[Love2Swim]

Originally Posted by Boomer

No. No. No. There you go. (sigh)

Yes. I was a secondary ed public school teacher for a long time, 35 years. Had I not been wired like I am to see people as individuals and to care about them and treat them fairly, I would have been terrible at my job. —Well, I wasn't.

You do not know the whole picture of who I am. I never implied that big business was the devil incarnate. My father worked for big business, as did Mr. Boomer. I also invest in stocks. To make an assumption just because I was a teacher is broad brush painting. (sigh, double sigh)

Like I keep saying, some of the answers to our problems are somewhere in the middle with compromise and discussion. But as long as we parrot and spew without thinking through, the future of our nation is at risk.

So much does not make sense to me. Children ripped from their parents, caged, and nobody seems to notice. Too many seem to feel because those little kids are a different color, they are invisible and do not count.

As parents and educators we know how important those first 5 years of life are. Children need nurturing and love for development. What in the hell are we thinking — hell is the operative word there.

How can we love and protect and teach and nurture our own and dehumanize those children. I cannot make that compute. Maybe you know. As a pre-school teacher, you surely well understand the needs of little ones. I am not attacking you. I truly would like to hear the justification for destroying the lives of innocent, defenseless children.

I asked a far right wing person I know, who adores his children and grandchildren, what he thought about those neglected children, imprisoned by hatred and getting more behind and lost every day. He told me that he had heard nothing about it. He listens to and watches only the extreme right wing media which has changed him. I once respected him. He is now full of venom. (I am so glad he lives far away from us now.) And yet, he sits in a pew every Sunday and convinces himself he is a pillar of Christianity. WWJD, huh?

We have become tribal and/or caught in the mindset of an “Us vs. Them” team sport. Ugly stuff.

(Oh well, that was only the beginning of a tangent about all the things going on around me that I just don’t get. Guess I went rather off topic but it is all connected as we choose who to admire and respect. I assume this post will be deleted. Actually, I could say a whole lot more, but why bother.)

I'm so glad your post was not deleted. Many of us feel the same as you do, and it is sad if people don't realize what is going on. What is sadder still, is those who do see what is happening who turn a blind eye and still call themselves a Christian.