About Us -- An Inquiry

About Us -- An Inquiry

This blog is an inquiry into  “us”, the humans who make up the world in all its many facets. The purpose in writing this is to ask questions about our nation, who we are, the values that underpin us, how we each see our respective nation or the world to which we lay claim.

It began when I listened to a particularly impassioned speaker decrying the polarization that is dividing us into camps. I listened to an equally impassioned response, followed by more voices from many camps. It was soon clear that everyone was willing to talk few were less inclined to listen. I wanted to do neither. 

I wanted to ask questions. I do so herein and I await your responses. The questions are segmented under headings, so if there’s a particular issue more important to you tan another, you don’t have to read through lots of questions to get to what’s important to you.

A caution: If you are going to spew venom, attack the ‘other guys’, I’ll edit you out. I don’t need name calling. I ask you to read the questions and then answer the questions without going off on some tangent. Let our politicians do that, There are more than enough talk show hosts and pseudo new stations. Here we’re sharing human to human.

In a separate blog I ask the question “What if….?” There, the goal is to see if there are not some ways we can contribute to making a new nation, perhaps even a better world. It’s not a one-person job. Let’s see what we can learn from the process.  Same ground rules apply.

We begin.

A person identifies himself as a liberal (his choice) and says, “It’s not a matter of the left versus the right. It’s a matter of the left versus the ‘wrong’. He then goes on to say that it’s wrong to deny women their rights

• To earn equal pay for equal work. Currently the gap is seventy cents for every dollar earned by a male.

Question: Should women have the right to earn equal pay for equal work?