A house divided

I was thinking today about the Law of Attraction and the state of the world today. It occurred to me that it works on that kind of grand scale as well. Whether it’s the war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on terror, what we focus on is what we draw to ourselves. If we want to win these “wars”, rather than throwing good money after bad in “fighting” these abstracts, these constructs, we must change the focus from the problems to the solutions. This seems to be the biggest problem in politics as well. Everything is us vs. them. Instead of proposing solutions, we point fingers at each other and scream about the problems and their failures and their broken promises and their scandals. If the grass seems greener on the other side of the fence, start watering your own. We are so focused on the other, no matter whom the other is, that we fail to see the beams in our own eyes. Racism is a genuine issue and you know what? Black people can be just as racist as white people. Sometimes more so. So can Hispanics and Asians and Middle Easterners and everyone else in the world. Everything has become so polarized and and so politicized that we can’t even carry on a conversation anymore in a civilized manner on topics of science, the environment, diseases… We don’t even realize that, regardless of who is “we” and who is “they”, “we” are saying the same damn thing “they” are, just about different subjects. A house divided cannot stand. We have to start listening to each other as people, not opponents, and seeing each other as all "us", as neighbors and humans, not as others.