I understand that a largely held conservative belief is that government is the enemy and should be limited at every turn, but that’s not how I feel. The middle ground would be to recognize that the country is in pain at the moment and needs a government that is truly dedicated to serving the PEOPLE of this country and not increasing the power of the people who just raped us financially and will continue to do so. I truly believe that the President is dedicated to fixing this and I don’t blame him for the anger I have for the government. He needs to make some adjustments, but I still think that in 12 months he’s stirred up more hornets nests of entrenched interest that any I’ve ever seen. The healthcare insurance industry is paying more than 100 million dollars to lobby against the healthcare initiative. Much of the financial industry is using bailout funds (indirectly I’m sure) to lobby against financial reforms that would protect against collapse again. Defense contractors are pushing for billions of dollars towards weaponry that the Pentagon says they don’t even want. The list goes on. Washington is in crisis. The partisanship, money influence, comical media coverage, makes it impossible to take anything seriously. The stunts that have been pulled this year have been entertaining, but absolutely toxic to our dialogue. The ridiculousness of “death panels”, socialism and the like have made the American people out to be gullible and uninformed and more interested in a mud fight than an actual functioning government. How is it that so many people have so little grasp of the issues, but such rigid ideology?
But the mudslinging just came up small potatoes. The influence to effectively control the people’s Congress was just given to special interests. This is a conservative leaning Supreme Court that just turned over our democracy “by the people” to industry. It is Republican’s (and some left) that will attempt to block financial reform because of it’s “big government” appearance. What a joke. I hear, “Damn you Washington for bailing out banks.” (even if, had it not, the economy would have collapsed). “Damn you Washington for letting the banks to get out of control” (even though Republicans basically were responsible for demolishing the financial protections that were in enacted after the Great Depression that would have keep them in control). “Damn you Washington for your big government ideology” (even though government would have been able to better protect us from unscrupulous bankers had the Republicans not diminished the ability for government to function correctly).”
It’s as if I’m watching a delusional sociopath. Someone so committed to blaming someone else, that they can’t even see that they’re largely responsible for the disaster that we’re in and getting deeper into. So, please, continue. I’ve always had an interest in reliving the whole Mad Max series.
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