Seemingly sponsored/promoted by allegedly neutral Fox News(iness), the Tax Day tea bag protest were not protesting last year for some reason–no debt or govt. spending? From what I have heard from actual protest site’s (often occurring on tax created and maintained parks), it was mostly a kind of local-ism for the participants.— The stressed individual overwhelmed by forces out of their control, seemingly, were herded into an identity tag you can dunk with; The Problem being; the looming threat of reckless BIG GOVERNMENT.
I presume government is conceived of as only now being a runaway drain. Yet there is reality, as we should all know, due to the enormous plug pulled out of the nations bathtub, this unfortunately requires more government expense –water– to keep the ship of state afloat and not immediately going down the drain. But this will not matter to the pawns and fearful who are easily guided by quick fixed ideology as the magical HOW OBVIOUS! answer to their ills. Diverting attention by adjusting appearance in thought has always been a society manipulators best trick.
So forget about reason; this is about Appearance Reality, and easy fixes for the individual to assume are the answer; the honorable and self regulating individual–no tax–no government–no Barack Obama– no Peloisi–no any kind of liberal. Then we are left back with the usual anarchy/predatory capitalism’s overlords who manipulate societal stress to eek out every last bit of blood from The Commons. What? (I really do wish we could all be trusted to self regulate while keeping The Whole of Life in perspective. I’d prefer to have that easy blind faith. The problem is it requires one’s critical thinking to be unplugged.)
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Yep. Unbridled profit is a siphon, that without regulation, will drain away both accountability and responsibility for the self, above all else. That becomes a (redistribution of wealth) pyramid scheme, where the bottom, as always, supports the “winners” on top.
Hurray for actual workers! Bless your poorer forever hearts. You deserve to be poor, cause otherwise who will actually build or clean my Olympic pool? The systemic fix is on most of those protesters, whether libertarian or “conservative”.
The earth is not flat, or an infinite context where ideology can exist apart from reality. The ideology of “winning”, of even “success” is an illusion if held outside of the real context of All Life. If you get the people of the whole earth to drive your gas guzzling car; you are not the biggest winner, although your income status may yell it loudly. You may well have precipitated the biggest systems collapse–for all of us.
Get rid of government, and I hope some rich guys will protect us in a turbulent world? Guess some other rich folks will hire someone to pick up the garbage, clean things in The Commons? Some other rich folks going to take care of those who fall through the cracks? or are we on our way to being a nation of once upon a time Calcutta’s? We The People having been dissected and left by the side of the road as road kill.
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There are two kinds of Socialism (economies as wealth redistribution) and hybrids; capitalism, or as it could be termed private socialism–profit as individually imposed tax; and the communist kind that never exist–all for one and all. A sensible and pragmatic society will entertain some mix of these extremes, plus periodic leanings one way or another to address important issues.
But then there is abstract ideological purity, along with all the sanctimony and self excuse that comes with it. No problem, if you are amputated from thinking of The Whole, or The Commons, or The Environment, you have succeeded in ideologically amputating yourself from Life, excusing oneself to announce to the world that government balancing economic issues with societal reality equals= liberal socialist! The earth is obviously flat; just look!
It is Life that has the real say. But if appearances can be controlled to your ideological preference and delusions? Rant on against the Big Government Juggernaut. Heat up the political hot water for your perceptual comfort. Forget Democracy just supplied this group of politicians to deal with the situation. Pretend we had no true representation. More pretend the merrier!
-Ah!!! More Bags Please!
Now that’s what I’m talken’ about!
Right wing Sugar Cube Test
-Look closely at most of the behind the scenes big money organizers, and you will see the usual host of suspects that reap the rewards no matter which way the political wind blows. They are much more protected if sand/tea bagged in by the citizen protesters they can lure into their mind altering tea party. Of course they prefer the politics that leaves all hands off of them, while squeezing you ten ways to one. Just common sense for separation. However, we cannot actually divide and conquer reality, only human ideas of it.
Tax Responsibility as the Rights Never-ending Whine Train
Just as in the “Death Tax” ruse,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4725777; that had something like 30 times the number of conservatives thinking they were up for a tax break or prevention than actually were in reality, for these other ruses to work, reality need be unhinged. It seems a big movement is underway to unhinge conservative, or some conservatives fact checking. The anti-science and anti intellectualism (except their kinds) on the right exist for this very reason; once anyone’s source of information is tainted or fabricate, not having institutionalized checking on that lets perception be manipulated in just about any direction one wished. The right has their own “truth” disseminating propaganda outlets and sycophant ideological sites to do this bidding for behind the scenes manipulators 24/7/ad-infinitum.
Party on…
Alice?
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Anyone seen Alice?
Down the hole…
-The right wing overboard “truth finding” machinery will be digging up their left wing hysteria angle over the evil liberals hypocrisy, likely for some time after this event. Liberals will be noted as hypocrites for daring to criticize the right for having a protest. (Well not actually a protest but the reasons for its place and time. But this is context and some of these conservatives do not know what that actually is.) And by deference, as usual, the right can be expected to legitimize itself over its perceptions of what the left does, hence the entitlement reactionary.
Rush L is a good one to see this with; (see his comments on a Republican president shooting black teenagers (pirates from Somalia), presumably implying Republican presidents can not be black?) anything “true” (him) conservatives do, no matter what, is right. Anyone on the left, or liberal, who does the same thing is sinister, manipulative etc., being given hypothetical scenarios to appear as reality to those detached from it. Then moving onward as if all is indeed true. How well Appearance Reality seduces many a conservative, and those who think they are, into their own political correctness. Many liberals do fall for Apperance Reality as well I will note.
…A Rabbit Out of a Hat
April 9 2009
Texas desperate to get reelected fanatical governor Rick Perry, whose state received more than twice the federal return on the tax dollar, 88 cents on the dollar, was hearing calls of “secede” today at the Tax rally. Keep the money coming in folks, but just do as I say, not as I do? I am the great and wonderful OZ.
