Political School Daze
While Utah high school students were walking out protesting school shootings and begging politicians to curb the NRA, and admonishing our fearful leaders to curb the second amendment so it makes more sense here in 2018, Mitt Romney was in Logan, Utah lapping up Utah State University Aggie ice cream and lauding himself as a true leader in preparation for a senate then most likely presidential run. The guy wants to be president so bad his teeth hurt ...or maybe it’s the ice cream.
Brain freeze.
Funny ..or not so funny ...according to the local newspaper story entitled “Mitt Mania”, he didn’t say a word about the high school kids protesting just down the street, and around the country, and didn’t mention a word about gun control or any of the other issues surrounding the school shooting crisis in America.
One student hit the nail on the head saying, ‘It’s a shame our politicians will full-on support the NRA, but not give a damn about us students.’
Like many of Romney’s flip-flopping values, his politics on gun control and the NRA blow in the wind depending on how they position him for a high profile “leadership” job.
According to the local Logan press, Romney’s politics du jour are formulating immigration policies to make people feel welcome. He says he’s firm on that. Whatever. He went on to say, rather, flip-flop, about his stance on Donald Trump, that he agrees with a lot of what Trump says, but doesn’t agree with some of it, but will speak up when he doesn’t agree with Trump “calling it like I see it just like I have done in the past.”
Flip-flop, FlimFlam ...same thing, same guy.
I doubt Mitt-light is considering anything that won’t get him into the Utah statehouse and another shot at the presidency.
The mass shooting phenomenon in America is an evaluative study in politics, psychology, sociology, policies and law. It’s anthropology. Critical areas to be focused on are media entertainment and parenting.
Media entertainment is obvious. It’s a textbook course on how to be violent. Movies, music, video games, books, magazines, broadcast news, free speech. Our first amendment right to be violent. Our second amendment right to be violent with guns.
Parenting is just as inculpative to the issue, maybe more so. Genetics and DNA are relevant, but in my opinion environment trumps heredity when it involves a learned behavior, especially in our electronic age of mass media entertainment. Add special interest first and second amendment interpretative laws to the mix and it’s the perfect storm for the next mass shooting. Add a home-life environment, even spiked with issues that we would consider within the normal boundaries of psychological stress and influence ..divorce, literacy, doting, restrictive or permissive parents, religious restrictions and boundaries, educational expectations, success, failure ...then add drugs, alcohol, sex, crime, abuse and and the cauldron begins to boil over.
Back to politics. We continue to address all these issues through flawed processes that have crept into our national framework of government and laws which have helped to corrode the justice system and subsequently the basic family value systems justice is supposed to support.
How will Mitt help us with this?
Children are the product of a relationship. Complicating issues even further, a child may have some issues with speech, behavior and function. He may be diagnosed with RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder), ADD/ADHA (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), Anxiety and Depression. The child may be operating at a severe disadvantage. In addition to all the other reasons why this is of critical concern, is the fact that many, 85-95%, of the kids out there that have severe social problems due to RADS, some shooting up schools, were left undetected, untreated or under-treated.
How will Mitt help us with this? Free ice cream for all kids with RADS? Nuh-uh, won’t work ...but may get the “Mittster” some votes.
These kids protesting are right, they’re doing the right thing ...for all of us. Let’s support them. Next Saturday, March 24th, there will be another nationwide protest including a march on Washington DC ...then another one in April ...hopefully more and more to come. Support them. Do whatever they need. Send money. Go to Washington and carry an “Enough!” sign. Jump up and down, twist and shout! ...demand satisfaction!
Call out the government and all political lightweights, democrats and republicans alike, demand that people like Mitt Romney put down the ice cream, wipe those sincere smiles of phony concern off their faces, stand on their hind legs like men and DO SOMETHING!
Or let’s throw the bums out...!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdms0SeHbw
John Kushma is a communication consultant and lives in Logan, Utah.
