I think you do sugar coat it. The root is that people have lost the desire to throw proper rants and protest and boycott when they know that their being lied to. The majority of people do not want someone in office that will tell them the truth, they want them to get out the little box of talcum powder with the puff and gently pat some sweet smelling powder on them so that they will look, smell, and feel, good. And then wonder why they feel so bad and ask why things are not working right.
Because they can’t do anything for themselves and now don’t want to do anything for themselves.
I was appalled and dismayed when right after Katrina People who were stuck, could not figure out how to get themselves out of the mess. Instead resorted to shooting at the rescue helicopters because they weren’t coming to save them. How spoiled and barbaric could they have gotten. No greater witness to the core attitude of America could have been given.
In another day and time most of those people who were trapped would have gotten ingenious and saved themselves. Waiting on a suddenly overmatched government to spin up its gears killed an untold number of people who did not have to die.
People have taken to they would rather be lied to and they vote accordingly. We as Americans have even become resigned to the fact that all politicians are liars and that we can do nothing to change that. Too bad. We have lost our objective ability to elect politicians who would not lie to us on a daily basis.
What would it take to change that? What would it take to make politicians take a more straight forward attitude twards governing? Today I think we need to be invaded and win that fight in order to straighten out people so that when the people elect a person to represent them they will get properly incensed enough to hold politicians feet to the fire and DO what they said they were going to do. Voting for people who say what they mean and mean what they say. People whose word is bedrock, something that you could build something on.
But no we have to vote for; as my friend T.F.Stern says, are like our “high school presidents”, running a popularity contest. Nice guys. Nice guys are so vain that all it takes is to convince them that they could be rejected by people; if they don’t do whatever the people who are trying to convince them to do.
A politician needs to know with every fiber of his being that his personal acceptance is the last thing to worry about.
Obama is of course exemplifying this; but it is just like I said to my wife, electing the democrats is gonna be like throwing gasoline on a fire trying to put it out.
Our economy tanked and we keep getting lied to while the government prints money trying to cover up its stupidity. There is already too much U.S. currency on the world markets. There has been for decades now. Too bad. It is just paper and in no wise reflect’s true value. The piper is going to come to call and I don’t believe for a minute that it won’t be bloody. I really think this great land of our is going to have to re-earn its freedom by covering it with the our blood and the blood of our enemies. I really do know we will win this fight, but this time we are not going to be fighting for mammon. We will be fighting for our lives. I say bring it on.
That about covers the idea, thanks.