The fight... can it be fair?

So, back in the day (as modern tales begin), a rowdy bunch of upstarts fresh from the throes of war met together in a not so climate controlled room during the hottest months in Pennsylvania's year to put together a set of guidelines for this baby nation called the United States. These servant leaders, hot-tempered representatives carried the frustration of having just finished one war only to commit themselves to a war of words so that their posterity (AKA: we, the people) could live better than they.
Seven articles divided into 24 sections each word painstakingly chosen to be sure that each administration following would have equally heated debates and some semblance of order in which to conduct them... as demonstrated by the Bill of Rights and the other 17 amendments!
Our founders gave us the Constitution! This document tells us how to fight fair because they knew we would be fighting. HOW did they know? Because THEY were fighting! They fought to loose the chain of England's government, then turned around to fight with each other over which has more authority: nation or state! And they fought about how to fight... fair!
It's a little bit like a family business that has been handed down through generations, but better because the Constitution is its own never-ending story provided that WE, the people, get a cranial-rectal retraction, quickly (the current state of inversion presents inevitable suffocation).
But I digress... I know that we have assets and liabilities; we are great at both standing united and tearing each other to shreds.
During these summer months in 2016, I ask each who takes in these words to find a climate controlled space to think about what we face when it is time to vote for  legislation and legislators. Fighting is inevitable; let's be more careful to fight fair especially when the fight is inward.

On Violence

Violence breeds violence as the story goes. All things considered (or at least set out to fill the air as dirty laundry often does) Americans find ourselves at yet another crossroads. We love our Liberty, but how do we stop the shooter who is taking aim at the LGBT community? We polish up our justice badges as another judge calls that history of domestic abuse ending in murder "self-defense".  Even our sibling communities are rioting over a futbol game in Marseille. Has it anything to do with the big 7 (age, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or the  Physical/mental/emotional differences based on the aforementioned 6)? Probably. So now the question must be asked, "How can we become more productive and comfortable around one another?

DAMN, that's a GREAT question!

The answer is (from the observation deck, with my dog and my big mug of ice water): each one of us practice courtesy, dignity, and respect with full capacity and valor (BTW, this stuff is all free: it generates inside each of us in limitless abundance; the more we give the more we have to replace it)!

Shall we give it a whirl?