Ever just get sick of it all?
I am a dyed in the wool Libertarian, and have donated and voted as such for several years now.
I am as non-partisan as a guy can be. I despise both the Republican and Democratic party equally. They're merely two faces to the same monstrous God as far as I am concerned. Shamelessly statist Totalitarians in waiting, ready to burn the world down for their One True Reality.
What scares me more than anything at the moment is that neither party has been moral, honest, fair, truthful or loyal to their principles for a long time. And people still flock to them because they've forgotten how to think for themselves. They crave zealotry, the purity of purpose, the surrendering of free thought.
People are more conformist, stupid, and hateful than ever, and they have no shame about it. They've surrendered to the lure of The Good Fight, where the good and bad guys are color coded and nobody ever has to think for themselves. All you have to do is spread the word and swing the axe-handle for The Cause. It must be nice when you're always right and the other half of the country is always wrong.
In this democratic nation of ours, The Majority is the closest thing to sacrosanct we have. Since one man can no longer effectively enforce his totalitarian will on the people, it is left to many men with one mind to do it on the rest. Instead of allowing a King to oppress the many, we've allowed the Many to oppress the Few. A fine trade.
Thus, the openly stated purpose of either the Reds or the Blues is to seize the Majority (like the sans-culottes storming the Bastille) and inflict their standards on the rest of the population forcibly. Since they are the one true enlightened party and everyone else is monsters and heathens to be subdued at any cost.
Perfection means never having to say you're sorry.
Doesn't that disgust you?
It should.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
I am as non-partisan as a guy can be. I despise both the Republican and Democratic party equally. They're merely two faces to the same monstrous God as far as I am concerned. Shamelessly statist Totalitarians in waiting, ready to burn the world down for their One True Reality.
What scares me more than anything at the moment is that neither party has been moral, honest, fair, truthful or loyal to their principles for a long time. And people still flock to them because they've forgotten how to think for themselves. They crave zealotry, the purity of purpose, the surrendering of free thought.
People are more conformist, stupid, and hateful than ever, and they have no shame about it. They've surrendered to the lure of The Good Fight, where the good and bad guys are color coded and nobody ever has to think for themselves. All you have to do is spread the word and swing the axe-handle for The Cause. It must be nice when you're always right and the other half of the country is always wrong.
In this democratic nation of ours, The Majority is the closest thing to sacrosanct we have. Since one man can no longer effectively enforce his totalitarian will on the people, it is left to many men with one mind to do it on the rest. Instead of allowing a King to oppress the many, we've allowed the Many to oppress the Few. A fine trade.
Thus, the openly stated purpose of either the Reds or the Blues is to seize the Majority (like the sans-culottes storming the Bastille) and inflict their standards on the rest of the population forcibly. Since they are the one true enlightened party and everyone else is monsters and heathens to be subdued at any cost.
Perfection means never having to say you're sorry.
Doesn't that disgust you?
It should.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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It bothers me everyday.
We need a leader to take us out of this in the worst way.
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EVERYTHING in our Government revolves around one policy.....how can they get something out of the US Treasury.
Problem is....what happens when the US Treasury is PERMANENTLY bankrupt?......such as it is now with $9 Trillion of Federal Debt owed to other countries. Then add Trillions of consumer debt owed to foreign countries....and only a few hundred billion dollars in US circulation.
Will historians call the eventual uprisal a Revolutionary...or Civil War?0 -
People are more conformist, stupid, and hateful than ever, and they have no shame about it.
And we get the government we deserve. Really, we do.0 -
quote:Originally posted by HandgunHTR52
There is a really easy way to stop a bunch of the crap in Congress.
Third: Get rid of the party system all together. Make each candidate run based on his/her own topics, not the ones that are fed to them by their parties. Now, I realize that some will actually fall in line with one another, but instead of getting "weeded" out during the primaries, everyone would have to choose a candidate that most fits their ideals. If that means there are 200 names on a ballot, so be it.
...I've always advocated that solution, however there's one problem with it. $money$ Money gets your name on TV and in the papers. Out of those 200 names on the ballot, 195 will be unknown to the average voter in the booth. I don't claim to know how to level the field, but I'm sure open to ideas.0
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