While you were busy fighting, thieves stole America
I've suggested divisive infighting has been a useful distraction that enables corporatism. Much evidence of that in social conversations I read on facebook.
There's plenty of common ground among the wage earners, but folks in the cheap seats are paired into political and social subsets, provoked to attack each other instead of directing their energy at restraining Washington.
We're the useful idiots perpetuating the crime by doing...nothing but bickering and name-calling.
The political parties have become bastardized versions of their former selves, directed by operatives who have but one common interest: to suck from the enormous teet of the federal government.
OWS and Teaparty movements are symptomatic of common unrest by the populous, yet the perception is sold to us that their forces oppose one another.
Seeing a thread here?
We're never allowed to forget the fights. The black/white issue keeps popping up in the media. But ask yourself who is advancing these conversations. It's either those on the dole or unwitting shills for said cause.
You know the message permeates the American psychie when the talking points of group X are exalted in man-on-the-street stand-ups.
I don't know who's responsible for provoking, nor would it be useful to argue over it, but I do know the left-right, black-white, rich-poor battles are playing out in all forms of TV, talk radio, blogosphere and social media.
Whether the ones we see on TV have anything to gain personally is less important than transcending the rhetoric altogether and working as a people in this and every election, firing incumbants of all stripes until Washington is rid of the bug that sucks the life blood from this republic.
We can break down immorality into its most basic form by relating it to something as primal as suffering, something most of us can relate to on varying levels and degrees.
Abortion is subject usually presented as a polar issue, either hard-left or hard-right position. But attitudes change when you present it this way: "How about an abortion today?" In its most basic form, no one wants one or thinks it's a suffer-free zone. From that common ground, we can begin a thoughtful conversation.
There's plenty of common ground among the wage earners, but folks in the cheap seats are paired into political and social subsets, provoked to attack each other instead of directing their energy at restraining Washington.
We're the useful idiots perpetuating the crime by doing...nothing but bickering and name-calling.
The political parties have become bastardized versions of their former selves, directed by operatives who have but one common interest: to suck from the enormous teet of the federal government.
OWS and Teaparty movements are symptomatic of common unrest by the populous, yet the perception is sold to us that their forces oppose one another.
Seeing a thread here?
We're never allowed to forget the fights. The black/white issue keeps popping up in the media. But ask yourself who is advancing these conversations. It's either those on the dole or unwitting shills for said cause.
You know the message permeates the American psychie when the talking points of group X are exalted in man-on-the-street stand-ups.
I don't know who's responsible for provoking, nor would it be useful to argue over it, but I do know the left-right, black-white, rich-poor battles are playing out in all forms of TV, talk radio, blogosphere and social media.
Whether the ones we see on TV have anything to gain personally is less important than transcending the rhetoric altogether and working as a people in this and every election, firing incumbants of all stripes until Washington is rid of the bug that sucks the life blood from this republic.
We can break down immorality into its most basic form by relating it to something as primal as suffering, something most of us can relate to on varying levels and degrees.
Abortion is subject usually presented as a polar issue, either hard-left or hard-right position. But attitudes change when you present it this way: "How about an abortion today?" In its most basic form, no one wants one or thinks it's a suffer-free zone. From that common ground, we can begin a thoughtful conversation.
