Was passage of Health Care in the Senate a symptom of a larger problem?

While the United States is undoubtedly blessed like no other land has ever been –
She is falling horribly short of her potential and failing to fully exploit the blessings that God has granted, and it’s our fault.

While it’s easy to place the blame for the current state of our country on outrageous spending, excessive taxation, government intrusion, and ill advised social and economic policies –

The fact is the blame falls squarely at the feet of our politicians.
While this may seem obvious – a deeper look reveals a truth many Americans are reluctant to accept; that our elected officials are a reflection of our own commitment to the political process that governs our lives - and in recent years that commitment has waned.

As children we are taught that America is a nation of laws. While true we are also a nation of policies, regulations, instructions, rules, guidelines and accepted practices.

And the majority of these standards of behavior and governance that allow our nation to function without anarchy are created, implemented and managed by politicians that work for us and in theory represent the will of the majority or so it was intended.
Whether at a national, state, or local level our daily activities are managed by laws and policy created by people we elect. The problem however is that very often the people doing the governing are not qualified to do so. And that is our fault.

Over the past few decades American’s have become enamored with the toys and the distractions of success and affluence.

Even the poorest of American families own a car, cell phones, and large television sets behind which they can sit and look out into a world they once participated in.
Through these distractions and illusion of contentment many American’s have lost interest in the process under which we must all live.

The result is we continue to elect politicians not for their knowledge of the issues but rather on the perception they create of how they will govern.
And we do so because unlike generations before us we have become complacent with the political process that is the hallmark of America.

And it was political complacency that preceded the end of other great nations throughout history.