I Find It Hard To Believe

North Miami Beach, FL June 6, 2001 Aaron H.
Schectman

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Essays on issues, ideas and reflections on the times. Published now and
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I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE

I find it hard to believe that we, as a people, cannot see our own
reflections in the mirror of foreign opinion. By this I mean that we say
nonsense words and reverse ourselves and put our feet in our mouths all the
time and care less and do it over and over. Observers all over the world see
it but do we care?

The party in power is a problem for both Republicans and Democrats.
Conservatives control the Executive and the Judiciary. The Congress is
almost evenly divided but the Senate is now narrowly in the hands of the
Democrats - not the Liberals of whom both parties seem to be afraid. This is
how the American government is being governed. The Executive is
anti-government, anti-Washington, and anti-anything Liberal. The Congress is
in a classic position to be frozen by deadlock, conflicting goals, inability
to compromise and the know-nothing response of filibuster.

I find it hard to believe that sending the CIA Director to Israel will
resolve the dispute between Jews and Muslims.

I find it hard to believe that exposure of the FBI manipulation of the
McVeigh documents will prevent his execution on the 11th of June.

I find it hard to believe, after the most thoroughgoing examination of the
last election mishaps in Florida, that a report of minority and elderly
voters not being counted is attacked by Governor Jeb Bush for telling it as
it is.

I find it hard to believe that Royals are still in power on the other side
of the globe and they are being assassinated.

I find it hard to believe that the first decade of the 21st Century is no
different from the last decade of the 20th - except then we were rich.
Carol's Evaluation: 9.5 out of 10.