I'm going to post this as a political rant, not an attack so don't take any of it personally.
I am sick of ultra-Conservatives! I'm not talking about the "work hard and take your family" types. I mean, the extreme worst of the worst, short of nationalistic dictators like Hitler.
The old belief in my family is that you hit first and you hit hard if/when you see a threat coming. You don't give your opponent the benefit of doubt or let them land the first blow. More and more over my adult life, I'm favoring this approach to politics as well.
When the "Liberals" dislike something you get protests, sit-ins, camp-outs and marches; general civil disobedience. When the "Conservatives" protest, you get threats and proactive measures of unrest - legal action, impeachments, etc. Which one, does common sense tell you, presents a bigger threat to a group of people? Tea-Partiers get to sit there and wage their verbal wars, marching on whomever they want, while Occupy Wall Streeters get forcibly vacated form public parks... see a bias here?
If it doesn't look like we're in a civil war of any kind, it's because the Conservative regime has stripped away the possibility for the Liberal side to wage a war (in terms of non-violence that is). The true Liberals in the country were "removed" from influence shortly after WWII. The muckraker journalists exposing unethical and harmful industries, the artists inspiring people to stand up for themselves and the politicians calling for more power being given to the people - McCarthyism destroyed them and along with them, that whole movement. If you even looked Liberal, you were declared a Communist and blacklisted form society.
People complain about the "Liberal Media". It's anything but Liberal. It's another example of how and where that war's already been waged. These reporters aren't going undercover and exposing business practices that harm people. They aren't raising questions about our government. They're fed information the government wants to feed them - the entire Iraq War was a media joke. The government set up rooms for them, conferences with them and videos to give them. These weren't Vietnam era reporters risking their lives in the field and showing gruesome images that might actually change public opinion about our government's actions.
Here's a note for all the Conservatives out there - WE ARE NOT LIBERALS. The USA is as far right on the political scale as you get damn near go! Any view... and I mean, any view that differs is going to be more liberal simply by default. Our politics have become a laughing stock to most modern countries - our workers have no rights, our people have no healthcare and for all the geeks out there, even our "high speed" communications system is sub-par (I worked in that field, I still receive the trade journals). What we call a "Liberal" the rest of the world would just call a little less conservative.
During the 19th and early 20th century, Republicans actually stood for and accomplished some incredible, long-lasting things: Lincoln, unified a country and freed slaves, Roosevelt established hundreds of National Parks, Monuments and promoted our natural beauty of the country. No one can argue their accomplishments. Since those days following WWII though, the majority of Presidents and politicians in our country have been the more modern-day version of Republican.
What happened?
We lost the other side. The "Devil's Advocate", the Yin that goes with the Yang. The other voice that was supposed to be incorporated in the system of Checks and Balances in our country. It's gone. We have the ultra-Conservatives, guiding the Conservatives with the not-as-conservative Conservatives in tow.
The Liberals have been benched and removed of any position that would provide a voice.
You think Obama is a "Liberal"? Really? He came form, worked through and grew up in the Conservative system. He didn't make waves, cause trouble or be branded a Communist. He received corporate sponsorships, that feed off the Conservative values. Do people honestly think any politician we elect into office can ever change the system in a positive way?
We've moved so far to the right end of the spectrum, we'd need Karl Marx himself to hold office in this country to even make a dent in our political structure!
We're at a point where the next global superpower moving up the ladder is a Communist country. So tell me, you think our Conservative, All-American agenda for the past 60 or so years has been a good thing???
I'm moving to Canada... :canada:
I am sick of ultra-Conservatives! I'm not talking about the "work hard and take your family" types. I mean, the extreme worst of the worst, short of nationalistic dictators like Hitler.
The old belief in my family is that you hit first and you hit hard if/when you see a threat coming. You don't give your opponent the benefit of doubt or let them land the first blow. More and more over my adult life, I'm favoring this approach to politics as well.
When the "Liberals" dislike something you get protests, sit-ins, camp-outs and marches; general civil disobedience. When the "Conservatives" protest, you get threats and proactive measures of unrest - legal action, impeachments, etc. Which one, does common sense tell you, presents a bigger threat to a group of people? Tea-Partiers get to sit there and wage their verbal wars, marching on whomever they want, while Occupy Wall Streeters get forcibly vacated form public parks... see a bias here?
If it doesn't look like we're in a civil war of any kind, it's because the Conservative regime has stripped away the possibility for the Liberal side to wage a war (in terms of non-violence that is). The true Liberals in the country were "removed" from influence shortly after WWII. The muckraker journalists exposing unethical and harmful industries, the artists inspiring people to stand up for themselves and the politicians calling for more power being given to the people - McCarthyism destroyed them and along with them, that whole movement. If you even looked Liberal, you were declared a Communist and blacklisted form society.
People complain about the "Liberal Media". It's anything but Liberal. It's another example of how and where that war's already been waged. These reporters aren't going undercover and exposing business practices that harm people. They aren't raising questions about our government. They're fed information the government wants to feed them - the entire Iraq War was a media joke. The government set up rooms for them, conferences with them and videos to give them. These weren't Vietnam era reporters risking their lives in the field and showing gruesome images that might actually change public opinion about our government's actions.
Here's a note for all the Conservatives out there - WE ARE NOT LIBERALS. The USA is as far right on the political scale as you get damn near go! Any view... and I mean, any view that differs is going to be more liberal simply by default. Our politics have become a laughing stock to most modern countries - our workers have no rights, our people have no healthcare and for all the geeks out there, even our "high speed" communications system is sub-par (I worked in that field, I still receive the trade journals). What we call a "Liberal" the rest of the world would just call a little less conservative.
During the 19th and early 20th century, Republicans actually stood for and accomplished some incredible, long-lasting things: Lincoln, unified a country and freed slaves, Roosevelt established hundreds of National Parks, Monuments and promoted our natural beauty of the country. No one can argue their accomplishments. Since those days following WWII though, the majority of Presidents and politicians in our country have been the more modern-day version of Republican.
What happened?
We lost the other side. The "Devil's Advocate", the Yin that goes with the Yang. The other voice that was supposed to be incorporated in the system of Checks and Balances in our country. It's gone. We have the ultra-Conservatives, guiding the Conservatives with the not-as-conservative Conservatives in tow.
The Liberals have been benched and removed of any position that would provide a voice.
You think Obama is a "Liberal"? Really? He came form, worked through and grew up in the Conservative system. He didn't make waves, cause trouble or be branded a Communist. He received corporate sponsorships, that feed off the Conservative values. Do people honestly think any politician we elect into office can ever change the system in a positive way?
We've moved so far to the right end of the spectrum, we'd need Karl Marx himself to hold office in this country to even make a dent in our political structure!
We're at a point where the next global superpower moving up the ladder is a Communist country. So tell me, you think our Conservative, All-American agenda for the past 60 or so years has been a good thing???
I'm moving to Canada... :canada:
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