Does doing the Right Thing for America Require a rebublican or a democrate?

Having being born during the 1940's allows me a view shared by many of our senior citizens today, many of whom fought in the many wars we were asked to. I can recall a few years between the Korean conflict and the involvement in Viet Nam. I suppose those years were the easiest to experience, America was a world power, we were innovative, we experienced discovery and science technology that put us in space and on the moon. Our manufacturing was next to none, and we lead the world in lifestyle and freedoms. We saw the emergence of unions who fought for workers rights and a fair wage, supported by for the most part the Democratic party, we witnessed booms in steel and automobile middle class America, it was our way out of poverty and off the farm and not so dependent on the whims of nature and Government programs controlling commerce. A Democrat would be in office and the middle class would prosper for a while and the pendulum would swing and we would not do so well under the Republicians. And the the meltdown, It got increasingly harder to tell the difference as politicians became career choices and the lines of distinction blurred like our income tax structure it was impossible to differentiate and draw any clear conclusions as to who was what.

Then the meltdown, America was viewed as an enemy by some a friend by some, we backed the Shah, and then we didn't we backed the Taliban, and then we didn't, we backed Iraq, and then we didn't, we sat on the edge in every corner of the world judged by these people we had elected and had no real clear view of the nature of their policy, sure they would say we are for this or that, and we would discover Iran-Contra, Watergate, Lt. scapegoat Cally, Oliver North Richard Nixon, and on and on. We could point fingers in all directions, but the one constant we could count on was the elected officials who we sent to Washington were using the system to perpetuate their own agendas. Squabbles would erupt and one side or the other would give ground, but the same people would always remain, guarded by their Golden Umbrella. While America worked harder as jobs disappeared overseas, both parents would join the ranks of the working to keep up with the ever increasing cost of living, as we supported a war here a war there, there seemed no end. While we were policing the world, we lost our own security at our borders because no one cared if the Mexicans came to America because they would take the job the middle class didn't want. So we left our guard down, by some opinions, and woke up one day to discover that not only had our security been breached we had seen an influx supported by NAFTA talks and bad decision making.

And then came George Bush and Cheney, election anomalies and different agendas seemed to emerge, secret deals, eight years of embarrassment to America, and finally....9-11... shocking as it was what became an excuse to began a war was in itself of a suspicious nature, planes crashing where we saw no plane, pentagon (regarded as one of the most protected buildings in the world) attacked and no positive visible evidence, and finally the 9/11 Commission, what a joke. again career politicians acting as puppets might with a rubber stamp. As a veteran I was trained as a demolition expert and I am well aware of the likelihood of the towers being destroyed as they described. At every election we were beaten with the word "Change" they all used it Republications and Democrats alike until today, the sound of it releases hormones that taste like sulphur and smell of burnt rubber. Why we waste our time trying to decide if this one is a left wing, Hippocrates or a yellow belly, warmongering thingamawho, when knowing the enemy's name has little to do with the actual battle.
The came the bailouts, oh yeah, the same ones,act up on camera, but do the bidding legislative branch of Government. I watched my house I had worked and paid for while raising three kids, a place I had improved, remodeled up-coded devalued by 33%. To some the American dream became a nightmare, job loss, home loss, retirement no longer an option.
Like Rev. Martin L. King I have a dream, unlike his dream of better feeding and watering grounds for a single segment of society, I dream that America will wake up and shed the distracting fixation with party and party affiliation and realize that America really has only only one party, its the same one that Thomas Jefferson spoke of, the same one that Samuel Adams spoke of and the same one that Abe Linchon spoke of, one that is mindful of our God, respect the will of the people and act for the good of the Nation and work for peace and tranquillity for all, for all Americans the pursuit of happiness should be our birth right.