Our government needs to be fixed

And our government should insist on working to fix things.

But, the problem is ...they often do insist on fixing things that are neither broken, or they have an uncanny flare to make things even worse.

What we need to do is:

• Not change the framework of our Constitution, but preserve it.
• Not target civil people for voicing their opinion, but value valid arguments over mere name-calling.
• Not encourage exaggerated fears, such as Global Warming.

You may be getting tired of me talking about Global Warming, yet I must say, I tired of it long ago when everyone else seemed to be getting on the bandwagon ...so, now it's time for the band to play a more insightful tune.

I believe Global Warming is an excellent example of stated inaccuracies combining with simulated videos of all of New York City under several feet of water.  The fear was so lodged in the brains of so many ...that the then associated fear was easily transmitted to a different term, called Climate Change.

Can any of you proponents of the original group tell me what we should now fear with Climate Change??

The truth is, you don't have to.

Those images of the tides washing up on shore ...washed the brain, or brainwashed to the point where no one needs to explain the fear.  They've embraced it ...without definition.

I guess, if we were born yesterday, we could fear the seasons.  If we do ever reach summer this year, we are doomed because of a forecast fall.  And in truth, I sometimes wonder after that, where the flakes come from.

Yes, even in most areas of Michigan the snow is gone, but I still hear reports nationally of people calling the emergency number --911, reporting they ordered pizza and got the wrong ingredients. And another called the number asking where they could find some 'pot'. Maybe we can attribute that to Climate Change ...and sometimes I wonder if we can weather much more of that sort of stuff.

Speaking of the climate of our attitudes, I know that slavery was not the only reason why we fought the Civil War, but it was the most legitimate reason as I see it.  Yet, a good law doesn't readily get accepted by all ...and often the war goes on in the minds of stubborn people who refuse to free it from within themselves.

And women's suffrage was to grant each woman her right to vote ...yet, we blindly stand to replace it with an age of suffering, all in the name of women's rights.

What we read about or hear on the news of what's happening in Nigeria, has been happening for a long time in many other nations ...and the horror of it should never be lessened by any lax media coverage of it.

A nation that promotes abortion, like ours, somehow finds it difficult to argue women's rights globally ...when the honor and dignity of all life is compromised daily by the thousands.

To stand for the rights and dignity of anyone ...we must stand for all.  

Does this mean we should compromise one right for another, and throw out all principles and standards that make for better society??

Of course, there is much difference in opinion concerning what makes better society.

Would we want to return to men exercising the practice of marrying  several women ...and would we also throw out any standard for the expected age of those women ---or girls??