It's always an inside job.

I can barely watch the news. A friend and I were talking about how we were taught in school...to examine current events, read newspaper articles, talk about them. Of course that was in the day when news was reported. Not made up. Not spun to favor one side or another. Not shaded, or broken sound bites made into a conversation. Back in the day when we were all taught to think, not told what to believe.
I know it was present in other ways...the zeitgeist....predjudice...segregation, for one. I'm not saying life was perfect or even better. I'm just saying, there was still something called journalism. Where you gave me the facts, and I was trusted to make up my mind about those facts.
And Christian news is no different. Don't fool yourself. There is some deep confusion about what is religion and what is patriotism. The extreme right has confused their politics with their faith. Talk about a dead system. Really...the answer is to make Jesus a Republican?  The other side, the so called extreme left is equally delusional. But that's because what we see in the news IS the extremes. It's manipulation.
But neither of those extremes have to represent us. Or control us. Refuse the brand. Love each other anyway. The real American spirit is not to champion our idea of whomever is the current popular underdog....or to demand MY rights.
My real point is...and yes, I have one....that change is always an inside job. There is nothing these people represent that will bring lasting change to this country. Because it isn't realized in programs, strategies, or everyone gathering on one side or the other.
We forgot unity. In the midst of diversity....their should be unity. Not conformity....unity. Unity doesn't come from a set of beliefs. It should come from love. (A higher priority than rights.) Unity can be a vehicle for love when people are vastly different from one another. It's the true tolerance. It means there is a higher calling than our differences. The call to love is every single human beings call.  I realize this isn't simple. We are so far down this road, I don't see us coming back from it until Jesus comes back. But I...I can choose love. In the end, that's all I have control over. It's an inside job.