ilBLOGical tidBITs

I know my voice has been absent from the blogosphere recently, but as I watch, listen and read what passes for news with today’s media, the same thought keeps going around and around in my mind: Where’s the change?

The president is still battling congress and the opposing party over any and everything.

We are still embroiled in two conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan with no clear end in sight, as the new president and his advisors mull over the political ramifications of their options in the face of what military leaders have said all along — and people continue to die.

The rich are still getting rich and the rest of us are still holding on.

Small businesses continue to fold, as the price of gas fluctuates depending on whether or not the government is paying attention; and the media shift between instilling fear and promoting ignorance in a public that is either to numb to care or too dumb to know better.

Of course, I am not the first to make these observations, but I found myself overwhelmed by the lack of progress or real change on any front. Raging against a system that has atrophied into a political glacier only made me feel more helpless.

I came to the conclusion that perhaps instead of railing against what is NOT happening; I could open discussions about what we could do to turn things around. I do not pretend to know precisely how to fix our governments, but perhaps talking about it will generate ideas that may.