WomensApproach

We are young and we want change.  However, I did not think that this meant that we abandoned our abilities to think and reason in order to join a fevered mob that called for change and, in doing so, perhaps the assassination of the freedoms and ideals we hold so dearly as American citizens.

We are young and we want change.  Does this mean that our generation values trips to the mall, shiny cars, and upscale houses so much that we would hand over the power of the economy to one man who promises so much?  Do we value our freedom to earn as much as we are willing to work for so little that we are willing to disperse it among those unwilling to get off the living room couch?  Since when has America embraced the ideals of Karl Mark and Joseph Stalin?  Since when has American blood meant so little that we turn our backs on the reason it was spilt?

We are young and we want change.  Are we willing then, to undermine the value of a college education?  Does your degree and labor to receive a higher education mean so little to you that you are willing to demean your efforts to that of receiving a high school diploma?  Up until now, higher education was a choice, not a didactic soup kitchen for the masses.  You worked for it, you struggled for it; and the effort involved made you a better person and proud of placing that piece of paper on the wall.

We are young and we want change.  At what age then do we stop letting our mother choose our doctor and allow the government to do it instead?  Are we so unable to manage our personal finances that we would hand over access to our personal medical records to the government?  Since when did we want our dentist records, health exams, and gender-related checkups on file in the White House?

We are young and we want change.  Are we so naive that we are able to ignore involvement in and support from questionable individuals and organizations?  Is our judgment so clouded that we have lost the ability to spot a blatant lie?  Have we exchanged logic for the sounds of a smooth voice, although it evades direct questions?  Are we so immature that we feel no need to hold a political leader accountable to the people?  Did we get so used to our mother cleaning up after us that we prefer our government to do the same?

Have we forgotten that we are a “government of the people, by the people, for the people?”  Our government is responsible to US, the people; and, though we are young, I hope we have not forgotten that.  Our government was never intended to take charge of the people; the American people are to take charge of the government.  The government is not to regulate the people; the people are to regulate the government.

 Are we so young and immature that we are willing to hand over our rights and the rights of future generations to a man that possesses the ideals and political judgment of a college freshman because we want change?  How quick were we to ignore that one vice presidential candidate described the duties of an American VP to be equivalent to those of a sidekick (just a hint, it wasn’t the new girl on the block)?

 We are young and we want change; but, do we possess enough intelligence to know what we want changed?  Do we respect ourselves as upcoming stewards of our country to take responsibility for it? 

 Do we want change bad enough that we will turn a blind eye to the cost it demands?  I may be young; but, I’m not stupid and I hope my generation isn’t either.  I want an America to give to my kids.

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