Forced division is keeping us separated for what the common good’ should be

Over the past decades words of division have taken greater, influential, control of the air waves.

Segments of the people, unsatisfied with their influential position in the Country increasingly isolate themselves licking their precious wounds and spending considerable time and resources plotting compensation, or at the least advertising their minority views.

My understanding is that this present entrenching controversial attitude was not what brought the country together in the first place. As a fledgling Democracy our union did allow the opportunity for diversity to be a fundamental part of our make up. The founding fathers and mothers did give us some tools to rally around for those who cherished the idea of a strong and unified country but they also left, unconsidered, discrepancies in the hope that future generations would have the maturity to improve upon those tools in the common interest of Canada and its people.

It’s a tough job for those politicians that believe in the common good of the country and wish to see fair and mutual prosperity across this broad, diverse, nation. That pervasive view that was a common theme back in 1867 is now in danger of collapse.

Politically powerful special interest, with voting blocks and or influential money have continuously eroded the original dream of confederation with more selfish, isolated, demands and expectations. As a result, we as a country are becoming more separated, unresponsive to the glaring, supposed, inequalities that the power of special interests has intentionally created and lavishly displays.

The compromised political mouth pieces talk of growth when the greatest growth at the soup kitchens and homeless shelters is the line ups, increasingly peopled by those that can no longer even dream of owning a house or even affording basic accommodations.

Health care line ups are growing as well as the line ups for affordable education.

The depth of the division between the haves and have nots increases as growing numbers of the middle class fall through the cracks and end up at the food banks they once mercifully supported. Those unfortunates are now rubbing shoulders with the growing destitution of fellow formally productive people whose major stumbling block was trying to believe and participate in some narrow minded, manufactured, definition of growth as being purely economic.

This dog-eat-dog approach of international economics and our local political spectrum no longer allows for appreciation of activities that promote the common good of the people and or for the health of the democracy.

And as a result, both are suffering. Not to the detriment of high finance but to the detriment of the common good for people, the environment and life in general.