POWER TO THE PEOPLE, BABY

One more political comment.  When I was young it was our goal to reject the government for a much better way of managing our affairs...ourselves.  Love, peace, and understanding were the rallying cries and rejection of “the man” (government) was a prerequisite.  It was such a great premise, the people governing themselves, caring for one another, taking care of the earth but there was one fatal flaw, an abandonment of the established religious morality for individual situational ethics or as we yelled it, “FREEDOM MAN!”  Which brings us to the sorrowful situation of today.  Many of those same freedom seekers of my youth have now turned to government as their new moral compass and savior while a few were won over by The Original Hippy who not only was love but showed us the way to love and peace and understanding.  Politics, like all other human forms of people management, leads to one thing, a power struggle where everything and anything goes as a means to get the power which quickly moves from people management to people control.  Control is the opposite of serve which is the true role of any good government and is the central theme of Christ, “love others as yourself.”  This form of self-governance returns the power to the people to choose to love and serve one another, take care of the planet, help the needy, and seeing in Jesus, not politics, the true example of how we are to live together which aligns perfectly with another saying we use to yell, “POWER TO THE PEOPLE, BABY!”