To the Editor:
I could spend a few seconds of thought on the lies spoken by the president and met with thunderous applause by the GOP members of Congress yet you know those seconds are spent. I shall use the remaining seconds focused on the unifying hope of a better America as spoken by Joe Kennedy III. We choose both for America is not a zero sum game.
I could stretch my reply out to 500 words but why? Why use $10 words when 2 cents is all you need. When you seek to do what is right by the weakest among you, you will always do what is right for everyone. When you act from a love that was born in being your brother’s keeper, you will do what is right for even yourself. GOP hasn’t been acting from love for several decades. Somewhere in the 60s the GOP started to slip. I am sure I could pinpoint it but that is one for the historians. At this moment in the USA I focus on the words of Joe Kennedy III who says we choose both.
The USA, like Mississippi, is filled with wealth. We’ve a wealth that is missed in the zero sum games played by the corporations pillaging our treasury. The corporate controlled media fills the public with baseless fears to the point we carry a gun to get cup of coffee at Starbucks. A people living in fear will allow a foreign nation to run our elections. Fearful people will seek to imprison their neighbors for not clapping for the words of a person elected to public office by the public. Joe Kennedy III encouraged Americans to step from the fear and to choose both.
Choosing both means we can educate our children without killing our grandparents. It means we are one nation no matter which coast or if no coast is seen from our front door. We are a nation capable of putting a man on the moon and of allowing a family to purchase diabetic medication for their son without facing bankruptcy. Living freely in love we choose the both of raising the wages for the working person as we implement proper taxation on the corporations benefiting from a compliant public. Freely we choose both when we rise to save our fields, streams, and the abundant waves of grain from the toxic byproducts of manufacturing by enforcing EPA regulations.
Life is not a zero sum game when you choose to walk in love. There is more to life than $1.50 a week extra in a paycheck. It is time we shed the fear to choose both. Choosing both is living fully in love.
Sue Harmon
Biloxi, MS
