I’d like to see someone actually try running on this as a platform. That way they would not be opposed. I mean, their opponents would be at a loss for words. For instance, no one could say later; I told you so. While they probably will if anyone else won.
This political season both parties had “extremist” running that were probably more near what most of the population would agree with. As if by magic, they become excluded, and it is the case this season, even if they are polling better than the acceptable candidates. Makes you wonder who really pulls the strings.
We will not be shown the long distance realities. We will hear one party is better at defending the nation, without ever having the long distance reality check. Another will be called the party of the people or the working people, yet no matter who is in power, the tax burden, over histories arch, continues to be shifted from those who benefit big from American freedoms, to those who struggle to make ends meet, or work paycheck to paycheck.
I heard a speech from a conservative well known think tank a few years back, where the guy speaking indicated that we would need a pool of angry people indefinitely to make sure we have the right stuff to fill our military ranks. Subjectively speaking, this person looked exceedingly like what one would label as nerdy. He was a thinker, but it seems to be true, many of our nations protectors currently do come from poor backgrounds, where an income or the prospect of education, along with a noble role in the nation, prompted them to join up. This scenario is patently exploitative; we need angry people, angry enough to kill.
At 9-11, 2001, I had been near the World Trade Center just a week before. I picked up a friend at a local airport who went by them two days before to get on the Staten Island Ferry. I remember looking at the skies that night, 9-10, and wondering what tomorrow would bring. Where the world was headed.
While I was in Manhattan for several weeks before, I would get some rest (from working on an apartment) by sitting on benches with my partner on Broadway in the Upper West Side. I told her planes flying so low were bothering me. It seemed like an accident waiting to happen. They now seemed to fly diagonally across Manhattan when before they always seemed to go parallel down the Hudson, which I was near. Others probably went down the East River. Of my many visits, air traffic control seemed to have changed, or I was picking up on something.
As I left for LaGuardia in a cab, I looked out the window at all the huge urban area, all the water that went around it and thought; This place is so vulnerable. I felt ominously uncomfortable about it( as I recall the water access particularly aided this negativity). The next day after my partner returned, her daughter called us and said something was happening. I turned on the TV. I could see one tower was smoking.
When I (the only time I did) predicted a tornado to someone, one hit that spot less than an hour latter. The thing is; when I predicted it, one was hitting another high school at that very time. I lean to the idea that inner dimensions continue to connect everything that is, and at times we are sensitive, probably because of our proclivities in that area, to connecting for a moment. I have had countless psychic experiences to confirm that we do connect to one another somehow, sometimes.
I greatly digressed from the election notion for commotion. Gulp!
It amazes me to hear some political commentary, especially those much younger than I, like when I heard one see a replay of Colin Powells presentation to the UN about Iraq, the coffee shop employee exclaimed; “There it is! There’s the smoking gun!”. I had seen the same presentation earlier in the day and could tell there must be so little hard evidence, that they had to come up with drawings, innuendo, allegations, scare tactic stunts, with he said she saids thrown in. It was just propagandized info-slant parading as fact. It was astounding to see such nonevidence paraded (just trust the experts) on forward by the surrendered fourth estate as “convincing” doubt removing and the like. They seem to think we were both born yesterday, and probably after our mother fell off the turnip truck.
Conservatism draws its followers from no-think. No objective reality check involved. Instead biased rationalist stand in to verify the tenets of status and wealth, and whomever some contrived wedge issue can seduce into their ranks. They can become victims of their own faith in the assumptions of conservatism; that it is the sacred wisdom of the past(cannot be questioned); that it is automatically wholesome compared to the free thinking that should be required of liberals(an open mind is an empty mind); that status and authority are rooted in it, thus by following, helping to guarantee their favor(even other primates have the kiss up to alpha response); that by disabling critical thinking abilities, contrapuntal information is presumed false(no thinking required about info that cannot and should not be processed).
And by the way, liberals and leftest can be just as fallible in these respects, including me at times. It is somewhat easy to tell when one is engaging in cult-think when they have a word or two, perhaps a phrase that sums everyone else up; non-believer, infidel, pagan, conservative, liberal, socialist etc. These and many more can be used to remove the heart and soul of someone else. Reduce them to a few letters, then flush them and their hearts down the toilet of contempt.
We are naturally defensive when we feel threatened. After 9-11 I thought I might need to enlist, way too old, but better to use somebody who has lived a while than take those just beginning. My message is; real attacks create real recruits. I think if one is going to advocate a need to take lives, that should be done in the highest sobriety based on truth. If we are to ever transition to a peaceful world, the anger and hate will have to take a back seat to reason, which means truth telling to both the citizenry and the world.
We have seen that for some reason those controlling information in the US have been operating on deceptive fear mongering for opportunist agendas, all hidden behind God and the flag. We were lied to in getting into Vietnam and we were lied to again. I suspect that when the election of 2000 was carried out against the cause of democracy, the seed was sown for predatory interest to take over our beloved sacred abstractions, both of God and nation. Unfortunately everyone bears the consequences of this betrayal.
The truthful defense reaction of most men is to stand up against threat. That has been a male role here-to-fore, and it is one that can be manipulated by cleaver opportunist and propagandist. Others are threatened to a herd mentality behind “patriotic” truth or lies by implications they are aiding the enemy or somehow seditious, solely based on their insistence on standing up for the highest ideals of this country based on truth and not wild speculations or manipulative fear mongering dressed up as cherry picked facts. (Vallery Plame–Joe Wilson)
Keeping citizens greatly ignorant of both the world and interest in the US manipulating the world; (There is a book out I believe is called; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins), we remain at the mercy of dark forces masquerading as the source of our own defence. This cheating on the truth to the population brings back its inevitable blow-back. Lies and deception create monsters of the psyche, monsters that under alleged legitimate concern for the nation, suggest keeping a pool of angry people. What kind of vision for the future is that! What an insult to the nation and to men and women, to suggest we would just roll over and let our cities be taken over by; communist, fascist, or religious fanatics. Yet this blame Americans using their freedoms first notion, is paraded around as the one one party holds.
Huge sums of money are funneled into a Faux news channel, and raving ad homonym near psychopaths to seed conclusion ahead of reason emotionalized perspectives, to grab these very natural safety impulses that are native to humankind. Others think that if someone says they are a Christian (of the right kind) they nearly automatically get their vote. Others think if the person has unions behind them they must-be standing up for the regular Jane and Joe—WRONG.
We need information reform to be informed and honest citizens who can perceive what our true interest are. And we need election reform, so that money is not the deciding factor over the spread of ideas, political or otherwise.
We are a nation that can be true, right, defended, understanding of the world, and free as can be, and have a military with the respect of a priesthood, not a toy for political and ideological opportunist.
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