November 9, 2012 – Catechism 1939 – 1948

We need solidarity for the success of the group.  There is a complete lack of solidarity as a country after the election.  Everyone is calling for it, calling for unity, calling for us to move forward, but it is not something that can be forced.  There is even a lack of solidarity among groups, Catholics were split down the middle in voting for Obama.  There appears solidarity among differing minority groups in that they were a large reason Obama won, but what does that point to.  Different groups have different agendas.  Women’s groups do not have the same goals as Gay rights groups and neither have the same goals as immigration groups.  But they were all in solidarity about electing Obama.  What does that even mean for the future?

And solidarity does not mean we have to agree on everything.  Differences are healthy and God created us all with differences because He knew we needed to use all our different talents to be successful, but this lack of solidarity is different.  This isn’t just differences on details or several minor issues.  The lack of solidarity stretches the width and breadth of almost every issue.  In the debates, there seemed to be nothing that could be agreed upon.  The vision of the future and what the country should look like and how we get there is fundamentally different across the two aisles, so THIS lack of solidarity is something that is not healthy.  Trying to find the middle ground, which exist somewhere in all of this, is the answer, but for all the talk, no one wants to move there.  The ugliness of the campaign, the venom that was slung from both sides has poisoned the water for us all and we are stuck in a untenable situation.  Solidarity is the key, but right now we do not have that as a country.