hope less

Hope or hopeless. Hopeful or Hopelessness. Why would or should or could there be any debate in finding hope? Why would or could or should there be any question that finding hope, living hope having hope something so common be something we have to prioritize? Why in a nation which prides itself in being one of Christian-Judeo persuasion and values fights a continuous war against hope, hoping instead to maintain hopelessness for some of its citizens? 

Long term unemployment benefits will expire in 22 days…food stamp allotments are being lessened…immigration reform is dying…more consternation about the web site for the Affordable Health Care Law then concern about just how many Americans might finality enjoy health care…the environment of the Earth is changing leaving ugly pock marks on our one and only planet…YET voices loud and angry insist none of the above is of any real great concern permitting a sense of hopeless and hopelessness. It is a season of miracles and joy in both the Christian-Judeo religions  from Hanukah to Christmas yet our politicians led by self serving puppeteers promising big bucks to evade hope want to deny, divide, demean and decide that hope for some is okay but hopelessness for others is even better.

What have we become when less food, less health care, less retirement dollars, less income, less equality is a norm. When did we wander away from being a village caring for all of its individuals? How did selfish grow in stature while selfless goes into hiding? When did hope become a matter of cost, an issue of selection, a meaningless attribute? Why have most of our politics focused on hopeless chiding the less fortunate as drug users, lazy, burdensome? How has a nation which now considers the Bible more important than the Constitution permitted the greatest inequity in income to become common place? When did hope become a commodity traded on Wall Street, praised by the Corporations as only affordable by some and pandered by politicians who would rather find an enemy within then a friend?

Hope or hopeless, hopeful or hopelessness? why and how did we even find ourselves in a conversation even begging this question? Who are we becoming in this great nation of ours when we are okay with hope for some and hopeless for others?