Attractive trait #1: humility.
Note that I didn’t say dormancy nor being trampled upon nor squelched into submission. I’m speaking of authentic, genuine, attractive and contagious humility — an increasingly rare trait… perhaps even more difficult to cultivate.
With all the ongoings of the week — watching the federal government attempt to administer a colossal, complex policy — witnessing the realm of reactions, I was reminded of a message I felt we need to send to each of our elect and their staffs…
To the President… to Congress… to the Cabinet… to each of their aides.
To the Democrats… Republicans… independents… and even the colloquially categorized extremists.
We have one humble message for you. You will need humility to hear it; we will attempt to be as humble as possible in how we say it.
To the elect… You keep forgetting this. You keep arrogantly spewing and spouting and thinking you know best. You keep talking past each other. Sometimes you even talk down to one another.
Why the berating? Why the demeaning? Why diminish your own integrity to score some sort of partisan points?
Rep. Alan Grayson, granted you hail not from my home state, but what would cause you to stoop so low to compare the Tea Party to the Klu Klux Klan this week? What are you thinking? Why are you behaving in such an arrogant way?
Still such is not what we most need to remind each of you.
Again, to the elect…
What’s your logic? What’s your justification? Why do you use your positions of power to represent only the 1%, 37% or 51%?
Congress, thinking of representing only a limited percentage of people, why would you pass legislation (note: see “Care Act,” arguably “affordable”) with zero votes from another party? How and why is it appropriate to pass colossal, complex policy that only one party supports — especially when that policy impacts 100% of the people?
Still not our message…
With growing calls for Health & Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius to resign, Sebelius took to the microphones to not-so-humbly share that, “the majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people who I don’t work for…”
My message to Sebelius, to the President, to Congress, to the aides, to all persons from all parties: you work for us. You don’t work for a person. You don’t work for any select percentage of people. You work for us.
Remembering that should keep each of you a little more humble… and maybe even a little more attractive.
Respectfully,
AR