another short political rant:
IT SEEMS THAT THE POLITICAL THEATER AND DOUBLE-TALK...
IT SEEMS THAT THE POLITICAL THEATER AND DOUBLE-TALK...
OF THE NEWLY ELECTED REPUBLICANS HAS ALREADY BEGUN. I believe that it was Groucho Marx who once said: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. With this in mind, let us have a peek at our newly elected Congress: Prior to even being sworn-into office, the league of political newbies have joined hands with the rather ancient oldies in order to institute a plan to deregulate Wall Street, help aide big business in downgrading hours for the employees of big the box stores like Walmart and Lowe's who will no longer be eligible to participate in the Affordable Care Act; and then have the cheekiness to compound all of that by attempting to put an ax into the knees of Social Security without so much as a blink-of-a-political-eye.
If we have come to understand one terrible truth it is this: for all underclass Americans, life in the United States will become infinitely worse than it already is, as we continue along the present path into becoming a Third World country within the borders of a First Class nation.
We are the ones who have allowed this to happen, only because we didn't seem to care much. We sat back and watched our politicians with their faces flushed, mouths contorted, as they split the damp air with slogans so abhorrent that they ought to have automatically deleted from memory as the double-dealers they actually were. What chance do we have with people like this in office? How can we deal with those who desperately want only to kill foreigners with icy dispatch, and forget about the nation they happen to reside in? Why are we not finding solutions to the problems of immigration and women being sexually- assaulted in the workplace and the poor and disabled and the guys with hyphens in their names who are living below poverty level? If this goes on, escalating by the hour, our country is doomed.
We have already succumbed to our own jagged forms of tribalism as we have become a nation filled with black-versus-white, a country who no longer welcome or absorb new arrivals, reduced all discourse to the most primitive level in order to use naked power to get our way; and above all else, sold our souls for comfort and ease, because we now have become citizens too lazy to think for ourselves, allowing our politicians to come at us like the slow seepage of water, who only give us unrepaired fractures to our present society and instability for our future needs. The politicians, who cheer for intervention in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and the rest of the Persian Gulf, suddenly develop the white wings of doves when it comes to the repair of their own country.
Or as another famous man once said:
Experience hath shown , that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
If we have come to understand one terrible truth it is this: for all underclass Americans, life in the United States will become infinitely worse than it already is, as we continue along the present path into becoming a Third World country within the borders of a First Class nation.
We are the ones who have allowed this to happen, only because we didn't seem to care much. We sat back and watched our politicians with their faces flushed, mouths contorted, as they split the damp air with slogans so abhorrent that they ought to have automatically deleted from memory as the double-dealers they actually were. What chance do we have with people like this in office? How can we deal with those who desperately want only to kill foreigners with icy dispatch, and forget about the nation they happen to reside in? Why are we not finding solutions to the problems of immigration and women being sexually- assaulted in the workplace and the poor and disabled and the guys with hyphens in their names who are living below poverty level? If this goes on, escalating by the hour, our country is doomed.
We have already succumbed to our own jagged forms of tribalism as we have become a nation filled with black-versus-white, a country who no longer welcome or absorb new arrivals, reduced all discourse to the most primitive level in order to use naked power to get our way; and above all else, sold our souls for comfort and ease, because we now have become citizens too lazy to think for ourselves, allowing our politicians to come at us like the slow seepage of water, who only give us unrepaired fractures to our present society and instability for our future needs. The politicians, who cheer for intervention in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and the rest of the Persian Gulf, suddenly develop the white wings of doves when it comes to the repair of their own country.
Or as another famous man once said:
Experience hath shown , that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
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