The ancient Hebrew sage, Hillel, asked, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself only, what am I?” With those rhetorical questions, Hillel framed the underlying predicament of our social situation.
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Many sense that we are at dangerous moment in the political life of our country. Our nation is bogged down in a nasty war fought for purposes that our vague, fostered by ideological zeal and founded on lies -- with no foreseeable end in sight. On the domestic front, the gap dividing the rich from the poor has never been greater, and continues to grow, while the middle class, the sustainer of American life and values, suffers the pain of steady anxiety-ridden, erosion. With an election looming less than two months away, political discourse has never been more polarized than now. When we have a need for deliberation and intelligent dialogue we are bombarded by strident sound bites and a slugfest of innuendo, character assaults, and tightly-staged, poll-driven campaigning as each candidate desperately attempts to woo that small sliver of the electorate that may still be undecided.
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