You would think that extremism occurs and festers in faraway places, like the middle east, unfortunately, it’s happening right here, in the United States. Frustration have reached dangerous levels, regardless of which political party you belong to. News of the shooting in Virginia today is alarming, and everyone should give pause, we have to stop the insanity before it’s too late.
I don’t believe in democrats or republicans, neither is working for the peoples’ interest, and eventhough I would support one of them, I never really felt that I belonged. I may agree with one side on some issues, and the other on other issues. Many people feel the same way, unfortunately, we end up siding with one political party against the other, we feel we have no other options.
This is where frustration sets in, people feel hopeless, and extremism starts. We need to start migrating to the middle of the political spectrum, and understand that we have to be tolerant of the other sides’ view, as long as we get those politicians to do their job and actually produce something. We shouldn’t care what political party the politician belongs to, how long they’ve been serving, or how powerful they are, if they don’t produce, let’s throw all the bums out.
Myself, I’m not thinking local politics anymore, and I don’t care how much money a certain politician is bringing to our state, if the overall performance of congress doesn’t improve, I’m voting against them. I hope my fellow Americans would start doing the same, let’s think collective benefits for the whole country, not the state, for the state not the county, for the county not the city.
Finally, violence is violence, if it comes from the left or the right, no excuse for it, and it doesn’t accomplish anything. Let’s elect people who represent the majority, who can move our country towards a prosperous, nonviolent future.