Capitalism is competition. America is capitalism, and America is competition. And the level of competition keeps going up, decade after decade, as the economy grows, technology advances, and opportunity beckons. You see it all the time. Forty years ago, when I was in high school, the traffic light would turn green, and my classmates would race to get off the starting line ahead of the classmate in the other lane. I could swear the same people behave the same way, forty years later.
Maybe our competitive spirit has something to do with our angry aggressive political rhetoric.
Of course, its nothing new. In George Washington's day American politicians were calling each other adulterers, drunks, miscreants. Only they did it indirectly, using surrogate sources.
Now we just do it straight up, and the names include modern versions such as "dork", and "moron"...
When my friends email me to argue with me I wish they would use a slightly smaller, lighter font.
I wish President Obama would lower his voice just a bit, and accuse the Republicans of wanting to do something a bit less harmful than "cripple" the country...
I certainly wish the conservatives wouldn't call Obama a traitor, and accuse him of not being an American citizen...
If we could all just maybe tone it down a tad, and keep making our points clearly, but just a little bit less...let's see now...LOUDLY!
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