The word “separation” conjures up many emotions, often simultaneously, but rarely are they positive. It usually invokes some sense of loss or impurity. People can separate ideas from action, items from items, chemicals from chemicals, and people from other people — but they cannot separate cause from effect.
Right now, we’ve got a case where all of the above has come into play in a rude awakening for a nation that once prided itself on the balanced nature of its democratic republic, its fairness in giving every person and idea the time of day. But what happens when we fail to shut down ideas that have proven to be wrong throughout history? Such ideas have brought irrevocable harm, or have resulted in decades — even centuries — of failed policies and underlying tensions. Furthermore, not acknowledging our missteps further deepens the hole. If we cannot, as a united force, stand up against immoral actions, we cannot remedy them and move forward.
Children separated from their parents became a political issue this year. In allowing this to happen, we separated the ideas of this country from the actions we ought to take, we severed the associations that children make with parental stability and safety from the truth of what they encounter, and we altered the neurological states of other human beings with the unnecessary trauma that comes when those in power attempt to deny or ignore the effects of their actions.
[For more on this story by MEGAN WALLIN, go to http://lapostexaminer.com/sepa...-the-open/2018/08/21]
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