It is no surprise that our nation’s attention is now riveted on downtown Philadelphia.
Our national leadership is hanging in the balance as Americans wonder about what those 140,000 straggling Philly vote-counts will decide for the state of Pennsylvania and our United States of America.
It’s no surprise that our big question revolves around what happens in that big city.
After all, our nation’s gravest problem is in our major cities.
What, pray tell, might that grave problem be?
~ Police disregard for the Constitutional rights of poor people and minorities.
~ Governmental separation of men and children from their families, whether those families are in inner cities or the outer regions of our immigration-fed melting pot.
~ Police brutality.
What? You don’t believe me?
How else could a phone video change the course of a nation? Something is out of whack.
How else could a botched-up murderous execution of a no-knock arrest warrant suddenly change the focus of our national attention?
Read between the tweets, folks.
We’ve got big problems with law enforcement in our cities. We need reform. Police Reform.
That “Defund Police” term that rolled into our public awareness a few months ago—it was an unfortunate nomenclature, because it gave Republicans and other law-respecting citizens an excuse to deny and reject our dire need for police reform.
We need to fix this.
That’s why American attention is riveted on Philadelphia right now. We need to fix this—and not by throwing unidentifiable, masked, assault-weapon-toting unauthorized militia at the problem.
We need real cops— Cops who are trained to keep the peace, not destroy it.
That’s why our electoral eyes are riveted on Philadelphia right now.
That’s why our attention is redirected to the city of brotherly love, the city of highest esteem in Jesus’ final statement to his churches that were being founded in his wake, and are still being founded, in his name. Pardon my risky language, but I am a Christian.
You’re not? No problem for me. Go in peace. My brother Peter advised me to: as far as possible, be at peace with all men.
Anyway, back to my Philly litany . . .
That’s why our electoral eyes are riveted on Philadelphia right now—the city that brought forth our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, pre-ambled with these words:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility . . .
. . . even though we’re a little cracked up right now.
You gotta love 'em, those voters in Philly!
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