Day: July 1, 2011

Confidence Lost

Back and forth….back and forth……the jibes go back and forth……Repubs try to make their campaign points and then the Dems counter….back and forth……Really people…..It is ALL a game……we NO longer have people who govern we have politicians who are campaigning…..from day one it is about the next election…..

I am convinced that we elect people that are NOT capable of running the country….they are very well adapting to running and campaigning….but governance escapes them completely……I use to say we are governed by idiots….I was mistaken…..we are governed by the incompetent…..

Just look at the debt thing……..it is all talking points and campaign slogans….not one bit of actual governance…..All 535 representatives are incompetent……sad thing is this will NOT change and since it will not change…..our beloved democracy is in trouble and will most likely disappear….and then we can thank the incompetent fools we have elected to run our country…..silliness and absurdity have replaced common sense and good governance…..and these twits are proud of what they are doing to this country….and yet YOU keep voting them into office…..WHY?

Here is an idea…..you want to settle the debt thing once and for all?  Go to the US Constitution……Amendment 14 Section 4:

4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Invoke the Constitution and move on!

But NOPE!  We had rather have these people argue over completely stupid stuff instead of working on the real problems facing the country…….Re-election is far more important than the health of the country….Right?  It is more important on what games the children play or who is allowed to marry or who does what with their body…..the ship of state is sinking and democracy is being replaced by a single individual that can dictate policy to the government…….and that person is NOT even an elected official but rather some civilian that wields more power than the Speaker of the House….

The country is burning while the people fiddle……….ALL confidence has been LOST!

The only way to regain the confidence is to get rid of ALL the politicians at one time and start over….it is time for the people to once again  become the most important part of governance…..silly games are over!  And even sillier politicians need to be outlawed……we need confidence where there is none…..we need statesmen once again and NOT absurd politicians…..

Are You Afraid Of The Dark?

I have been writing about the use of fear as a political weapon for some time now…how it can be used to win elections, even the presidency…..and how it used to keep the American people ignorant of facts….look at the current economic slowdown….here in the US we are told by pundits that if we do not cut taxes then we could be the next Greece…..that could possibly be true, but NO one knows for sure….however it is used to get concessions on the political road……

The “Dark” I have in my title is the tactic of terror….and this is also a tool for political gain….from economic policy to foreign policy…..but what is all this use of “fear” and “terror” doing to the American public?  What is it doing to the world?

Indeed, politicians have known for thousands of years that playing the fear card gives them more power and makes their subjects more compliant:

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
– Plato

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
– U.S. President James Madison

“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.
– Adolph Hitler

“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
– Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.

“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”.
– Josef Stalin

But do we have cause to be afraid?

National Safety Council notes:

– You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

– You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack

– You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

– You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack

–You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack

– You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack

– You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack

–You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack

–You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack

–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist

–You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack

– You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack

With all that said…..we Americans are still afraid of the dark and anytime someone tries to dissuade people from their fear, then they labelled and condemned….ignorance is fear’s best friend!  For fear cannot exist without ignorance……….therefore ignorance must be cultivated for fear to live on.

Personally, I refuse to succumb to fear and will definite NOT let ignorance win the day……but then…I can read a book!