we're still better than Alberto Gonzales, George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the immoral hedonists of this Administration. We can look in the mirror each morning and, aside from the usual disgust about receding hairlines and aging, do not try to pretend we're something that we're not. We acknowledge that our looks are largely the result of our environment and the stressful life most Americans are forced to endure in this Country. We don't have health insurance, job security, a 401k or retirement pension, and try to live within our ever shrinking means.
When we die, at least we won't be atoning to God or the Universe for murder, bearing false witness, or coveting. We won't have to explain how perpetrating genocide against millions of innocent citizens, an ethnic cleansing if you will, somehow was in furtherance of the eternal plan. We won't have to justify the price of oil in terms of human lives and suffering. We wont have to explain why we were storing up treasure on Earth because we weren't.
We can look in the mirror and know that we never justified destroying families for the sake of some perverted and obscure global mission. We could never stand by and watch human suffering without compassion or responding when we could. We did not bear false witness against leaders and their entire populations for the sake of wealth. We may be poor but we are not false prophets misleading others. What little we came by, we came by honestly without hurting others.
Among the elite and upper casts of society, especially those within this Administration, we would be described as losers. How could anyone but losers do so badly when we are the land of democracy and opportunity? We also now have to deal with feelings of inadequacy as we have failed to effect any meaningful changes in our government. Petitions, blogs, telephone calls, and polls seem to fall on deaf ears in Washington while the genocide and inequity continue mercilessly.
As we look around, we realize that we're not alone. We are true American citizens of the people, by the people, and for the people. We heal the sick, grow food for the world, educate our children, run into burning buildings to save lives often at the cost of our own, build homes and homeless shelters, arrest dangerous people who threaten innocent lives often at the cost of our own, care for the elderly, provide entertainment, contribute to charities to end diseases and hunger around the world, hunger for righteousness and justice, look for alternative energy sources to save our planet, crowd ballparks to enjoy our national pastime, expand our culture to enrich our lives, love music, and fight our corrupt government every step of the way.
We Americans are above this Administration and see in our reflections all that is truly meaningful in society, life, and humanity and can only wonder what they see. We hope someday to rise above their reflections so that the World may see who we truly are.