i admit, I'm still a bit of a late night news junkie - at one point, about twenty years ago, i either had to rid myself of the TV or do an Elvis on it ... I've improved with a reasonable amount of discipline and sometimes by simply turning the volume off and watching the people - particularly the politicians caught in the crossfire of partisanship - some of these guys give me the creeps in the same way as when i had long hair in the 60's and would wonder into the wrong place or the wrong town ... my antennae picks up the weirdness, and its been a great survival tool ...
so i look at some of these pasty skinned, paunchy, snake-eyed, smiling through their teeth politicians who probably haven't had to do a hard days labor their entire life - and wonder how it is that they've become the representatives for the majority of people in this country ...
i know the real answers, but i can crank up the cynicism - especially when i feel I'm being deceived - and i do, even without the sound ...
so far, I've had a lifetime of depreciating faith in these guys - most of whom i see as manipulative scoundrels and the rest as evil, self-centered and hypocritical bigots; and of course, it's the later I'm compelled to appraise ... because someone once said: "know thy enemy" ... [i know how the rest of the quote reads, so please forgive my indulgence] ...
history affords us hindsight, so it's easier to understand at a distance what happened during McCarthyism, the civil rights, woman's rights, hippies, and the peace movement, etc. - but being there and living through it was more than a bit confusing and scary at times, to say the least ...
so it makes me wonder what "IT" is right now, as i watch these caricatures of responsible government weave us into some web of futile misinformation - for instance, what would happen to the G.O.P.'s chance at elections if they lose the support of campaign contributions from affiliations with the health care industry - they've already been publicly accused of "being a wholly owned subsidiary" - without denial i might add - and if they prolong passage of the health care reform bill till mid-term elections, they at least have a fighting chance to capture some money and seats while riling up angry mobs in charades of opposition to reform ...
what depth of mean-spirited-ness are these shifty characters capable of if:
* at a time when millions of people are in desperate need of assistance as a result of the mismanaged collapsing of businesses and economic institutions they oppose benefits based on political principle rather than moral responsibility ...
* they deny the passing of legislation that will benefit millions without health care ...
* they undermine, beyond political tolerance, the office of president and his authority by antagonizing people to demand seeing his birth certificate and question his citizenship ...
[not to mention disparagingly accusing him of belonging to one of the world's most devout and respected religions with negative implication] ...
what i see from their behavior is cruelty, heartlessness, veiled bigotry, and disrespect - and my question is how would people like this behave if they were desperate our in control ? - probably to an extreme we haven't yet experienced in this escalation of power struggles ...
my guess is that they see things like homelessness, unemployed and unemployable, the sick with pre-existing conditions, the rising obesity levels, increasing heart disease and diabetes, increase in high school drop-outs, and poverty in general that effects millions - not as symptomatic of a society in deterioration resulting from decades of special interest favoritism - but rather, they see an expendable liability - that if removed from statistics, they'll be back into profit margins - and the best way to obliterate liability is to not endorse entitlement programs, health care, and the humanities while beefing up security forces and unreasonable laws to protect themselves from the rising dissension ... sound familiar - who's fascist now? - and did the confederacy ever go away? - and do you know the real meaning of confederate? who's really in charge of the death squads? - i wonder ...
so in lieu of having an all out, sustainable war - which is good for business, population control, party line patriotism, and moral re-centering; they probably figure more covert tactics need to be applied - some of which you can catch on the evening news - even without the sound ...
