Where is the Love in the Political Parties?
By Reverend Tom Capo
Preached on 5/10/2015
In Washington and in most state capitols, finger pointing, blaming, yelling, discrediting, and finding fault in the “other” political party is how our government is working, or rather not working. Calling Republicans Nazis and Democrats Communists is not uncommon for political pundits on the left and on the right. Gerrymandering districts and huge amounts of money, with the accompanying political influence, are the way politicians stay in power.
Here is Political Scientist, Paul Enrique C. Casas’ view of today’s political conundrum. Liberals feel change is good. And those on the extreme left want lots of change/change everything. Conservatives want to change slowly and have very little change. And on the extreme right, they want no change or even want some of the changes that has happened reversed. Both Democrats and Republicans who are moderate in their political views want to change some things and leave others alone. At least right now few of those moderates are getting elected or even want to be involved in politics because they believe that the radicals and reactionaries in the two political parties have taken over and are unwilling to compromise.
With the extreme left and right controlling the political parties, it is not surprising that the party who is in the majority acts like the crocodile man who owns fire and refuses to share it. Is it any wonder there is so little love between our politicians and political parties? Where is the rainbow bird to whisk away the fire, to show them how to share that power?
