Change Coming

We're getting another chance at summer here. Days in the 70's and nights in the 50's. I'll take it -Thank You!
I'm eating cherry tomatoes and blueberries from my garden. Until I grew them I had no idea how fabulous tomatoes just picked and warm from the sun could taste!

As fall comes closer though, the elections come closer too.
So OK- I've really tried to avoid this subject -but I just can't. I've been watching presidential campaigns and I've gotta say when I see the recent media coverage of the last couple of weeks and hear comments on the radio -I sometimes fear for this country. Where is the common sense? Where is the informed public that our democracy depends on?
What I've been seeing and hearing is sheep who want an easy answer for things that actually require hard work, dedication, and sometimes even some sacrifice. What I've seen is media that doesn't ask tough questions since real answers don't fit in a sound bite. What I've seen and heard are people who feel entitled to a certain way of life without having necessarily earned it themselves, and who don't really engage in democracy, the foundation of the country. But they do engage in entitlement and blind partisan flag waving. I've seen people who believed the lies told to them for the last 8 years because it was easier and they just wanted to be told what to do so they could sit back and feel better. And these people can Vote! What I'm hearing on radio and reading on blogs and newpaper talk-back pages is scary dumb! Ideas like "so long as I get mine and my taxes don't go up I'll just sit back and go along".
Dim Bush has abused this country so badly and in so many ways that I think some people must just close down and give up on any scale of things beyond their own wallet, like on thinking about whether the government is run well and actually represents them, or whether it's just a playground for sleazy cronyism and profiteering among the powerful. Maybe folks feel too overlooked or underserved to worry about international relations, or about the future of our ecomony, or about trillions of dollars in public debt, or what we can do about environmental change, or if their opinion can make any difference at all. I actually heard a radio guy, a music station-not political talk radio, saying that if you're not at least a millionaire you really don't have a voice anyway so why bother worrying about it!
Oh C'mon! Sitting back and saying "it'll all work out without me anyway" will literally kill the country! Bush's damage to courts and national policies and especially public trust will take a very long time to overcome. The ecomonic damage will be difficult to repair and our childrens children will still be paying on debts Bush generated. But we just can't let things continue to get even worse!
Now I see Bush's boy McCain actually daring to call himself a maverick and adding Palin -who has NO qualifications at all for federal office, let alone potentially the presidency- and I cringe that these tools, these puppets of the rabid religious right and Big Oil and Bush advisors, are actually campaigning to run the country.
Real Change Must Happen! We Need intelligent leadership - two things sadly lacking in the last 8 years. Ghandi said You've got to BE the change you want to see in the world. Not talk about it - BE it. There is only one presidential campaign that can claim to BE the Change. And it isn't the campaign being directed by the same old Bush advisors.

Be the Change.