We find ourselves entering another election year with two men close in age with stark differences in their values. And though they are not exactly what most voters want, they do accurately represent their followers.

When Barack Obama said in an acceptance speech back in 2009, “We are not two Americas, we are one America!” he was inaccurate in his assessment at that time, and it is still untrue today.

Though we may be united in the geopolitical sense, our citizens have two diverse visions of what we want for America. One side is content with a nation with unbridled access to firearms, a concept that no other modern nation finds acceptable.

Some believe each American should have health insurance so they can prevent serious health problems that cost 10 times as much when untreated. Others want to ensure that only people who can buy insurance deserve it. They definitely don’t want the Affordable Care Act to survive. They want people to be denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.

The one common denominator of the American citizen today is the acceptance of relegating the cost to solve today’s problems to future generations. Sacrifice is a bad word in America. President Jimmy Carter was the last politician that asked Americans to sacrifice, and it cost him his reelection in 1980. Asking for sacrifices is a no-no!

The differences are the same (sounds like an oxymoron) today as they were in the Civil War era, when our nation was the age of Joe Biden. There is a ying and a yang! A right and a wrong! It’s progress versus holding onto a past that has become obsolete.

A clear choice of candidates are before us this year. We have to do our homework and fact check every political story because foreign actors are participating in “enlightening” us. And we have to choose which America we are!

 

Tom Turner

Augusta

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