Understanding politics is a losing proposition. The more you engage, perhaps the more disenchanted you become. I am a conservative. I am a Republican. Does that make me a conservative Republican? Perhaps. The thought of being a Republican these days is dangerous. We are in the midst of a huge recession, potential transition of healthcare, and an entire shift in the paradigm of the American way of life.
As I just finish watching the movie, The Edge, (you know, the one where Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, and the black guy from Lost are stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash.) The last line of the movie shows Anthony Hopkins among many reporters asking him how he made it out. One reporter asks, "How did all of your friends die?". Hopkins character, Charles, responds with the shed of a tear and visibly shaken, "they died saving my life."
Is this how we see the current Republican Party? Did our forefathers of the conservative political movement die saving our lives? Or are we dying now to save the lives of our way of life?
Will we be left to challenge a new vision for our country? A vision that we do not agree with. A vision that rocks the American dream to its core.
Who will be the new Republican Party?
We are at the edge. We have just survived a plane crash. A conservative, a liberal, and a black man are fighting through the forrest to survive against all the elements. The conservative has tremendous survival skills and uses logic and knowledge to help save the liberal who is mad with emotion and sentimentality, who ultimately tries to kill the conservative because of pride and jealousy, and the black man cuts his leg and gets eaten by a bear early in the movie. This leaves only the conservative and liberal to continue to work things out.
It is funny how The Edge represents our political times!
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