Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

Received a Christmas card, Hallmark card, that has one of the best messages I have ever read on it. The message is “Everytime a hand reaches out to help that is Christmas,
Every Time a person chooses peace, that is Christmas, Every Time we forget our differences and remember the love that connects us, that is Christmas”.
This should not be the message that applies only at Christmas, it is a message that we all need to remember all the time. It and the standby “Do unto others” message should be how we are conducting business. Unfortunately we have all the other baggage to drag along, our fear and distrust, greed and self importance that makes being thoughtful and caring almost impossible for many.
The idea that we are capable of living together and supporting one another seems too good to be true. It works in other countries, why not here? There is the battle to stay well, paying for high priced medical insurance that is picky about what they will or won’t cover. The effort to get an education beyond high school and the debt that is incurred with that. Homelessness and unemployment, drug usage and gun violence. We in the US have all of these and other problems to deal with on a daily basis and the bottom line reason for so much of it is the greed of a few that want to keep the money flowing into their accounts even if it bankrupts everyone else.
Other countries have education opportunities to the age of 26 at no cost. They have health care that does not cost them everything they make. They have very little in the way of homelessness and unemployment. Drug problems are dealt with as an illness more often than as a crime and gun violence is minimal as gun laws are in place that make sense.
What will we become if a Dictator is put in place? Will he deal with our problems in a just and humane way? Drug dealers and users in one country are open game to execution with complete approval of the government. Will the gun laws change to keep us safe or will everyone have a gun so we can shoot however offends us?
We will not have to worry about voting, probably will not have to concern ourselves with vacation or upkeep on national parks. We will most likely have no ability to honor anyone but the master and to keep the money rolling into his coffers. Will he have one of his sons groomed to become his replacement, as they do in North Korea? Have the people that have said they think it is a good idea even thought about the consequences of having a dictator? This move will not be a trip through the tunnel of love that is for certain.