FOR ONE DAY……………
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published July 4, 2022
For the past 364 days we have all been labeled at one time
or another as either Democrat, Republican, Independent,
Conservative, Pro Choice, Pro Life, Straight, Gay, LGBTQ,
pro police, anti-police, pro open borders, anti open
borders, For Black Lives Matter, Against Black Lives Matter,
pro Trump, anti Trump, pro Biden, anti Biden, for the death
penalty, against the death penalty, pro 2nd
amendment, pro gun control and the list goes on and on. We
don’t need to worry about Russia or China beating us, we are
killing ourselves from within. With every new category we
create, we are dividing ourselves from each other further
and further.
We’re at each other’s throats on every issue instead of
calmly having sensible discussion like adults should. 24/7
365 days a year, round the clock news may be the worst thing
that ever happened to this country. When we were kids or
even young adults, the news would come on at 6:00 pm for an
hour and 11:00 pm, for a half hour. Then came Johnny
Carson. That’s it. Nothing was sensationalized. Nothing
was opinionated. The actual facts were presented and you
were left to make your own decisions. Now, stations need to
fill up 24 hours of around the clock news instead of one
hour. How do you do that without blowing everything, every
issue way out of proportion? You can’t. So you
sensationalize everything and get people to argue with each
other and sometimes hate each other and at our worst, we
have even lost personal friendships along the way.
So here we are…July 4th, 2022. It’s our nation’s
246th birthday. Today, we celebrate the birth of
the greatest country the world has ever seen. We provided
sanctuary for more immigrants, cured more illnesses, allowed
more religious and economic freedom than any other country
ever. We landed a man on the moon, created the automobile
and the telephone, saved the world from the Nazis and
tyranny and continue to be the shining beacon on the hill.
It’s why, despite the fact that we are not perfect, people
from every country all over the world want to come here,
because they know that in America if you work hard you can
become anything you want to be.
So today, let’s just celebrate our birthday. Let’s just
celebrate the fact that basically a bunch of farmers beat
the world’s greatest military giving us our own precious
country to run as we see fit. I think all in all America
has done an incredible job. Let’s not forget that and more
importantly, let’s not destroy it. So today, let’s forget
all the categories they now lump us into. For one day,
let’s just call ourselves Americans.
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About
HOA & Condo Blog
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Eric Glazer graduated
from the University of Miami School of Law in 1992 after
receiving a B.A. from NYU. He has practiced community
association law for three decades and is the owner of
Glazer and Sachs, P.A. a five attorney law firm with
offices in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando.
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Eric is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in
Condominium and Planned Development Law.
Since 2009, Eric has been the host of Condo Craze
and HOAs, a weekly one hour radio show that airs at 11:00 a.m.
each Sunday on 850 WFTL.
See:
www.condocrazeandhoas.com.
Eric is the first attorney in the State of
Florida that designed a course that certifies condominium and
HOA residents as eligible to serve on a Board of Directors and
has now certified more than 20,000 Floridians all across the
state. He is certified as a Circuit Court Mediator by The
Florida Supreme Court and has mediated dozens of disputes
between associations and unit owners. Eric also devotes
significant time to advancing legislation in the best interest
of Florida community association members.
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