It has been a year of prose, pretend, unpredictability and thank goodness promise. For some, who wished for equal rights, the road was bumpy, bruising, and finally big enough to fit both a heterosexual and homosexual in the same unit, foxhole, and dormitory of the military. Still a bit shy from over at least DADT is closer to a finish line than ever before.
2010 had demonstrated loud and clear that what you say has much more weight than on what you do. And if what you say is never based on fact, but relies on fiction you have a better chance in relating to those who need no truth, but feast on lots of fear, foibles and disenfranchisement.
The past year has created a bit of religious fervor, filled with frenzied rantings and ravings that Jesus is disappointed in America because of all things, America has become less Christian. Even though we have a President who wants health care for all, children of immigrants to access citizenship, equal pay for both genders, payment for the unemployed, better schools for the children, it seems those who think they know Jesus feel while the President helps the helpless there is a war on Christianity.
Many people have stepped forward to provide leadership to a flock of lemmings who feel lost and need no compass but the bile, bigotry and bias of those who would rather divide to conquer, dismiss to define, and censure than find consensus. Popular personalities have risen from the depths of denial, the recess of non-reason, the inner sanctums of ignorance. Lunatic luminaries like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck need no truth but their Tweets or chalkboards to make A equal B equal C equal hate. Senile sophomoric morons like John McCain can hold up entire good intentions because his intention is to spite the public that voted for Obama. And the good ole’ Conservative activist judges on the Supreme Court had decided that Corporations are people too and as people have the same rights to buy politicians and elections.
It has been a year where reason has left the room replaced by insanity, and ignorance. It has been a year when NO was said more often and Yes we can feel upon deaf ears. It has been a year where values were based lies, morals swept under the carpet, and democracy cried out in pain. A scary year for me indeed as it relates to the politics and government of this country.
On this eve of the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, I too, like many friends and family am making a list for the next 365 days. I am hoping and praying, wishing and wanting good to gain ground. I am seeking prosperity and peace, promise and provision for all. But most of all, as it relates to this country, I am imagining a sudden realization that silence is not golden, that sitting idly by is a waste, and that the shrieks of others we hear is just deafening, saying very little and making even less sense. I am hoping that the voice of reason prevail, and the words “...of the people and by the people...” gain ground and America becomes a nation where all of us can be proud and accepted participants.
Happy and healthy 2011, please make sure it leads us into a country that does not deny, divide and destroy all who live here. Please make sure it is a year of inclusion instead of exclusion, and please make it a year in which we all can and do make a difference.
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