The American Struggle
“On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind—I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I’m made for, the very things for which I was put into this world? Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It’s so pleasurable. Were you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.1
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Humanity is meant tor struggle. Religion may teach us that struggling is a curse. In my experience, there is no such thing as a curse — other than the ones we put on ourselves and keep wanting them to occur. If taught right about history, struggling is what allows us to get the pot of cold at the end of the rainbow.
It takes hard work to achieve because in the natural setting the pendulum is always closer to us. To get anything in life, each one of us must work hard at it. With the attack on our Federal Capitol Building, on January 6, 2021, those people were not struggling to get in and vandalize everyone and thing. A few died as the results. The law officers snuggled in horror as we stared at our television sets watching it all unfold. It is taking no effort for the Republican Party to deny the event never took place.
Voting in every election is a struggle because the voting turnouts are the lowest of the free world. For us to change things and keep our Republic, the American voters must vote no matter the price. The price of Liberty is never cheap. If voters fear of losing their jobs if they wait in long lines to fulfill their Constitutional duties, what makes you think plutocracy would allow you to keep them if they had all the power instead of WE THE PEOPLE? What makes you think a tyrant nation gives fruitful jobs to the citizens of a nation?
If each one of us don't start getting off our butts and do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, then we can all lose our Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. A simple scientific principle — "For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction." The less action we take, the more tyranny will enter our government. Not many Americans understand hard times. They don't realize the true meaning of suffering. If voting does not become a top priority, we all just might experience it.