Like many of you, I get up each morning and read the news. And like many of you, I guess, I quickly get depressed about our state of being. It doesn\u2019t matter what you read; most of the stories are about dissension, killings, bickering politicians, and the \u201cculture war.\u201d Where is the good news about how we cooperated, got along, and did something worthwhile for all of us? I know many people who have just given up reading the news, following politics, or even voting. It\u2019s sad.<\/p>\n
It seems we\u2019ve seized upon our ideologies to a fault. We can\u2019t agree on how to fix our roads and bridges. A nation of immigrants, we\u2019ve become xenophobes. The \u201cnativists\u201d are energized. Our disagreement over guns has paralyzed us. Republicans and Democrats don\u2019t just disagree; they hate each other. Liberals are ridiculed; conservatives are often called Nazis. We don\u2019t trust our elections, and we have lost confidence in the police. Compromise has become a dirty word; a sense of community has broken down. Racial discord has gotten worse, not better. Science is politicized. Universities are derided. Some churches have gotten politically engaged; others have refused to speak out. All of the above have become \u201cpolitically correct.\u201d Over 500 years of Western progress is being threatened: the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, the Reformation, and constitutional government are under siege.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t blame this state of affairs on the media\u2014radio, television, or newspapers. However overly zealous, biased, or partisan they might be at times, the fault lies with us. We, individually and collectively, are responsible for what has happened. Without our indifference or our participation this new anarchy could not prosper. We need to get a grip. We all put our pants on the same way, \u201cone leg at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Like many of you, I get up each morning and read the news. And like many of you, I guess, I quickly get depressed about our state of being. It doesn\u2019t matter what you read; most of the stories are about dissension, killings, bickering politicians, and the \u201cculture war.\u201d Where is the good news about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-robert-fischer"],"yoast_head":"\n