Too Many Fingers

When you live in a large metropolitan area and have to commute through heavy traffic on a daily basis, traffic frustrations are a pretty frequent occurrence.  Before I began commuting downtown, I was always a person who merged into a correct lane early and patiently waited my turn.  A few weeks of commuting and I soon learned the necessity of becoming a more "decisive" driver.  This means in many instances, that I stay in the faster moving lane and merge back into the line of traffic at the very end.  These kinds of traffic maneuvers occasionally result in flaring tempers and flying fingers.  While these instances are annoying, they are easily forgotten.  By the time I arrive at work or home, I've moved on from whatever it was that annoyed me and hopefully whoever I have annoyed has moved on as well.
  
Currently I feel like our country is in a constant state of political road rage.  The chaos emanating from Washington D.C. on a daily (or hourly) basis keeps the divisiveness in this country front and center.  We cannot move past the annoyances.  There are the people that continually want to re-litigate the past-both the election or comparisons to previous administrations.  There are the people that think criticisms of the current administration or criticisms of either political party are somehow wrong.  There are people that refuse to listen to fact based news and only feed their own pre-existing notions.   

This collective finger flashing is not healthy for this country.  We desperately need our leaders and citizens to place their country before any political party.  We need leaders with a clear vision who can articulate and execute policies that will help this nation forward.  We need citizens to do their part by educating themselves and striving to help at the community and state levels. We have SO MANY issues that need addressed and all that is getting done is too much finger flashing.