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Freedom Works Tea Bag organizer Dick Armeys firm work for the bailout Co’s AIG, ,,,
Appearance Reality; Objective Reality; Consensus Reality and Cultural Mind Control.
Why Does The Right Wing Need Reality Unhinged?
Essentially for the same reason the round earth reality was opposed by authorities, or the sun as center of the solar system was opposed; to keep control of the authority paradigm under their thought control, is a conservatives first imperative. For that they will deny evidence from observed reality that seems to constrain their authority. They are then compelled by emotion, to demean new or opposing information, particularly by shaming the messengers of contradiction and their message. We can be most passionate over that which we least know as fact.
They right wing often seeds irrationalism into the national dialectic to keep corralled, those dependent upon blind forms of trust, as opposed to more verifiable scientific analysis. We are figuratively then cast into the debate between the right wings modern versions of an obviously flat earth (appearance’s) , and the intellectual elites ideas of a round world which requires thought and rational interpretation. The conservative right spends much time on shame, blame, and attacks on science and intellectualism in general (their own excepted). Ignorance becomes the prime conservative currency they can take to the bank, made by trust in their authority and its “invincible” ideology.
Conservatives need to control Appearance Reality, always have. In effect, tantamount to metaphorically supporting a kind of pseudoscience, for they must offer their “real” evidence why they cannot be wrong. They operate from the assumption, then, that their view is reality, truth or fact, and other views wrong or fantasy. For this they must shame deep inquiry as tantamount to a kind of obfuscation, or complicated mental based fantasy. If you control how things seem by controlling emotions through fear rather than conscientious reason, a public diverted from objectivity will be primed to “get” the conservatives absolute surety.
AppearanceReality is the appearance “truth” of how things seem. Today’s conservatives see the economy, as well as their social values, as these kinds of inviolable right truths, and questions from you or I are automatically (if challenging their conceptual paradigm), felt by them as being wrong. We appear wrong to the narrative of their dogma. Since we seem somehow willingly wrong to them, they tend to invoke shaming in order to stop critical thinking abilities from functioning fully—in the conservative faithful. (When growing up as a child, conservatives were notable for their attachments to appearance. They may claim deep belief for the biased orientation, but so often it is how things look; the clothes one wears, the length of ones hair, the flag pin, appearance seeming to “make the man”.)
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-Science Itself Must Be Debunked; Kinds of Faith Overriding Evidence and Rational Theory
Objective contextual rendering of complex social and economic issues, such as theorized from science, must by necessity, be perceptually tarnished, often by pseudo-scientific emotionalized debunking. It is out of conservatism’s control mind-frames, to allow intellectual theory or controversy to spiral out of their control narratives. Conservatism relies on the appearance of a-prioriknowing of unquestionable “truths”. Contrary ideas can then be declared spurious and wrong merely by existing, without the need of any objective-like truth finding or further research.
You will notice conservatives emotionalized ad-hominem attitude’s of contempt and shaming as primitive authoritarian manipulative identity control mechanisms. Conservatism depends upon select self-serving rationalization to define their apparent unquestionable group defined consensus reality. To question them is perceived as offending them, the questioner is perceived as being on the side of something inherently wrong. The manipulative tactic of The Thought-terminating cliché, is widespread across the conservative right, serving the purpose of emotionally diverting questions regarding beliefs by placing identity boulders in the way of perceiving cause and effect..
http://www.indopedia.org/Thought_terminating_cliche.html
This opens the door to proselytizing demagogues from soapboxes in the mass media. Emotional confidence establishing blame and derogatory definition onto to those outside of conservative mind frames, is to conservatism, as fertilizing soil is to a farmer; the right attitude and fact selection will produce some growth in the appearance reality consensus in the gullible as to how other humans act based on emotionalized assumption by appearance. Conservatives become trained as to the look of the world by Pavlovian like reward and punishment indoctrination. This naturally leaves them with stressors seeming to initiate in outside groups and belief.
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Faith is infinitely more easy to manipulate than objective fact in context.
As of late you might have noticed; from Rush Limbaugh, to Glenn Beck, to Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and most anyone else the GOP enabled right pushes out to the spot-lights; something is very amiss in their perception, and or, their intention. Why do some see reality as a thing apart from facts in context, compared to facts sifted into ideologically screened conclusions? (The deregulation supported by anarchy capitalist has crashed and burned many, yet many of these conservatives claim the fire came from somewhere else.)
Our Information Context: The Right Wing’s Attack Upon The Open Paradigm Of Liberalism* (note at bottom of post)
In corporatized America, most people work for, and the laws made these days work first for, corporations. The charge upon liberalism from the right over the last many decades, was to re-frame liberal and conservative meanings; essentially to alter the liberal institutions of freedom, liberty and responsibility embodied in Democracy and the equal rule of law. These offspring of liberalism are attacked from within their own manifestation, by those who see the untying of their authority hold in the open society.
The earth has been defined as a possession of winners, and an abstracted success, where reality perception has become divided and conquered by the self-self as an identity who wins earth prises, or heavenly ones. The individual seemingly to be unconcerned with environmental or other consequence as long as they are kept in the darkness of ignorance, or behavior is considered legal.
The lack of conservative ideology inside the liberal context of Democracies inherent egalitarian premise (one person one vote, equality under law), is an institutional threat to authoritarians that must be destroyed somehow, for the right wings unquestioned interpretation of reality to dominate perception. The conflict addicted corporate media finds this power grab “show” to be just another potential emotion grabbing crisis conflict that advertisers can juggle to hold the viewers in by emotional appearance of importance.
Lately the “Culture Wars” and “Wedge Issues”, along with corporate media bottom-line propaganda outlets, pour these new non-egalitarian ways of seeing things “truthfully” into The Common air. Real in depth analysis is not encouraged, since it would tend to work toward a perceived eventual solution. Allegations and denials make for much more interesting easy to comprehend “news” than complex intellectual consideration. Corporate interest thus trumps defining reality truthfully, and that is another factor biasing and demeaning information in Democracy. Notice how, for both major political parties, we generally accept them based upon faith, and not much on true certainty to campaign induced expectation. For many, elections seem a kind of crap-shoot.
