People say the political realm is ultimately about the money and power and it would seem those two forces have played a large role in how our nation has made its decisions in this period of history. But not until this election, when we elect the people we have, has it been so clear that our core system of unifying national values has come unraveled.  We have turned so much of the leadership in our once ‘public’ government over to a small wealthy private sector to tell us what we need to do with not only our lives and resources, but our bodies and  souls.  The body and soul though do not conform to the reaches of government and politics.  Human kind intuitively resists  interference in those responsibilities both from both private or public sectors.  Body and soul interference is a hard often blood soaked caution as old as our species.  In this decade we have crossed a critical line and we need to cross back quickly.  

As in the previous post where we discussed the tyranny of need, we have been told that we ‘need’ a mass deportation of immigrants, even though such an operation would cause unimaginable suffering to both the immigrant’s families; men women, children, babies, aunts  uncles and grandparents not to mention our working economy. Outside the insular wealth of the ruling few every citizen, natural, naturalized, documented or not will suffer directly from the implementation of mass deportation. Only the most cold bureaucratic of minds could reduce this catastrophe of a proposal to a feasible operation.  This and other attacks on health care and care of the vulnerable of our society must be resisted while we recompose our nation’s center with a covenant of good, aspirational as it will be.  

Politics can only address the support of a nation’s sense of good but cannot be the source of that sense of good.  We have misplaced the investments of our souls when we rely on the political realm to enforce our own conscience.  The source of good is in our hearts, families, spirituality, and local interpersonal communities.  And so call it prayer, call it meditation, contemplation, call it worship, call it what your faith or secular tradition calls it, but don’t call it quits.  We have four years to build a foundation of good so that in the next election cycle we might just talk about national policy and its rational implementation. Both policy and implementation must be the servants of the true national covenant of good.  Should that happen the world just might respect our leadership again if only cautiously with justified trepidation.