state of the nationals

if you missed the state of the union address, you missed not a whole lot.  at least, not compared to last years address.  i am purposely not capitalizing this post out of sheer laziness, of which is a tribute to the non action taken by congress over the last year.  you may have missed that i am a contributor at a community blog...  for my latest post, click here.  there are several things that should probably be addressed in politics.  however, i will re-watch the speech before i give all of my commentary about it.  there are just a few things that need to be spoken of now.  

1. just like the major league baseball team the nationals, washington politics are broken.  why do i say this?  clearly the agenda and promises that the president gave to us eight years ago and even four years ago - have not come true.  now this may be because not often do the promises ever come true... but, i think it is because we cannot come together as a group of people that have not only divided interests, but selfish interest, earmarked interest, and so much more.  in our church we are working on  coming together as a community to impact and change not only our own lives, but the very community and world around us.  what we realized, i would potentially like to take to a national level - we don't make change or affect our world unless we come together in what the scripture calls koinonia.  koinonia means literally, 'fellowship' but it it much deeper and richer than that.  it is translated in other places as sharing, partnership, and communion, but implied in other places throughout rabbinic literature as coming together, common goals, for the good of all, marriage relationship and others.  is it possible to actually come together like this as a body of people on the national level?

2. what is it that makes is two party?  the categories for democrat and republican no longer work for a new generation of people who realize that the polarization of the parties only lead to further breakdown of politics in general.  will we add a party to make it a three party system?  can we overcome labels and party agendas to the betterment of everyone.  did you see that majority of the time only half of the chamber where the speech was held stood to applaud?  it was the republican side in case you couldn't figure that out.  still, several people on both sides stood on several issues.  we all stand as americans... can we not do that in congress?

much more to come.