Thursday, February 3, 2011
Will we face the same uprisings in America?
In a comment from Danny, he approached the subject, Americans confronting our government in the same type of fashion that we are currently seeing in the Middle East. I have for several years, been of the opinion that a new revolution will occur in our country. It may not be in my lifetime, although it very well could happen sooner then later. The reasons that I feel this way has to do with the economics we are facing. The poor are getting poorer. The middle class is shrinking. The divides between the wealthy and the poor are growing wider each day. People should read our own Declaration of Independence and can understand from the first line, "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands," that as events unfold and the people loose control of the politicians we have elected, we will look for remedies beyond the normal. I have no problem with the discussion of differences based upon policy. I have a problem with the idea, forced upon us by the very politicians we elect to serve us, that the only solution is for the average person to suffer and the advantages go to the wealthy and corporations. We cannot afford a meager amount of money to assist the unemployed, however we can afford tax cuts to the wealthiest individuals and corporations. In his state of the union, President Obama talked about eliminating the subsidise to the oil companies. Did anyone in Congress act on this? No, they continued the assault on the health care reform. There philosophy is to attack a program that can assist and help millions of average people, and to leave intact a program that protect the profits and interest of a very wealthy group. Exxon had a profit of over 9 billion dollars for the last quarter. Think of that, 9 billion dollar profit for the quarter, and yet they get money from us to keep them from paying taxes and increase their profits. The politicians could eliminate this with tax overhaul and instituting a flat income tax. They prefer to protect their re-election money to our votes. Why does this happen? We allow it. We do not do our homework and vote out the people that are in control. We do not use the power of over 330 million voices to silence the rich and powerful. We have to take ownership for our government. Democracy is not a spectator sport, it is participatory. We cannot continue to hand over our power to politicians that take it and pervert in into something for their own good. Is it inevitable that we have to revolt? No, but only if we wake up and take the control back. You hear the phrase, "We the people," all of the time, but how often do the people stand and be heard? We are too complacent and need to be forceful to avoid the fate of other countries. These are only shadows of what may happen, not what has to happen. More to follow.
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We face uprisings everyday, just not to the level of chaos and destruction. Not since 1990's Rodney King verdict have people massively taken to the streets. We have the power and the voice of democracy yet we always seem to vote for candidates that don't preach democracy, that do not fight for the people, and that represent the wealthy who have pushed aside the social issues that plague us daily. We live in the cyber era where social networks, ipads and i phones are our way of life. Yet for odd reason, military deployments are on the rise; which has a high cost in home defense, education has taken a backseat to funding a political campaign. Healthcare costs rise and more cititzens drop healthcare in order to survive. Pedofiles are law enforcement officers, gas prices rises, forclosures, unemployment...etc, etc. Yes we face the uprising, we are just more civilized to expressions. Most likely for the best though, burning flags and buildings never accomplished good.
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteBefore you continue your next response please contemplate the answer I still not getting.
When they control your place of healing, when they control your place of information, when they control your source of food, when they control your source of power, when they have legislated the guns out of your home, when they control your means of communication, when they are not constrained by Habius Corpus (Taken away in the "Patriot Act")... how will you fight back John?
How will you let them knwo that you are in control not them?
How will you let them know that you created them, and your rights are here for you when you are born, not given to you by them.
How John... That day will come.
And like I said previously, I will not look at my kids and say
(I was scared of terrorist so I let them detain people indefinitely as long as they were called a "terrorist", and the news showed a lot of violence so I let them register and regulate every firearm, and only allow you so many bullets. Oh and I was scared this other time about our internet being hacked so I let them put a kill-switch on the whole thing. Oh and their were people that had less than me so I let the government be charitable with my money instead of me, and I let them take control of our hospitals. OH, and this was really bad... on time the economy was crap, so I let the governmetn bail out some rich people (whom I usually hate) but its ok becasue they chose to bail out AIG and not Lehman Brothers...)