We're All Just Folks

You are not going to change my mind. Chances are, I'm not going to change yours either. So what's the problem? Your belief system has been a life-long work in progress. Some of your core beliefs might coincide with mine. Maybe they won't. God? Or no god? Democrat? Republican? Mayo or Miracle Whip?

With the state of politics today, it's worth it to remember that we all share a basic humanity. That seems to be forgotten in the bombast of talk radio and partisan TV hacks whose views of the world fall along sharply divided lines. Because life is not really like that, most people find themselves painted into ideological corners from which there is no escape. All white or all black, or all wrong or all right, are absolutes that leave little room for common ground. We all know what happens when we get stuck in corners. We get scared. We get angry. That's where all the problems begin, because anger and fear beget hate.

Friends are vastly more important than being the last man standing on some bloody ideological battle ground. It's far better to stand together on common ground.