Life is Bipolar

The events that drive life are opposing forces that cede to one another back and forth, like a tug of war. The result, of which there is no end, is life-- the current state of humankind. Just like the Earth that spins on its axis and around the sun, life is a closed circle. Here are word associations that describe what I'm talking about:

push-pull
conservative-liberal
yin-yang
destructive-constructive
restrictive-permissive
fire and brimstone-love and peace
force-persuade
give-take

You can see it right before your eyes: conservatives jousting with liberals on the best way to rule the country; the battle between religion and secularism; multiculturalism vs. race segregationists.

The Bush Administration, by virtue of its actions has divided the country in a way not seen since the Civil War. To be fair, such debate has been a part of American society since its earliest beginnings. But Bush is reinvigorating and giving momentum to the entities whose activities tend to divide. His policies have pitted citizen against citizen, brother against brother. And it has crossed the oceans. Iran is very close to building a nuclear weapon. They cannot be blamed for their apprehension towards the U.S. Bush, in his incredible demonstration of ignorance on the grandest scale, ordered a first-strike war against Iraq-- the first time in history that the United States military used deadly force without being directly provoked. It doesn't take a foreign policy expert to realize the effect such an action would make on the reputation of theU.S. This action served to confirm most peoples' beliefs that the goal of U.S. foreign policy is empirical rule, cloaked in a mission of promoting peace. We have lost our standing with fellow nations; we are a bully on the world stage. Bullies, as we all know, never grow up to be great people. Their selfish actions are the seeds of their destruction. Fellow Americans, the wheels of our demise as a great nation have started to turn, and they are gaining momentum.