Conversely, an apparent truth of this contention and business sales addicted media, with its bottom line worshiping lack of order in the eyes of “moral” order conservatives, leads to the generalized conclusion that the media is obviously “The Liberal Mainstream Media”, end of discussion. An obvious truth.
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Dividing and Conquering the Definition of Democracy
The corporate mind’s dominator interest (including some church’s as the original multinational corporations) and the usual hierarchical mindsets, would have a much easier time at dominating culture if certain aspects of Democracy were essentially disabled, into a kind of entertaining side show. Make the work in progress nature of liberalism’s plurality of interest seem inherently weak and dysfunctional, for not bowing completely to a church, sole economic or other “right” paradigm. We find that a kind of corporatism has gradually been supplanting the voter as the actual decider in government policy, particularly under Republican reign, but with Democrats as well. The public effectively being seduced away from their Democratic birthright handed down by our ancestors.
Democracy posses a continuous threat to the right wing, for it has a potential door open to rational thought. Whether the economic conservatives or the social conservatives, whose interest often run counter to it, Democracy’s potential is highly problematic. Huge amounts of money have funded conservative think tanks, as well as the many right wing propagandist seeded throughout the culture to brand problematic, and other aspects of liberalism, as the source of all ills. Again; pulling the rug out from under the promise and premise of Democracy and the equal rule of Law, while avoiding addressing the true source conditions that produce societal stress and dysfunction.
Democracies intrinsic equality of citizenship can be undone by; money, privilege, class, entitlement etc., once individuals re-frame their notions of Democracy into isolated out conservative identity mindsets, what supports our liberal institutions is undermined by a detached “free” individualism that can be sold the ideology of corporate identity and lifestyle branding. When I need a car that works; uh, what could democracy have to do with that? What indeed.
I often find talking point ideas of the week from conservative leaders, suddenly coming from many an “independent” and “freedom loving” blog post. If they only could see how their passion can be used against them by the very folks who give out the ideas for the propagandist to expose and “free thinkers” to emulate. Yep. They would assume the same of me, but not likely of they.
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-The Individual TRAPPED
Once one becomes as a prisoner to ideological presupposition, especially as the functioning life cosmological/spiritual view, fact and fiction can be tailor made to suit prejudice. Example?
Today I encountered a view from a conservative I know from family in Texas who is visiting, which got me going onto this post. The 85+ something Republican party regular from an Air Force military career family I am referring to, was watching the weather news with me, commented on the cold weather in the nation and the many other indications that global warming is a deception. Gulp!
I mentioned that to her that global warming does not actually predict momentary weather, and that global warming is expected to create more extremes in weather. I stopped from mentioning that over the last decade record high temperatures have exceeded record lows by a 2 to 1 margin. Nor did I inform her that both earths polar hemispheres are experiencing a glacial meltdown unlike the consistent glacial pattern of alternating cycles associated with solar radiation altering earths axis wobbles over the last 600,000 years. I did not say these things for they would not be accepted, and I would rather have her not spend rare visiting time in arguing.
Now this very senior citizen I am referring too, was a stanch conservative (offspring all very liberal) who began to have some doubt during the Bush presidency about the nature of the Republican Party. She is actually somewhat liberal by many a definition of liberal, being understanding and empathetic toward suffering and issues of the poor and disadvantaged. I enjoy spending time with her. However, the GOP brand seems one she is marked with, holding many clichéd talking points as explanations for why thing are the way they are. In many ways politics is like religion; being, many of us get what our parents had. These days that may be much less relevant for some, but not for others.
“Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.” Alan W. Watts
And I Would Add Situational Bias’s Opportunism
What my view is, is that much situational advantage, and or privilege, and even some real or seeming oppression, tends to dictate many a belief. This is an inherited situational opportunism, in that the temptation of ones station in life can see others as probable cause of ones problems and inadequacies, whether right or wrong, especially if repeatedly told so with emotionalized confidence. When separation is conserved into ones identity, the inference from outside of wrong aspects of ones view are often dismissed from consideration. As far as The Whole is concerned, this is problematic in a Super Context where all things are interconnected and interrelated.
The aforementioned family member not buying the global warming ruse… Well, she has stock and military income, and considers Texas her home. Her husbands military carrier at war, and in the CIA and Pentagon, situated that well worn notion that the Republicans are “good” for the military. Arguable—-the fact of the matter and not necessarily the perception. Her husband had once brought up an opposing view to the party one, and was thereafter apparently ostracized. This according to a daughter who remembers the incident and communications. Seems a familiar pattern to the recent GOP one party rule during most of Bush’s presidency, where contrary position from their own ranks was met with threat of losing support.
What I see in many a conservative these days, and especially the cadre of emergency/crisis fear ranting ideological propagandist and talk show talking point spreaders, is this suit to their advantage philosophy. Reality and actual objective fact seeking is not to stand in the way of support for the appearance realities that promote ones situational perspective; where fiction can become potentially more important to rationalization, than rational thought and objective study. Objectivity itself, has fallen into “intellectual elite” bias, to the degree that Republicans seem to think that if you do not do all they want, you are not bipartisan or nonpartisan. Mind-blowing for a mind bending reason; only we possess the truth, so why would we agree to less? Conservative values trump reality itself. That is scary.
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Check It Out
Reading conservative blogs and news sources is a study in an institutionalized paranoia and the “unfairness” of liberals and by extension, liberalism. The changing of the liberal philosophical view that created Democracy, into one of demonic and fact impaired lowlife liberals/socialist/communist , is stunning to see. “Facts” and “Truth” or “truthfulness”, are seen as dishonest if coming from the left. The left does not seem to see the undoing of liberalism (and implied, albeit by ignorance; Democracy) as grounds for an existentialized fair, balanced or other “integrity” bound definition debate wearing myopic conservative blinders, as being a good thing for Democracy to proceed forward by.
