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Many political posts are initiated by people who believe that it's mostly politics that divides us in our thinking. I don't believe this is necessarily so.
Once one gets accustomed to the good life, there's no voluntarily going back to leaner living. Why are "conserving", "cutting back", and "doing with less" such painful prospects for Americans in the age of rapidly diminished resources - even if it threatens our very existence? Look at human nature, "enough" is never enough. Co-existing in these times requires more cooperation than ever before, but is it happening better than ever before? There aren't many Mahatma Gandhi's born into this world. People need to keep in mind that the Reverend Martin Luther King looked to Gandhi's writings for direction and inspiration every bit as much as his Christian faith. Christianity? If you really want to read about a humanistic faith without the parallel history of hypocrisy and atrocity associated with same, check out the religion of Jainism. It may be educational at least in your religious conversations.
The political affluent will create a "of the people" facade here and there to sedate the mainstream voters, but I believe they are more differentiated from most Americans by their wealth than by their party affiliation. People talk about how far we've come as a country to elect a "person of color" or a woman. As absurd as this is for what should have been accepted long ago, consider the probability of Americans electing a agnostic or atheist as president? Before that ever happens you can bet we'll all be cowering from radioactive fallout. I believe today we are more divided by economics than we are by other factors such as religion, or the amount of melanin in our skin.
Last edited by Ria Rhodes; 08-26-2008 at 09:37 AM..
Many political posts are initiated by people who believe that it's mostly politics that divides us in our thinking. I don't believe this is necessarily so.
Once one gets accustomed to the good life, there's no voluntarily going back to leaner living. Why are "conserving", "cutting back", and "doing with less" such painful prospects for Americans in the age of rapidly diminished resources - even if it threatens our very existence? Look at human nature, "enough" is never enough. Co-existing in these times requires more cooperation than ever before, but is it happening better than ever before? There aren't many Mahatma Gandhi's born into this world. People need to keep in mind that the Reverend Martin Luther King looked to Gandhi's writings for direction and inspiration every bit as much as his Christian faith. Christianity? If you really want to read about a humanistic faith without the parallel history of hypocrisy and atrocity associated with same, check out the religion of Jainism. It may be educational at least in your religious conversations.
The political affluent will create a "of the people" facade here and there to sedate the mainstream voters, but I believe they are more differentiated from most Americans by their wealth than by their party affiliation. People talk about how far we've come as a country to elect a "person of color" or a woman. As absurd as this is for what should have been accepted long ago, consider the probability of Americans electing a agnostic or atheist as president? Before that ever happens you can bet we'll all be cowering from radioactive fallout. I believe today we are more divided by economics than we are by other factors such as religion, or the amount of melanin in our skin.
I really don't know what your point is. But your prescription for what ails America is standard left wing claptrap: we've got to cut back. You and your ilk won't be happy until we're all ridng horses and buggies again. But you'll notice that the beautiful people who want to reduce our standard of living never swallow the medicine they prescribe for everyone else. I didn't see anyone comment on this but I couldn't help notice that when Obama wanted Biden to appear with him in Springfield Saturday he dispatched a private plane to fetch him. Now that's really cutting back! But then the liberal elite always have a good reason for why they can rape the planet.
I'm glad for the partisanship. Americans have let the right wing run all over them for last 3 decades. They are only now starting to wake up.
The Dems stand with the majority of Americans on almost every single issue including continuing the public funding of Social Security, ending the War in Iraq, pro abortion rights, continued funding of public education and medicare. Making the wealthy pay more of the Federal budget. They want the Gvt protectioning our food and the air we breath. Paying people at least a liveable minimum wage.
About the only thing I can think of that GOPers with the majority is stopping illegal immigration which would benefit the middle class.
Other than that, don't compromise with these right wing kooks. Just vote them out of office.
Last edited by padcrasher; 08-26-2008 at 11:08 AM..
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