One of the biggest problems we have, whether it be nationally or locally, is apathy. This last national election got more people to the polls than ever before. There was a big interest in putting our hope into Obama to affect badly needed change.
The next problem are those people who choose to have tunnel vision on the issues. They want to blame everyone around them for the ills of society instead of blaming themselves and doing something about it.
I had two residents e-mail me today. They were mad. What were they mad at? Well, one blamed me on the slums in Lake Worth and said if I hadn’t voted such and such a way things might have improved in the city. She had some insight as to how I voted in this last election I guess. The other one was just, well, mad. It was her best bud.
Some people who are “mad” at what’s going on in this City need to come to City Commission meetings and speak out. They should attend Board meetings and understand the power structure and what is going on. They need to get active and fight for causes for which they believe. They need to set up meetings with their Commissioners and speak out. But more than anything else, they just plain need to get informed and stop blaming everyone else. Socially produced wrongs can only be cured by our actions. We can’t sit silently by while society and our city changes around us. Try and join a Board. Join a group that has similar beliefs. Get organized and do something.
Blaming any one person for the growing problems in this City is not realistic. Playing the blame game just doesn’t cut it. The more active we get on the issues, the better chance we have of initiating change.