For a future for Democracy, my above allegation will find its Nemesis in apparent truthful rendering of fact and context . Yet I assert that many conservatives are effectively against reality, and ultimately against Democracy. The fact and context they will point to are tailor made to fit a conserved ideology that perceptually drives exclusion, and not inclusion, after all the should’s and shouldn’ts are blown off of ideology. Their fear is over deep insecurity hiding behind the curtain of avoidance of question, and the implicit fear of objectivity itself.
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The right wing needs reality unhinged so it can claim that only its view is the real truth. Its mass of followers and worshipers of hierarchical mindset (supporting opportunistic advantage), see all that is not in line with their view as objectively impaired. Most any right wing news or opinion I read, is startling in its crippled premise and perceptual parameters, seemingly disabled from observing objective fact in whole context.
Indeed, like in global warming, and so many other always exposed liberal “lies”, these conservatives cannot comprehend the ambiguity and nuance of interpretation that is endemic of the world and the nature of events occurring therein. They are as if defending the honor of their flat earth basic truths, or their; “The sun obviously circles the earth” confident certainties, so plain and unmistakable in their view, exactly how it appears; since essentially they do not allow questions as to the completeness of their views and motives, other than asserting they are not anything but just and honorable; well, most conservatives would so claim, that is.
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Democratic freedom and responsibilities are under assault, perhaps unknowingly, by many on the right. Some of these surely believe they are actually defending these very institutions born of liberalism. It is up to those who seek objective truth in context, to defend an entitlement for every being to be able to be in their rightful place in Life. The imperative of equality of consciousness implied to individuals and culture alike, must be asserted above the assumed rights of individuals to do what they want to others and the environment, assumed without consequence, that would be instituting delusion above reality.
We are in a battle for the definition of truth and reality that has implications for everything and everyone. Whether the truth is not to be questioned by objective analysis; or whether the truth is discovered via objective analysis. If truth is assumed to be beyond question, then Democracy will be defeated by those who eventually will rationalize it away. The re-framed notions akin to the flat earth, or sun circling the earth, will become a faith based viable true belief again, based on apparent fact.
If truth is everywhere and everyone’s responsibility to detect and define; then Democracy may well survive, for truth’s refinement then becomes all of our charge. The right wing needs reality unhinged for a reason; that ignorance (established in non-questioning) may dominate over information/knowledge. That is not fair and balanced. It is suicidal.
To walk truly, we require real Truth from which to see straight. Right wing conservatives claim to know the truth, but deny outside questioning to establish truth as consistent and verifiable fact. This is the conservatives conundrum; claiming reality while not allowing objective analysis of it.
It is the pathway to destruction, to claim authority beyond question, for then every manner of deception is opened up into insecurity’s Pandora’s Box, when we do not accept incoming evidence from real Life.
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Being a real liberal is not for lazy minds:
“The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.” -Bertrand Russell
Being a liberal does not mean the truth is not conserved. It means you trust objectively intentioned evidence above belief or attitude as evidence.
[First off. I'm a reactionary on this post. I saw at the bottom of one of my post on WordPress, that on those few articles they put on your post coattails was one saying; I'm voting Republican. I thought; heaven forbid, I certainly would not. And that was the genesis of this polemic. Classic reactionary motivation.]
One caveat on never voting Republican; unless the party identities switch like they essentially had since the Civil War.
Now I agree with the somewhat diversionary nature of the two parties; put all their alleged “values” aside, and like it or not, We the People are becoming corporate appendages. Giant business interest are assuming the interest of the American citizen. We are becoming more and more secondary to what is good for corporations. That old saying of Lincolns made at Gettysburg; “ — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Well. That government is being sold to the highest bidder.
But there are salient differences in the two parties
At 8 years old, I entered the Republican party headquarters in my town to do volunteer work. There were some really old (to me at the time; (80ish)) people working in the office who totally ignored me. I asked if there was something I could do, and it seemed I was invisible. They disappeared into a back room, and after a while I left.
So I walked up the street a few blocks into the Democratic party headquarters. There were much younger folks in there, and lots of them. I asked if I could help, and was asked if I’d like to stuff envelopes. Sure. This was my first encounter with the two party system. I was rewarded when finished, getting large buttons of various kinds from the tables in there.
Well faces might have changed, but my impression of the two parties has little. The one essentially ignores regular folks like me entirely, except to drag identity into their trap by so called moral or value seduction. I say seductions, cause if you watch the so called conservative party, it is filled with what I call cognitive dissonant characters. People who need to assuage their guilt by being conservative, or at least proclaiming to the world that they are, for that framed “high ground” many mistakenly believe they are on. If you cared to notice, the list of these folks over the last many years are filled with the ranks of those saying one thing and behind our backs, doing another.
I know. There are lots of corrupt Democrats as well, but generally they do not claim to be the warriors of right and righteousness, while seemingly helping corruption and incompetence crowds their ranks. At least the Democrats tend not to pander entirely to vague and grand abstractions exclusively. They give actual accounting to how they will help the average person in trying times, while managing the nations other interest.
Aside from the political rights “value” seductions, (Which, if you notice, always seems to be saved in conservative political bank accounts for election to election.), the tax cutting ruse serves astoundingly well as a trick to cut taxes to the wealthy, leaving us with their share of the tab.
Yes. Some might not like it, but the super rich use and abuse The Commons much more than any average folks do, yet they want us to pick up the tab by some socialist like dumping of their price tag on all the rest of us. Cognitive dissonant folks like to ignore these deeper realities. Inserting “character” and “individualism” ideological disconnection in to cover the Debt they raise for all of us on The Commons–(all our interconnected spheres of influence on life on a finite planet).
