When It Comes to Politics
I'm interested in what you think is working, or what you think would work. I'm interested in your perspectives on what's wrong only as they apply to how we can make it right. I'm not at all interested in your religious stance except to the degree that it influences your approach to the rest of the world, same with your race or gender or any of your many orientations. Those things may (or may not) tell me more about who you are, but do not define whether or not I can agree or work with you. I'm not even interested in your political affiliation unless you let it make it your choices for you. But I am interested. We'll never fix anything standin' around pointin' at the broken parts and doing nothing, and we'll only ruin ourselves by ruining our country and our world, constant destructive criticism and violent uprisings being among the quickest, most effective ways to do that. We can fix most things by giving experts the resources they need to put together effective, efficient plans of action and the support to follow them through. (It will help if we don't define 'expert' as, "Anyone willing enough to toot their own horn louder and more obnoxiously than anyone else's," but, "Someone who knows more about how to make x happen than most people." :D) If the majority of our social structure is sound, we'll be able more easily to absorb and mitigate the issues that come along with the problems we can't fix, or can't fix yet. It is to our advantage to seek out and present solutions. It's entirely counterproductive to merely tell those we expect to do the fixing that they're doin' it wrong, we could do it better, but no thanks, it's not worth the effort.
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