Soon I will be going to visit my mother, and I will be gone for a few days. I wrote this while thinking about our government today, and I thought I would share.

To be completely honest, there isn’t a whole lot to say. I’m an average United States citizen who wants to see the United States become the country it was designed to be.
I am big on making sure that the mistakes of the past aren’t repeated, but I also want to see cautionary steps forward. I think that a controlled, clear and concise vision of the future, along with a desire to see everyone pushed beyond their comfort zones, will further the effort of making everyone better.
It was once said by someone that you only become better by helping to make those around you better than what they were. I think that principle, above all others, is what our country was built upon when George Washington reluctantly took office for the first time back in 1789.
I think it was those ideas that also pushed him to step down after his second term, thereby creating the government we have today. I would like to see The United States return to it’s roots.
I’ve recently started reading The Audacity of Hope, and I think there are a lot of good things that could come out of a change in politics. These political changes won’t be easy because they upset the status quo we have now.
It is my hope that instead of bringing down the walls we’ve so fervently erected between each other, that someone will begin to reach out and tear those walls down.
Obama’s book talks about polarization of the parties. Either you’re for something, or you’re against it, and you can’t get support for your idea if you have a conflicting idea with someone else.
Those differences of ideas were the very things that our government was created on. Our Forefathers understood that in order to grow and prosper, you needed diverse ideas and differences of opinions. A free and open marketplace for ideas, if you will.
They were the rock on which our government was built, and until Post World War Two, it was the unshakable foundation that our country was built upon.
In recent years we’ve moved away from that foundation. We can see the edges of our beloved constitution begin to fray as we continue to shift into a more polarized world, where you’re either wrong or right, and there is no middle ground.
I want to see the United States of America return to it’s foundation, where it belongs. In loving and embracing the difference of ideas that every individual brings to the table. In understanding that our greatest strength lies not in our similarities, but in our differences. In knowing that if someone stumbles, there is someone else there to help pick them back up.
Our country’s moto is E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one.
Out of many different races, there is one country.
Out of many different ideas, there is a course of action.
Out of many different weaknesses, there is strength and unity.
We would all do well to remember that.