by the United States can be solved, but only by those willing to make a strong statement that says that they can solve them. I am not wholly convinced this is possible with the current selection.
So here's what I would say if I was running a campaign for president. Which I need to state on the record is something a normal person (especially myself) should not want.
First is that I would state that every decision that I would make would need to answer the following: How do we get to "YES"?
Jobs and Immigration are key points to be made, because we are so possessive of the fragile state of employment. We take what we can, in order to make enough to get by. But what if that wasn't an issue? What if we take this ball and run it as far as it can go. First we must understand that some jobs that exist probably shouldn't be in existence anymore. It's as if we fund things like the pony express when we have a currently functioning postal system. What we should strive for as a nation is to create an environment that has more and more jobs than there are people. We should make it clear that in order to be an employer here, that you should have citizens working for you and that those that aren't should want to become a proper citizen.
Next we should look at the impending problems dealing with healthcare. What has been given to the public is a farce at best and an insult at its worst. When I talk about jobs not being needed, what part of health requires insurance? Is insurance the solution to worsening health problems? No, that would be science and medicine. We fail this nation, when we fail to realize the problem is not in the solution but in the source of the problem itself. When we throw money at an issue, or in some cases medicine, we don't realize the source of the problem. We look at the conditions and then try to treat the condition, while ignoring the source of the problem. While our elected leaders fail to recognize this time and time again, we are faced with the ever impending gloom that the source of our problems are not being addressed.
That goes without saying that it applies to all areas of this country.
As far as this country goes, the way we have been handling issues also applies to where we have picked our battle grounds. We chose to wage a war on things we don't understand, drugs, terrorism, and even the frustrations of the inner city. Instead of addressing the source of the issues, we have opted quite badly to treat the conditions. In medical terms it would be like saying that the best solution to a fever is a topical cooling ointment because that will lower the temperature. It's insane to make those kinds of statements, because we fail everyone when we don't treat the underlying cause.
We decided to incriminate many of the inner city, because of the violence that exists, but where does that come from. I don't have a solution for this, because I don't understand the mindset that propels someone to resort to this measure, but if the issue is that people have become distraught because of worsening employment, wouldn't the answer be to foster the addition of more and more jobs? It's a literal question of what would need to exist for people to become happy to be doing a job?
Now the drug war is something that was spawned in the past century, but this war fails us on so many levels. You have tunnels dug underneath the border to this country, you have war torn Afghanistan being the growing fields for opium, and you have a policy that closely resembles the prohibition laws of years ago. Those things don't work. Instead they cause worse things to happen.
Take an example of marijuana. In most of the nation and in the federal view, this substance is considered as bad as any other illegal drug on the market. Some people even claim that this substance is a gateway to other drugs. The real problem with it is this. When you take something away that instead of giving the people the option of deciding its dangers, what you leave in its place is a vacuum of sorts, that fosters the sort of options that are even worse than the original problem. Where else would crystal meth have come from? What about heroin?
People are looking for ways to have to deal with some of the pain that is a part of life on this planet. When the prohibition laws were made, people resorted to making alcohol for themselves, which gave rise to the underground moonshiners. But here's the thing we should take from that: We need to acknowledge that when we just take something away, we don't look at the reason for why it is still there. Nor do we realize that something must take its place.
Which leads me to the elephant in America. It's guns. We have so much fear and pain, that we desperately hold onto whatever can keep us from losing our minds altogether. The solution is to not restrict guns, but to figure out how we can make it so that if you have a gun, you'll never need to have it on you. It's part trust, which is readily apparent that our representative law makers do not have in the people. It come down to a really simple question, why do we lock our doors? We need to get to a point where you can hand someone a gun and their reply should be "I don't need this."
There is more good in this country than we can know, but unless we learn that protesting, violence, thievery, or even hatred toward one another is not the solution, then we can get to the part that we know we can disagree but move forward. We can then change a punch to a face into a handshake or a hug. We can assist others when they are in need. We truly need to understand one another. We can be a country that not only says it's a great country, but one that people acknowledge IS a really great country.
So, how do we get to say "YES", so that this country can be better?
How do we take it to another level, to say this whole world can be better?
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