I don’t know when it happened, but at some place and time in our history, we forgot we are all American Citizens. Being a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Jew, or Muslim is your religion, not who you are. Any more so than being a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Socialist is who you are. It is only how you vote or voted or where you go on a certain day of the week. You are first and foremost an American Citizen. When in Mexico and asked who are you, your answer is not Baptist or Democrat, it’s, “I’m an American.”
I remember back when I was in school. They taught us that as part of this great country we had a duty as citizens. Think about that! You don’t get to live here for free – you have a duty to perform. It is not the politicians or the preachers who are responsible for your soul, or for the running of this country. If the American people do not accept their responsibilities as citizens and do away with these titles that divide us as citizens, and don’t take on the duty of running the Nation, then this great experiment is finished.
We don’t have to agree on everything. Religions don’t all believe alike, but they find common ground in the fact they all believe in a God, and from that one point they can work together if given the chance.
We must embrace the idea of a citizen’s duty and understand that we have more in common as citizens of this great country than the corporations that are raping it. The man or woman next door cares about the welfare of his family more than a tax break for some rich guy’s jet. You care more for the welfare of your family than feeding kids in Africa. I’m not saying that the tax break and feeding African kids are bad, but they don’t come before your family.
Now, forget about all the crap the politicians want you to talk about, and take some time to see how your neighbor is doing. If you have nothing else in common, you do have the welfare of your respective families to worry about, and it is a citizen’s duty to look out for each other.
| Copyright © 2017 by Ed Rogers Bellator Senex (“Old Warrior”) is a penname of contributing editor Ed Rogers. |
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