What's Your Label?

Written by: Gary J Verdes on Nov 22, 2007 3:38 PM EST

For as long as I've been old enough to remember I have always been interested in politics. If there was just one thing I never liked and would like to see stopped is the labeling of people involved in politics. Liberal, conservative, right wing, left wing, reactionary, obstructionists, neoliberals, neoconservatives, doves, hawks, so is all this name-calling good for our political system?

William McGowan from Scholastic Update said “As much as it might make for colorful verbal combat, the labeling game tends to make compromise between the two political parties difficult. It also tends to feed cynicism about government in general, making it appear as if public officials are more interested in pulling off witty one-liners than in addressing the national interest”. So what is your label? What do you want to be defined as?

For myself I went from the Democratic Party, to the Republican Party, back to the Democratic Party, and finally to an Independent I guess I could fit into all the labels mentioned. So where do we go from here?

Whatever label you see yourself as we all need to find common ground to get our government working for all the people. The time has come to put the labels aside and to move forward. Our country has many problems to solve and our Representatives can’t agree on anything, we are at a standstill. The time is short if we are to move our country into the future. The decisions made now will determine our children's and grandchildren’s futures. What kind of country will they find themselves living in? If we don’t start changing the way our government operates, their future is looking dim. The time has come for all Americans to stand up and come together for the good of our country.

No Labels

One Country / One People / All Americans

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