So this brings me to why I vote Democratic; They do not count on me being a blind or blinded follower as much as that other party trust I will not check facts or question outcomes of the high and mighty. The Democrats do not seem to have a whole machinery in place to crank out cognitive dissonant notions out to divert inner guilt. There is a reason many conservatives tend to deny things like The Commons. They can then deny pollution, and so keep money pouring in, along with a self serving notion of great success. Deny global warming, thus do that “freedom” thing to do whatever you want without consequence (obviously an illusion). Then their pandering to how might is relied on to make right. Actively promoting war and societal conflict, exactly what IKE was warning of so long ago.
COUNTRY FIRST?
The “patriotism” that was called “The last refuge of scoundrels” was on perfect display these last several years. That a claim of patriotism hides behind so much deception and wrongness, helps us all see how some of the worlds worst crimes against humanity were carried out in nationalistic or patriotic fervor; The truth can be indited as being “against ones country”.
Through my life, yes the Democrats are doing more and more of this pandering to diversionary thinking, but they pale in comparison to the others lack of principle or allegiance to what is actually where true honor and patriotic feelings to anything resides– in the honest truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Just look at the Republican campaign. Chock full of ideological “givens” as truth, so much like a cult. Republicans claim to be for honor and country. Then why do they require the truth of their own actions to be so distorted? Everything is someone elses fault allegedly; The “Liberal Press” and various self serving definitions of “elites”, go on and on in circles to short circuit critical thinking abilities. It is as if reality itself is their nemesis. They seem to require making something out of next to nothing (Bil Ayers as example), then wonder why the MSM is against spreading their propaganda unchecked.
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I have had it with the tactics they use over and over, election to election; below the belt negative campaigning. Yet I know why they require it like mothers milk; the truth is not on their side. So they must poison the environment of the media with endless innuendo and allegation, backed up by righteousness and pablum platitude pandering. Then when the other side fights back with the same “fire”, wow! All the; ‘Look how they are!” pundits and party hacks go on the rant; how Democrats are so gosh darn devious. ‘Can’t you see what they are doing!?’ It really is as if a reverse mirror is inserted into the conservative mind to divert realities accountability, then allow in only fantasy propaganda seen as knowledge. Point out reality to them and what? You have a liberal bias! Unfair! Look how wrong! Why are these liberals so disingenuous…etc.
The demagoguery this election is profound on the “conservatives” side, their hope is put into fears greedy hand. I feel for them, for the trap their minds are in. Yet I know I will be ignored by them just as in 1960. They are not interested in our nations diversity of interest and diverse points of view. They must demonize our “otherness” to comfort their mental mindsets; why they rely on this kind of horrific insinuations; ‘You are supporting terrorist if you vote Democratic.’ and other shameless contempt of others, indicting debate and democracy itself.
They have shamelessly tried to poison the Justice Department with the same “spirit” as their Supreme Court, which gave itself an excuse clause to call the lost election in 2000 a win for their kind, then deny accountability for their own actions. We have been living in the aftermath of that violation of America now for nearly 8 years.
I have had enough of this attempt by some delusional “conservatives” to take over American and turn it into their own Theocratic marketplace. Where only their kinds of folks and their kinds of thinking need apply. We are all in this life together as much as conservatives try to change the definitions to make it seem we are not. I sure wish there are some honorable ones out there who will put nation ahead of party.
Some are taking that stand now. And for that courage in the face of shaming ostracism, to put country ahead of ideology I say. Thank you! May the honor you show become magnified, changing your party to a base of truth and not ideology first. For then we all win, no matter what troubles we need face together. Thanks for standing up for all of America, all you brave reality based Republicans crossing over this time. Lincolns spirit is alive and well within you. It is an honor to know of your presence. Maybe someday you could change my mind on the nature of what actually controls your party. I certainly hope for our nation that you do.
I’ll be proud to vote for that kind of Republican party. Until that day…
We are beginning to see how little someone can put into their job. For Sarah Palin to be making a policy statement on disabilities, while going on to rebuke and shame the very research she is endorsing, is astounding.
We should expect that if one is going into something you have a passion for, knee jerk denunciations of wasteful spending should not be directly connected to where you are calling for more spending. Apparently no fact checking required, just a lot of us and them attitude.
Seems some have a “faith” in anything that comes out of their mouths if it is on their talking points list. For how could it possibly be wrong? Isn’t all that stuff figured out? I guess once again, nobody told her how conservatism, as we no have it, is against itself. Yet do not worry. One way or another, the liberal something or other, or gotcha something or other, will explain away the demagoguery. Susceptible people of this “faith” will nod to whatever the excuse is.
Let us hope it is “I am sorry.”
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I am sorry if my “faith” commentary seemed to ridiculele faith. We cannot live without faith, like it or not.
The faith I speak of is blinded faith.
A faith in fantasy above provable reality, for this breed of misogynistic faith has been mounting over the years; It is a faith based in intolerance.
Examples?
A faith that Barack Obama “pals around with terrorist” from the very mouth of one who pals around with anti American secessionist,
What can we make of this faith that seems to prefer hate and otherness over this world we all live in?
Americans are from many different traditions and faiths, none that I am aware were banned in the US Constitution, where it must have said; only certain faiths need apply.
And am I guilty of these very issues merely by bringing them up? Which has become a common “existentialized relativistic” thought-terminating cliché, hand made to terminate thinking from analyzing issues.
If so, and I offended you. I am sorry.
But I have faith in freedom and understanding:
That light has the ability to dispel darkness. And Love the ability to heal any division. In this faith I will not apologize to doubt.
I am hearing this a lot from the talking-head o-sphere.
Now we could ask practically the same thing of Biden, after his recent commentary; which the prevailing “permanent” seeming wisdom, tends to work foreign policy issues to the favor of the Republicans. I know!
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These talking heads say that Palin seems to be setting up support for her own base for the future, and not keeping in line with McCain.
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What part of maverick do we not understand?
Oh yeah.
The part where one can say anything to suit a situation, reverse it when pressed, then go back to it again in another context? That kind of maverick?
