I recently went to a local high school football game on Friday night and noticed three different social groups or systems in action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The spectators, the football players, and the cheerleaders who all came together to have or find different forms of fun, entertainment and stress relief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At one point the cheerleaders from both sides met halfway and appeared to be having fun, while the football players were having a mixed bag of emotional issues and a rough night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The football players were experiencing anger, hate, envy, sadness, cramps and exhaustion. I also saw four players get hurt, two fights, and one player got ejected from the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It looked like both football teams lost in one way or another that night. There was no real winner. Whereas the cheerleaders we\u2019re having a GREAT TIME! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At one point both groups of cheerleaders met and basically enjoyed their togetherness. I saw them talking, singing, joking, holding hands, smiling, giggling, doing chants and group dancing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a beautiful picture of human respect, kindness, understanding, friendship and love. Hmmm…. Now you tell me, which one of those two pictures reminds you of our messed up political and economic system? Which one do you prefer our country had?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomas Cantu, <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n economic researcher,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Conception, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently went to a local high school football game on Friday night and noticed three different social groups or systems in action. The spectators,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[150],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":150,"user_id":20,"is_guest":0,"slug":"staff-reports","display_name":"Staff Reports","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/0437b672851a8a9f7b27b17b33805122.jpg?ver=1778634720","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6310,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}