We learn, at the last, to look at our bothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in a common effort. We learn to share only a common fear – only a common desire to retreat from each other – only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force… For all this there are no final answers… But we can perhaps remember – even if only for a time – that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short movement of life, that they seek – as we do – nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.
-Bobby Kennedy, the night after MLK was murdered

We are finding ourselves, as United States citizens, at the point of perhaps the most important domestic policy conversation our nation has ever seen.

And we are losing our collective minds.

There is anger and rage on both sides. There is name-calling and embellishment on both sides. There is pettiness and confusion on both sides.

It seems that the Constitution has been ignored and degraded to such an extent that now, in this pivotal hour of American discussion, that the right to redress our grievances, whether calm or irate, but always peaceful, has been called into question.

What citizens need to be calling for is simplicity of the eventual bill that will go to the floors of Congress for a vote. And citizens need to demand a slow and methodical process in which it will be passed, perhaps in a step-by-step measure rather than bulk legislation. This issue is too important and complex not to do so.

Not only Congress but the American people need to be given a chance to understand, then either support or oppose the legislation that could change their lives to a great extent.
The right of organizing, as opposed to miraculously having hundreds of like-minded citizens show up at once, is now a politically incorrect.

What we cannot forget, is whether or not you believe the other side is confused or ignorant, we are all Americans. The Representatives and Senators of these Americans need to, for once, take their jobs deathly serious. And they cannot let the tyranny of the majority rein, whatever in the end, the majority may be.

The compromise is one in which every citizen in this country has an opportunity to receive adequate healthcare. I emphasize the term, opportunity.

We cannot pretend that we already live in a utopian society, or that we ever will.
And so, it is time to step up for your fellow man, rather than asking your government to do so. We need to bind together in the youth of this nation

The last thing we need in this country is more violence, particularly over the issue of health. I would just ask those that feel passionately about this issue to understand that you have to speak your own mind and then allow the process to play out. But make sure that you are heard. The more that are heard and the more complex the conversation becomes and the more understanding that is forced, the closer we come to the solution.

And finally, if we as a nation could let go of our interests in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, North and South Korea, Germany, Japan and countless other nations in which our troops reside…then health care for a broader percentage of the population funded by Federal dollars as a transition could be possible.

But again, we don’t live in a utopian world yet, and we must choose how our dollars our spent. May we choose wisely.