Oct 14, 2008 …Palin’s portrayal of anyone running against a Republican as illegitimate, as less an American than she is, is disgusting. Does she know her…
… who became angry when he saw a John McCain bumper sticker on her car, … her a lesson for being a McCain supporter,” according to a police statement. …
THIS QUESTION MUST BE ASKED SINCE IT WAS ASKED OF LIBERALS, AND AMERICA INCLUDES EVERYONE
The poison spewing into the campaign from the right wing is showing its disturbing intentions; to divide the nation.
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The next paragraphs are to comments I was sent about this post, which claimed I was doing the same thing as I accused the others of, so all my points are not relevant. How convenient for sophistry. Fasten your conceptualizing seat belts.
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And NO. Bringing this up is not doing the same thing.
ANALOGY
If a nation or a body has cancer, something that will undo its very life; yes, that cancer might be a part of the body, but it is a part that may well eliminate the body if not addressed. Being against cancer is not being against the body, or, doing the “same thing”. Yet in some minds, it is that easy to dismiss all other presentation. I guess; nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, is all some need to feel vindicated.
But outside of a childish mental fantasy land; the argument is over what keeps a body or a nation wholesome and sound as an entity, and what will eat it away from the inside, if I or you do not resist it. Clearly when someone or cell in a body (or a nation) says only cells just like it are the real body; lets say only breast tissue, then something potentially fatal has occurred; AND SHOULD NOT BE IGNORED IF CONTINUED LIFE IS TREASURED. Addressing cancer does not, however, make one cancer. Seems obvious, but not to philosophical relativist.
The difference in nuance and complexity are lost on some, making lazy way for a small dismissive comment. I have often heard these kinds of dismissals offered by those unwilling to compare the philosophical positions offered. Instead, they present personalized “proof” implications. Often one liners or other short attention span kinds of observation.
The “turn it back trick” is so easy; just copy what I just said, then say I just did just that! Presto! Most any statement one wishes can be reversed when it claims a characteristic of an opposition. It’s kinda like reverse psychology. By stating what was making a point, is actually its own self defeating point, reasoned analysis can then be shut down. Sometimes called a thought-terminating cliché when standardized to buzzword appeal.
I decided to remove the comments and my replies, since I do not do negative comments on others post, and do not intend this blog to be taken up by cartoon characters with an agenda.
I say this point above after being “proved wrong” by a philosophical relativism seemingly incapable of making distinction, yet apparently enjoying spreading their observation impairment around.
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BACK TO THE ISSUE
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Post written after seeing a news interview with a government official holding contempt toward free thinking fellow Americans, effectively calling them anti American.
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The deceptively constructed calls are alleging that Barack Obama was engaged in terrorist activity, if one listened to the contextual structure of the robo calls. This is the same tactic used to create the Iraq invasion, with the blurring of who Saddam Hussein and Osama bin laden were. Utter use of the black arts of deception. We are seeing both context and fact mixed up into the same cauldron. Then presented as wholesome truth to ingest.
The so called culture war has devolved into spiteful unsubstantiated allegation. On another front “against America”, being a liberal is now being equated with being anti American. Curiously, this implicates those making such allegations against we Americans exercising our rights to think like we want. Those dividing the nation into true and false Americans, bare the mantel of who is consciously or not; being anti-American.
The whole who is for America argument from the right wing suggest that those who think different that right wing ideologues, are now game to be tagged as being against America. This is obviously meant to impress the clueless, by being against pluralism, against diversity, and against freedom itself, under the cover of ideological rightness.
We have seen the ugly specter of nation chopping and dismantling. With the suggestion that it is small town America that holds the real or true Americans. Imagine the contempt for this nations nature, to suggest that only certain areas have authentic Americans. This kind of thinking is frightening in its tribal warfare mentality. Do some wish to be held responsible for the so called culture war becoming a civil war? They seem not to care.
What this serpentine strategy is, if allowed to destroy the nations common identity with its toxins, is against the very founding nature of America. However, it is being promoted as a means to save America, but only certain kinds of Americans need be counted. The rest of us are to be ignored, deplored, or who knows what given the against America rhetoric; locked into internment camps?
For the toxin to work, some Americans will need to be convinced to unwind the fabric of the flag. Instead of Old Glory; they will be waving the bleached white flag of surrender to that which is against us.
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Here are some other comments on the issues I have raised.
A nation, where one political party more than the other, is trying to undo the union. With all the world, with all that this country faces, all the challenges and threats to survival, one party has given greater evidence of withdrawal into tribalism. Actively promoting the mind numbing and heart betraying notions of group loyalties; of religion against religion, race against race, America against itself.
We need not look too far nor too deep to sense how these tribalism notions are applied to entice voters to react out of fear, instead of act from understanding. In fact, one party more than the other, has been commandeered by those who find the greatest value in Americans ignorance. Yes. Intentionally appealing to the worst in one another. Intentionally keeping perspective here and in the world, truncated, that manipulable “loyalties”, the very ideas that bond a crime syndicate to ignore the law or spiritual realities of higher truth and honor, in order to appropriate for ones own advantage.
These manipulative self interest actively seek to dim understanding of other cultures and beliefs. ( In what comprehensive way, for instance, is the for profit public media actually acting for the public good? Is it good to not question pollutive corporations? Is it good to allow the poor to be essentially ignored, just because they are not big spenders? Is it good to not fully investigate the chronic and other problems continually facing our nation, since it might offend a corporation or powerful individual?) Instead, offering banalities, and us against them mindsets that have a more sinister end than mere divide and conquer, for what is being divided and conquered in the name of racial, economic, or religions supremacy is; the American founding creed.
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America, as it was envisioned, is being strangled from within by some claiming to be saving it. Perhaps more importantly, deconstructed by the perpetuation of stereotypes and unsubstantiated innuendo, an appeal to act out of ignorance masquerading as righteous indignation. This is producing spiritual harm to Americas founding creed of tolerance, pluralism, religious freedom, and the equal nature between citizens emblazoned in the concept of democracy and a free people.
