One of my great sadnesses for the last few years, has been to watch how the public has responded to the rhetoric of both parties.  I am convinced that neither party will leave this decade looking at all like what they did entering the decade.  I can only hope that what emerges is better, rather than worse.  And if I'm going to spend my energy on politics, that's were I'd like to send it.

But my sadness is less about the parties per se, as much as it is about the powers we've given them.  Somehow, the thought of needing over a Billion dollars to get elected seems just wrong.  And when I see that the money (both parties) was spent to turn us against each other, I KNOW something's gone wrong.  We've been convinced that we need to depend on parties to maintain our rights.  We've been told the constitution really doesn't matter, unless our pet concerns are threatened...

At the end of he day, we have each other, and perhaps our sense of God.  And despite that,  we continue to attack...