If you are looking at personalities, I agree that it is sad that this seems to be the best a country such as ours has to offer its people. I sat stunned( but not really as I expected no better) after the debates thinking the above thought. Politics, afterall is the dirtiest of dirty business...has been since mankind submitted to being ruled by others..however. our country has If not better than most, at least has been good at offering us a better facade than most and whatever has gone before, it has worked better for most of us than most countries have offered its citizenry. Unlike you, however, I do feel, having watched outcomes for the last 15 years or so, we are at some sort of flipping point. And perhaps being one of your said to be sheople( I made the 1st sheople in my business almost 40 years ago...By the way..the Ewe knitting " herself" as it were, a sweater, and the Ram reading the Wool Street Journal) so, yes, a sheople I most assuredly am, and I will always look to smaller government, a better chance at small units of self rule, and more independence from rules made by others to cast with my vote a prayer for greater control over my own life. I have faith that, given the chance, the people , as a whole will generally( not always, but generally) do that which most insures their personal autonomy. To see a push toward a "big brother is watching" society as there exists in China, to cringe at the inevitable destruction of cash for the more convenient tap of the phone purchase and with it total control over our individual financial lives,or watch the lunacy surrounding " climate
change"agendas, to watch this fills me with horror at the use of fear and convenience to control populations. I , then, must become one of the sheep you detest and then be forced to put aside personalities and vote for agendas that at least make sense to me, those that look as though they are more likely to allow my sons and grandsons at least more hope of living a life such as I have been blessed to live. Any party promising a lighter push toward more and more control over our lives and an ability to live freer than most humans have lived throughout time, where we at least have the hope that we can criticize our government without censorship or worse,...that party, though subject to powerful banks, corporations and all the big naughties that exist in the world of big..that party that at least gives lip service along with some evidence of holding to these things I hold to, Will get my vote. Governments, as they say, should exist to offer opportunities, not ensure unearned outcomes! And then, there is the hate that is used to bring " joy" to a country so divided...to think that murder can bring joy??? Ok, if there was any doubt, perhaps it was that that sealed the deal for a sheep such as I!
Great stuff, Steven. However, you need to go even further and ask the question how the Fraud called THE USA which pretends to be the bastion of Freedom and Democracy be so deluded that your presidents apart from Carter, are/were deranged, war-mongering mass murdering lunatics? In other words, what does this tell you about the people who call themselves 'Americans'? In other words, it hath always been so...
If you are looking at personalities, I agree that it is sad that this seems to be the best a country such as ours has to offer its people. I sat stunned( but not really as I expected no better) after the debates thinking the above thought. Politics, afterall is the dirtiest of dirty business...has been since mankind submitted to being ruled by others..however. our country has If not better than most, at least has been good at offering us a better facade than most and whatever has gone before, it has worked better for most of us than most countries have offered its citizenry. Unlike you, however, I do feel, having watched outcomes for the last 15 years or so, we are at some sort of flipping point. And perhaps being one of your said to be sheople( I made the 1st sheople in my business almost 40 years ago...By the way..the Ewe knitting " herself" as it were, a sweater, and the Ram reading the Wool Street Journal) so, yes, a sheople I most assuredly am, and I will always look to smaller government, a better chance at small units of self rule, and more independence from rules made by others to cast with my vote a prayer for greater control over my own life. I have faith that, given the chance, the people , as a whole will generally( not always, but generally) do that which most insures their personal autonomy. To see a push toward a "big brother is watching" society as there exists in China, to cringe at the inevitable destruction of cash for the more convenient tap of the phone purchase and with it total control over our individual financial lives,or watch the lunacy surrounding " climate
change"agendas, to watch this fills me with horror at the use of fear and convenience to control populations. I , then, must become one of the sheep you detest and then be forced to put aside personalities and vote for agendas that at least make sense to me, those that look as though they are more likely to allow my sons and grandsons at least more hope of living a life such as I have been blessed to live. Any party promising a lighter push toward more and more control over our lives and an ability to live freer than most humans have lived throughout time, where we at least have the hope that we can criticize our government without censorship or worse,...that party, though subject to powerful banks, corporations and all the big naughties that exist in the world of big..that party that at least gives lip service along with some evidence of holding to these things I hold to, Will get my vote. Governments, as they say, should exist to offer opportunities, not ensure unearned outcomes! And then, there is the hate that is used to bring " joy" to a country so divided...to think that murder can bring joy??? Ok, if there was any doubt, perhaps it was that that sealed the deal for a sheep such as I!
You write so well. Steve. I appreciate your thoughts...always
Great stuff, Steven. However, you need to go even further and ask the question how the Fraud called THE USA which pretends to be the bastion of Freedom and Democracy be so deluded that your presidents apart from Carter, are/were deranged, war-mongering mass murdering lunatics? In other words, what does this tell you about the people who call themselves 'Americans'? In other words, it hath always been so...