Even to bring up topics such as this, the premise will be twisted into contradiction, as if when you or I might say; “I am intolerant of the intolerant”, means I am actually intolerant, instead of the truth that that statement validates being tolerant of others, except those who would deny the fact. These cognitive trick mind games are now rampant of the right, where critical thinking itself is under relentless attack from pulpits, radio and TV unsuspecting propaganda platforms. Sophistry, demagoguery, jingoism and ad-hominem “connections”, now proudly proclaim the charlatans who stand against full truth in context. Emotion is inserted as lord over reason. Feelings “connecting” assumed dots as proof, instead of facts in whole context.
Highly paid propagandist have been seeding these biased “association” into our public domain for generations, to disable critical thinking abilities, replacing them with attitude, “gut feelings” and so called hunches. These are so much lazier and easier to hold, than the rigors of objective review. Critical thinking itself is demeaned as complex confusion or “Intellectual elitism”, but only for one direction; toward the left. How contemptuous of our God given objective ability for truth detection. We need understand the law of opportunism; that some will take what they can get away with behind any abstractions premise.
America is being dismantled, not by the usual list of subjects dragged out to frighten us into quick action in some direction, but by a problematic lack of perspective. Our national fabric is torn from the inside by ignorance, not to serve this nation, not to put nation first, but to put a predatory mindset in place over our legacy. A new feudalism is forming; corporations are the new feudal lords we serve, not some alien invasion, or a espionage operation from an other country.
We living right here in the United States of America, have become the home of the deceived, who follow those intending to undo “We the People”, which Abraham Lincoln describes so well at the Gettysburg Address. Now, inserted instead, is a reduced concept of “we the people”. One which now means only people who are just like some. To these, freedom, diversity and pluralism, dissent, Americas greatest strengths, are now deemed some insidious plot to deprive others of their right to be. This dissonant cognitive twist of the tongue, has become the cowering ground for right wing ideologues attempting to overthrown the nature of this nation for a manipulative aberrant fantasy, where only one kind of people need be considered worthy.
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We the people are being undone. The investigation into Jack Abramoff has shown the collusion between some religious leaders and government associations manipulating the public good for private gain. The Justice Department scandal has shown the desire within one ideology to purge the nation of its pluralism, its greatest natural strength. The war in Iraq has shown how misinformation has become the “principle” America is forced to operate under for corporate gain and ideological contempt of the Commons.
The campaign now being waged against America is steeped with grand abstract proclamation, and platitudes ad infinitum, yet lacking in respect for reality. With all we face, we are being asked to side with ignorance and blissful conceptual abstraction. Actual solutions to actual endemic problems are called names such as; extreme liberal, or even socialism. Any honest observer should see that we have a very liberal playground for corporations. It is overwhelmingly evident that the wealthy, by the very nature of access, have a socialist system set up for themselves, but covered their “system” in dominator and privileged “merit” and “character” abstractions.
While we all know, that much wealth is merely handed over, and some is made simply by exploitation of the Commons, grand character entitlements to excess are paraded around as an unbridled right to use and discard all one wishes with no thought for the earth or others. Truly a dysfunctional suicidal prescription for megalomaniacs and the misanthropic to take us down into the depths of their mental illness with them.
If you are a rich drug lord, or sold land you uncle gave you, or find a fortune, or steal it outright; you get the best of all medical treatment cause you have the money. Money has no direct relationship to merit. Yet this one party makes it seem like some God given Credit the rest of society has no businesses with, while those same people seek to undermine others from getting the benefits of what they have without becoming just like them.
A wholesome perspective is unnecessary or discouraged by those out to manipulate and use the Commons for their own fiefdoms. It is we who support this very deception that treats them as royalty. But it is always the Whole of Life that picks up the tab. Be it pollution, environmental degradation or societal strife, we all must pay. The Commons cannot actually be ignored, though some claim an inalienable right to do whatever they wish, everyone else mind your own business.
As I wright this, that one more disassociated form reality party’s campaign is promoting disunion and distrust, and all based on nothing but the public ignorance of the truth. Thriving off of ignorance why claiming to be right. Truth is not just thrown out facts, not just selected association, it is full context, or it is not known. We need ask; Why do some of us thrive on half-truth and pre existing ideological bias as the nutrients for our point of view? A nation will not last with this deception careening into the Commons right before our eyes.
Yes. It is delusional. The earth and life are not actually cut up into isolated, completely independent entities. To state the truth of interrelationship and ensuing accountability is called “Class Warfare”, as a propaganda mind control gimmick. To be seduced into serfdom and quietly watch our rights diminish to corporate freedom is considered being “For America”. Those word games now threaten to sink our union as One, We the People”. With no guarantee that that consciousness of common purpose will ever return…
THAT IS NOT FREEDOM. THAT IS NOT SPIRITUALITY. IT IS NOT MERIT. IT IS NOT RESPONSIBILITY. IT IS NOT ACCOUNTABILITY. IT IS OPPORTUNISM. SOMEONES HAVE CREATED A CONTEXT TO SERVE THEMSELVES ABOVE OTHERS, THEN MAKE ANY CHALLENGE TO THEIR OWN SUPREMACY SEEM AGAINST GOD OR NATION. AND THAT IS A BETRAYAL TO WE THE PEOPLE.
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And now there comes this blessed chance. Not that this is not always true; the best in any of us is always inhibited only by our own ignorance of ourselves. We can change history on a dime, just as the Founding Fathers did. A rebirth. That we can change our identity orientation on a dime; just as Christ implored, is a known from the free will proving act of forgiveness. That we can become more united with the Will of Being; just as many religions believe, is a faith born from knowing.
Any Phoenix can rise from the ashes of deconstruction, but it needs more than faith. More than the usual. It requires a will. You and I. We must insist that we can see something new, now. A future of darkness, or of one light can pivot on that one act.
