BillyB Wrote:Now this is something that all Americans should be outraged about.
I'm proud of you BillyB. That is the essence of self governance. Rational folks of all stripes standing up against the self serving, arrogant abuses of those in government that suppose themselves to be privileged. If Americans would only recognize the power and privilege that
COULD be brought to bear on the Washington Elite by holding them accountable in the voting booth we would all be better off. Presidents, Senators and Representatives wouldn't dare risk the ire of the electorate. Honesty would again prevail in Hallowed Halls and consequently, our quality of life baseline would go straight up the bar chart.
This is what I have been saying. We voters, that see each other every day out on the job and socially have been divided politically by the politicos that imagine us as sheep to be led and, (shorn each year by the IRS) are equal under the constitution and, one never sees the confict in everyday life. It takes some extemist to incite folks to anger at one another. You look at the contemptable rhetoric that spews out of the mouth of Obama, the fallen Anthony Weiner, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Chuck Schumer, et- al. Now honestly, they totally hate republicans and, they've got their base hating republicans. They mock Christians and anything and anybody that would dare to assiciate themselves with the Tea Party. I'm telling you it's BLIND HATRED.
I'm not going to play their game. I'll give the facts and point out lies and injustice to the best of my ability but, I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't hate dems. I just disagree with their policies. When I was in grade school and I got into an argument on the playground I might have gotten into a fight with another little boy about whose dad was the strongest or whether the Boston Red Sox were better than the Yankees, but, as I grew up I learned to respect other folks. I'm saying the war of words though comparable to something as benign as playground antics, can divide a nation when those fighting are adults. Ask veterans of a foriegn war who have stood shoulder to shoulder with their buddies against the enemy in combat and see if they hate democrats or republicans. Stupidest thing I've ever heard. And during my lifetime this mindless mutual destruction is a phenomenum that really just arrived on scene.
In my mind, this hate laced secularism is a product of those who have never paid the price of admission by way of sacrifice militarily or via any other discipline other than the dubious ascention to self imagined Godhood through some ego-stoking run for public office. It's just like the case of the lad who inherits his father's business and fortune. Having gone off to college, returns an educated full fledged party animal, ready to take his place at the helm of the family business. Most of the time, after only a few years, the company lies in ruins and the fortune is wasted. The conventional wisdom for the cause of this oft and old story is attributed to this fact; the father loved and nutured his business his whole life and cared for it diligently, the son, on the other hand, paid no price or discilpine for it and thus, was not particularly driven to sacrifice enough of himself to care for it and, consequently, would not put forth the effort needed to ensure the family company's continued well being. If these guys/gals in the service of the people of the United States had any appreciable integrity and love of country they would never incite the divide that is tearing the American public apart. Most average folks just can't accept that the party of their fathers would lie to them. So, these politicians, being the undisciplined anarchists they are, enflame their base with all manner of accusation and blame against their political foes.
The contempt on dispay in congress surely bears out my observations. I can't get past the reality of the moment. Speaking of the perpetual jousting and character assassination between the dems and the republicans, if members of the Congress of the United States actually did love this country, how could they possibly hate half of government? It really doesn't take a genious to figure this stuff out. In a nutshell:
"A HOUSE DIVDIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND" note, quote paraphrased slightly from the King James Version. The wisdom of the ages, sublimely succinct, and, certainly applicable in the purest sense to us in this day.
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