Our elected officials may appear to be acting like babies, but they are playing some very adult games. Nevertheless, I agree they are behaving badly. Admittedly, nothing seems to make much sense right now, eh? Anytime something makes absolutely no sense, look for the money trail.
Take old Holy Joe Lieberman, who says he is only following his conscious, just for an example. He's from the great state of Connecticut where Aetna is head quartered. He has received some major cash from them over the years. It's not just him. Follow the money.
OMG, you poor thing! People should never, ever be raised as a Republican or a Democrat. People should be raised to think for themselves. The two major parties have changed, in major ways, a number of times over the years and, even given the lock-step marching of the Republicans as of late, I imagine they will change again. Also, over the years we have seen many instances of the two major political parties not being representative of their so-called base, just as we are now.
Some say that the answer is in the European model in which there are a number of viable parties who stand candidates for elections and win seats in whatever body functions for them as our Congress does for us, or should.
It would be more honest, would it not? There could be the Christian Republicans, the Christian Democrats, The Green Party, the American Likud Party (for Neocons and others who like their various manifestos), Conservative Democrats, Conservative Republicans.
We could have the propertarian Libertarians and the non-propertarian Libertarians (or we could put them all in the same Libertarian Party and allow then to fight out the property issue in-house.
There could also be the Liberal Democrats and the Progressives, in the same or different parties. If there are still any liberals Republicans, they are so far underground by now I doubt any would come out to vote let alone form a political party.
We could have the Corporatist Party. That was tried years ago by Benito Mussolini. He called his party "Fascist" and said that it was the same as corporatism. Wonder how many votes they would get in 2010?
If people are "true believers" in the Communist Manifesto, they should be honest about it and call themselves the Communist Party. People like Bernie Sanders should be able to call himself a Socialist Democrat and have a party he can call his own.
I like the idea that members of congress, both chambers, would actually have to talk to one another to get things done.
The sad thing is, however, no matter what else we do, if we do not demand publicly funded elections, the same problems will prevail.
I don't know about you, but I have never looked to Washington for examples of good behavior, let alone selfless, courageous, moral or Right Action. Yes, there have been examples of it but they are far too rare.
Parents, however, can surely use the over-paid, over-insured, puppets of corporations, for whom we may or may not have voted, as examples of why we should all think for ourselves and demand publicly funding of elections in the U.S.
It is never too early for a little American to learn that a government such as ours cannot be left on automatic pilot between presidential election years. A liberal democracy, which is what G.W. Bush said we were pushing in the Middle East, cannot function without good, reliable information based on fact getting to the voters, mass involvement in electoral politics (meaning vote, at the least) every two years or more often if necessary.
Americans simply must learn to pay attention. Paying attention means having more than one news source on television, on the Internet and in the printed press.
It seems to me that, depending on the age of your kids, this nightmarish time could provide a great teaching opportunity.
It sounds like you are wondering why we all can't just get along, for Pete's sake. I can relate.
The reason we can't just all get along and get something done about our long broken healthcare system is the same reason that kept us at each other's throats for a very long time now. The government and the two major political parties and quite a few issue organizations have become quite efficient at manipulating us with deceit and fear-mongering, among other things.
Examples:
1)Saddam is going to spray Small Pox all over the eastern seaboard of the U.S./ give a suitcase-nuke, made with Iraq's "newly re-constituted nuclear arms program" to Osama bin Laden or some Al Qaeda character, since the secular Sunni Saddam is such good friends with the hyper-religious, fatwa slinging, phony,holy man, from some really out-there religious cult known as Wahhabism, Osama bin Laden.
2) Health care reform under Barack Obama and a democratic Congress is the biggest threat to freedom in anyone's memory; yes, bigger than 9/11 type terrorism, the old Soviet Union and Hitler, for that matter. (Obama is Hitler? Or is he Stalin or Pol Pot? I get confused.) Health care reform will be the absolute downfall of the nation. The flag is falling and we are all going to die.
There are two examples of how people are manipulated with deceit used to fear-monger to a vulnerable crowd, whip up wrathful desires for vengeance and in every other way possible, appeal to the reptilian brains of the masses. Of course, it is not always that obvious, but it is pretty damned obvious more often than it used to be.
Some of the statements made by elected officials these days are nothing short of jaw dropping.
The facts paint a very different picture, do they not?
The all-or-nothing crowd are the "authoritarians". They are mostly found in the GOP but not exclusively by a long shot.
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