To be true. To be a greater self, than one concerned with our uncertainty. To have a greater identity, than one consumed by the differences we have. To accept union over separation. To be part of all Life, instead of huddling and hoarding from the Whole. To be Whole and reborn.
We the People, are One out of many. A nation can be reborn in anyones one instant.
Like so many of us, he questioned the tone of the McCain Campaign and stated the most obvious of all; That Sarah Palin is not ready to be president if need be.
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We do face an historical moment of unprecedented dimensions. Much residual cultural baggage can be addressed, if not unloaded, while the nations leadership seeks to more fully represent all of who America is. The world too, will need deal with a break in its impression of a rigged American democracy. Yes. Symbols are very powerful ambassadors.
This potential is the great value of the Obama candidacy. And unlike the toxic mix stirring on the right wing, Obama is giving evidence to an administration that will reach across party lines to address intransigent problems needing to be faced head on from the American Commons.
We cannot afford another 8 years of blindfolded inattention. America is not actually the illusion that we are just a nation of and for one kind of people. We are We the People. That is the American light.
They call it “tough” campaigning. Say and allege whatever you want. Get people over to your side any way you can. America is being shoved downward into this low life campaign mentality.
It is done because there is faith that it works. It, is untruth parading as fact.
It seems to come in under the radar as opposing what it is in fact doing. We hear McCain’s camp alleging Obama’s is full of smear, allegation, and highly suspect association, when any observant thinking person, with their heads out of the ideological sand pit, knows which campaign is stooping the lowest by orders of magnitude.
Why is that? Why do certain political interest place generating evil spirits ahead of good, but do that in goods name?
It COUNTS on people who hold allegiance to innuendo and allegation above the rigors of fact. Yet these very accusations are then framed into their own idea of good. Which then just so happens to be the easiest place to misuse misguided trust from; tricking the loyal followers. Once identity bonded to hero figures in a cult, perception of critical thinking abilities are turned away from, or turned off toward your leaders. The blinded follow the blind, or the ones handing out the blindfolds.
We have seen in recent history, how after 9-11-01, fear and insecurity numbs good sense and intellect, opening minds to favor blind following of claims as truth. This trick is only apparent to thinking people however. Partisan operatives are counting on last minute things to effect the election, like suppressing votes*, having the look of “protecting” elections. In the last four years it has been said that less than 100 people have been convicted of vote fraud. (I have a link to information on that at bottom of post.)
Yet we are seeing blind fear created out of stupidity, willing to deprive perhaps hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions of voters a say in this their land of democracy. All ostensibly to protect us from imaginary hordes of; you know, the kinds of people the right wing will say are cheating. The object of the reduce the vote drive is to poison democracy, likely not giving the poor and unfortunate, like troops not returning their “caged” mail, losing the right to vote. Cause a “kind” of person was the actual target of the stop the democracy drive.
FOR THE BLINDED; CLAIM TO BE THE LIGHT
America is under an attack of a contemptuous pro-ignorance following, that is patently anti American. It is anti American, for it seeks to destroy the cords of reality that bind up the Union itself. Those are the common agreements between all citizens. When the truth is kept out of public discourse, deception comes to govern the vacuum left. And that will continue destroying our institutions put in place at the beginning of our nation.
There is a concerted effort underway to create the appearance of truth that is not based on full fact, such as the insidious linguistic tricks being employed on behalf of the fear/smear campaign being imbibed by the right. This is an attack on America and all it stands for. The same cowardly McCarthyism campaign style is beginning to raise its lobotomized, zombie like head. Complete with mob mentality to spread the vile, and leaders saying it is for the nations own good.
It is a sad day in America, as we see the smears and allegations coming out of smiling faces and jokes; as if yours and my life, Americans lives are a joke to play to a crowd, so someone else can win at what will always be our expense.
If you thought that the Bush administration was an assault on all America has stood for at its best. Instead, for ideological goals, it went on to pander to every ill assumption, creating a societal atmospheric context with qualities of mentally illness. It is seeming to have succeeded to some degree, creating a somewhat permanent delusion inside its own party. Hearing the self contradicting expressions coming out of the GOP ticket is shocking to contemplate; who is so off of reality tracking to believe what unsubstantiated claims they are saying? Scary. And that may be the whole point.
This election season, we are seeing perhaps an attempt to make Americans who do not agree with smear and allegation, as being somehow un-American or wrongheaded. There has been an attempt at encouraging relativist perception; where if I say I have no tolerance for intolerance, I would be called intolerant, instead of being for tolerating the freedom to be different. This is quite like the manner of “thinking” now running rampant on the right. Many cling to ideologies for they are too afraid to think for themselves. Unfortunately, it is they who are dragging The Commons down with the nation, while they believe they are saving something; Their ideological dependency addiction.
These perceptual cognitive tricks are quite apparent on the right. Their loyal followers seem honestly not to know how in truth, or nation, or even in Gods name, they can be made to act anti those abstractions, while believing they are upholding those very entities.
What gives away these irrational causes thought to be completely true by some is; the emotionalized ad-hominen “passion” that contradiction will produce in cognitive dissonant disassociation. When people feel out of control, having their insecurities stimulated to perpetuate this feeling, they lash out at what has been given as the target cause of the irritation. This completely misses seeing the very intention to produce just that state in them, by the very people they have chosen to entrust.
May the nation withstand this dangerous mindless threat being formed and fomented within, by those trying to divide and conquer, America. For even if they win, they lose. We all will.
Fortunately tonight, there was a show on PBS that touched some on the election deception ruse going on. That is the link below that guy down the post.
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* Story on Bill Moyers Journal about our voting issues and active threat to democracy. Click on name tag below photo.
In the last few weeks, 28 million copies of a DVD titled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” have been distributed in key battleground states. The film features graphic, violent images and makes comparisons of Islam to Nazism.The DVD comes amidst concerns of increasing levels of ethnic and religious bias in US politics and the stoking of Islamophobia. We speak to Ibrahim Cooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Isabel Macdonald of Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, co-author of the new report “Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation.”
