Part 2- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Many years ago, a comic book was published about a young boy who had to suffer a great loss in order to understand the idea that to whom much is given, much is required. A lesson he learned from his uncle just before he died. I admit I am a comic geek. I love the Spider-man comics in nearly all of their incarnations. Throughout them all, this one universal truth stands out... With great power comes great responsibility.... 

You may think it is a silly thing, a comic book saying... But think about how different our society would be if we all followed this one simple principle. We would recognize the duty we have to honor and protect our fellow citizens. It is a shame that our president and many (most) in our legislatures and justice systems never caught on and ran with this idea. Our presidential candidates leave a lot to be desired in many many areas. Our current president thinks that with great power comes great privilege. He fails to grasp that idea that those who rule must rule justly, that privilege is laid aside to serve. A good shepherd serves his flock, the flock does not serve the shepherd. This makes a good church and it makes good politics.

I wish our president would lay aside privilege and understand that the responsibility he has is enormous to protect the citizens of this country. Instead, he leaves us unguarded with a military whose hands are bound, with a police force that is hated by the people they protect, and a people who are more unsure and insecure about the future he has placed before us because he wants to import potential terrorists (refugees) into this country in order to show how open and accepting we are. 

And maybe that is part of the problem. We have relinquished our power in order to be all-inclusive so as to not offend anyone (unless you are noninclusive, then you are fair game). In becoming all inclusive, we have abdicated not only our power as a nation (which lies mainly in the idea of our identity as a people which we are increasingly surrendering to the cult of individualism). In relinquishing our power, we also relinquish responsibility. Not to those around us.... Oh no. Our president seems very comfortable being responsible for everyone in every other nation, Except ours. He eats hot dogs at baseball games and golfs and dances the nights away while our enemies plot and act against us. It seems that he cares more for making nice with the people who hate us, then the country he purports to love. 

I think what we need are justices, congressmen and senators as well as a president who understands that there is a great responsibility sitting before them. That the responsibility is to serve the people and their best interests. They are not here to give us everything we want (that's entitlement), but to give us everything we need. President Obama, pick up a damn Spider-man comic and read it please. It might enlighten you on how civilized people sacrifice and care for those around them. Like i said... might sound silly, but I think it's better than the balderdash we've been fed for the last 8 years.