Bruce Whealton: Career, Interests and Values

I find in interesting this idea of emulating the Tea Party.  Yes, indeed, progressives do have passionate ideas about what we think is right.  We care about changing things and creating a better country.  We have our own ideas about what is morally and ethically right.  We can certainly get behind certain ideas about the way things ought to be.  Call it morals or ethical beliefs, these things inspire us with a passion to improve our nation.  Sometimes it is quite perplexing to me that there are such radical differences among Americans about these things.

 

We have so many things in common and yet we are so very divided often about what is right and the way things ought to be.  It would be wrong for anyone to think that people like myself do not feel just as passionate about the things that we value… It would be wrong for persons like myself not to speak our conscience.

 

We cannot help but seek what we know is right.  An observer might say that both opposing ideas cannot be right.  However, I do not inform my beliefs based only on my passions… on feelings.  I find reasonable, logical support for all my beliefs and feel with certainty that my beliefs accurately represent what is right.

 

For these reasons, I don’t think that I want to emulate the “Tea Party” per se.  I don’t view them as being led by the brightest, most rational or sane group of folks.  Would our “tea party” also be rascist?  I’m not saying this in any way to reflect on the person who is being seen at the center of this movement – Van Jones.  I have to say I could relate to some things I heard from him… like why do people who claim to be patriots have such problems with our government of the people, for the people and by the people and with American values – the values that shaped how our nation was formed.

 

I just think any good movement in America should be careful about who and what they emulate.  We should avoid what is bad about the Tea Party and focus on rationality, reason, logic, and intelligence in addition to our passions and values.

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