The title is what King Henery the Eighth supposedly said in front of his knights that lead to the death of Sir Thomas Moore. He didn’t order Moore’s death, he just asked a question of most loyal most loyal followers, and they did the rest. Just as mob bosses and blackmailers ask questions which they don’t answer but the answer screams the questions intent. We are, in the current day being faced with the same kind of question, but the answer isn’t all that obvious.
The answer is all tied up in the overriding question of who are we as Americans. It’s not as easy as which political party do we follow. The real question is what kind if Americans are we and what kind of a people do we want to become. I don’t think this is an idle or unimportant question. We all, through the way we walk through this world and who we associate with, make those decisions. If where we are at any given moment in our lives realize that we aren’t who and where we want to be, we can choose to make changes, some times those changes can be small some times huge.
I’m not going to try to lay out the history of the country, individual actions have pulled our national identity all over the place, but my personal opinion is that in general our history has been progressively to the good. Not necessarily good for everybody at the same time, but at various times we limp along toward a better life.
The difference this time is we may be facing a life changing point in our nations history. The fact is that one of the parties is dominated by person that is happy using the kind of question that a King of England was willing to ask to cause the death of an Archbishop. Currently the questions circle around minor bureaucrats and members of the Judicial, legal and Justice Enforcement persons. There is an ongoing effort to degrade the popular support of the legal system, but why? Why would any political party wish to degrade the trust of the rule of law except to establish the basis where they can operate outside the rule of law without fear of suffering any consequences. Rules for thee but not for me doesn’t sound like a fair system for any one and I for one would not want to live there but I’m only one vote.
The America I want to live in, is not the one I grew up with, oh don’t misunderstand my years on this earth have been for the most time comfortable, no grinding poverty, no insulting racism, no great obstacles. But that hurts me. I want to live in a country that has equal chances to everyone, that can support everyone’s dreams, and that isn’t what I see being offered by a large swath of political candidates.
Brain Dribbles 