I vote for politicians who tell me politicians are the
problem, and I watch the media that tells me not to trust the media.
American culture will not be strengthened by limiting its
influences but by broadening them. That has been our history: not condensing
but expanding the story of who we are. Those who have fought to limit our
definition of what is American have always been on the losing side.
Job creators are disincentivizing people from becoming entrepreneurs.
In the old days if you peed in the public well they would
beat you up so bad you’d never do it again. Today they give you a tax break.
If the market expresses our deepest desires, then we are
living in the best of all possible worlds.
I’m pro-life. I can’t imagine ending the life of an unborn
child. At the same time I am a man, and whenever words like “uterus”
“menstrual”, or “gynecologist” are mentioned I plug my ears and start humming
so that I can’t hear what is being discussed. I don’t think I’m that unusual a
man in my behavior, but I do realize that I am behaving like a child who does
not want to deal with things on an adult level. This is reality and reality
cannot be ignored. I think it’s at that point that I have abandoned the right
to judge women regarding their reproductive decisions.
Can you give me an example of a government-caused
environmental disaster in the U.S. that was cleaned up by corporations?
The government fears its citizens because it is not working
in their best interests. Therefore it has to distract them with false or
overblown threats. It’s really not that difficult a concept to understand.
A tree cannot be persuaded to move but must be moved. An
animal can be trained to move and so can be made useful. A human can be taught
to be part of the solution. Government too often treats its citizens as things
or beasts rather than as human beings. Punishment is used rather than
instruction or guidance. Until we have a government capable of dealing with
people as people we will not have a government of, by, and for the people,
instead we will have sociopaths ruling sociopathically.
I find myself distrusting not only both major parties but
anyone who argues within the parameters they shape.
If a system is so unhealthy that it is incapable of giving
you good candidates, and if you are voting for one of the candidates the system
offers you, you are supporting the system. The system we have now will never
offer good choices. The system, being corrupt, will only lead further into
corruption, giving us even worse candidates tomorrow than it has today. This
will lead us into a downward spiral until we realize we have no other option
than to work outside the system. How far will we permit ourselves to slide
before we make the change? How long will we suffer before we find our situation
insufferable?
Taking a stand against a politician or even a political
party is not making a difference. Politicians and political parties by
definition are corrupt. No, we must take stands on positions, declare what is
right and best for our state, nation, world. Only in that way can we hope to
reach those who oppose the politicians we support as the lesser of two evils.
No matter how poor a dance partner the Republican Party is,
the Democrats will never take the lead, nor will the Republicans willingly
follow. It is time for a third party to tap one of them on the shoulder and
demand a dance.
Why is it that you need I.D. in
order to vote, but you are allowed to buy an election and remain anonymous?
Nobody that follows politics seriously can take politics
seriously nowadays.
The problem with tossing bombs into another nation is that you
tend to create a certain segment of that population that wants to toss bombs
back at you. And the grievances of nations don’t dissipate after a week or a
year or a century. The memory of a country and a people stretch forever, while
the memory of those who have tossed the bombs doesn’t really exist at all. One
day you’re sitting eating your breakfast and you hear on the radio about people
blowing your shit up and you wonder why they went and did that.
The only wars
that last as long as the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War are wars of
occupation. Wars of occupation never end until the occupier leaves, which they
must always do eventually, whether it takes a year or centuries. All wars of
occupation end in defeat.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss
events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt said that. A corollary to this
statement would be that the small minds vote for a candidate, average minds
vote for a platform, and great minds vote for power structures. For power structures
are what create the platforms, and it is to the power structures that the
candidate must bow to in order to have a chance at gaining a position.
Blame the government all you want, the media is privately
owned and as culpable as any for the situation we find ourselves in.
Did all those who fought and died in foreign battlefields
fight for glory and for recognition for their deeds, or did they fight for a
better future? If the former, it is best we not remember them, for they fought
only for selfish motives. If the latter, then we must continue their struggle
off of the battlefield. We must work for the world they gave their lives for.
We must work for peace.
Welfare doesn’t cause welfare abuse any more than guns cause
the abuse of guns.
We can have any government we want. We set the standards.
Perhaps we cannot all agree on positions, but we should be able to agree on
truth and integrity. We can commit ourselves, regardless of our position, to
politics with respect.
An abuser makes you feel as though you were responsible for
everything and yet utterly powerless. Similarly, the deep state want to make
you feel ignorant for not agreeing with it as it makes you feel helpless to
learn what is actually going on.
The military industrial complex drives the push for
technology we don’t need and don’t really want.
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