Elected leaders don’t do what they were elected to do
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Editor,
Food for thought: this was printed in our Sunday bulletin as one of our readings, and seems to me worth sharing in this letter.
“Syria has sinned against its people — a crime. But just who, tell me who, gave us the job of cop for the world? We lost the moral high ground years ago, if we ever had it. To begin with, we killed the natives, tortured our slaves, dropped the A-bomb. Do we remember Vietnam? Napalm, Agent Orange? We went into Iraq for an oilman’s dream. Casting the first stone so many times is not wise. Darfur, Rwanda, Kosovo; atrocities abound. What now? Why now? Children will die. Bombs kill. What makes us think we can always go it alone? Self-righteous angels we are not. The truth is no one is innocent. Bless us all. Bless us all.” — Reverend Theresa Novak, UU Church, Ogden, Utah.
And another thought. This from Roots Action: “Early indications are that neither the new Republican Congress nor the Democratic minority (nor President Obama) will be pushing for national legislation on the model of what voters just passed on ballot initiatives across the country: raising the minimum wage, banning fracking, funding schools, taxing millionaires and billionaires, providing paid sick leave, and imposing background checks on gun purchases.”
On the contrary, it is expected that Congress and the administration will be messing around for a couple years on stuff that is definitely not the main reasons the 40 percent who voted, voted in the great majority for Republicans and the hope that changes would come that really matter to us.
Well, let’s keep track and see how this goes. We might as well busy ourselves in keeping track and speaking out because certainly just sitting complacently and expecting our elected leaders to do what we voted them into office to do is probably not in the cards.
Bob McClellan
Polson
