The Consequences of Change Politics
July 5th 2009 12:45
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."
~ George Santayana
~ George Santayana
With the haze of a history making election clearing from the fields of broken glass ceilings, glitter and gold that promised us a better tomorrow the time has come to have a conversation about consequences.
Consequences that a great society must endure when they put all their eggs into one basket for a savior to come down from the heavens to lift a nation up from despair.
The despair of a failed Presidential administration that fell on it’s sword of arrogance in an effort to protect our nation and the world form the dangerous ideals of a mad man.
The despair of a failed economy created from decades of government meddling with financial sectors, greed of the American people and handing over the keys of the nation to corporate institutions.
From our pain we built up iconic heroes on both sides of the argument on how to best get our nation back on her feet again.
These heroes approached the nation with a bi-partisan touch and a strong understanding of everything that needed to be said by way of getting a do nothing Congress to work for the American people instead of special interests and having both sides work together.
In time, as in all national elections, a front runner emerged and both sides went back to their roots of spin, diversion and division.
The true root of the Democratic Party are in the philosophy of Nancy Pelosi that ignores compromise and has a win at all costs mentality.
This thought process filtered through the first 100 days of the Obama administration as bills were created in back rooms and shoved down the throat of the Republican side of Congress.
The theme of the “Fire sale” was much the same as George W. Bush’s pitch for war against the nation of Iraq.
The thought of standing up against this “agent of change” was equated to being against American recovery.
Anyone who stood up against the freight train of spending was laughed at or had fingers pointed at them for playing the same old partisan political games as the faucet of free flow spending continued to pour.
The promise was an instant influx of jobs and prosperity as we bailed out bank after bank and fused money into failing empires of the auto industry.
Dinosaurs of the industry who could not or would not adapt to a changing world that screamed for these companies to produce smaller vehicles found themselves on the ropes and our government chose to pull trillions of taxpayer dollars out of a troubled economy to keep them from filing bankruptcy.
When reality struck and the dinosaurs wasted the money earmarked to keep them afloat they were forced to do the one thing our money was set aside to prevent and the reaction of our leaders was to allow taxpayer money to flow into the Italian economy through Fiat and to fully invest into a failed company.
The one thing that bugged me during the election was the aspect of fanaticism on both sides of the aisle.
Fanaticism from the left by not wanting to seriously listen to debates that could directly affect the lives of all Americans, fixation on race and gender along with allowing the media to create caricatures of great men and women instead of fully understanding the choices set forth on election day.
Fanaticism from the right with creating an anti atmosphere based around fear of the unknown, double agendas of fighting for the conversation to come to the middle while holding rallies based around God, Guns and Abortion along with spitting on everything that could be achieved by way of progress if a glass ceiling were to be broken.
Both sides lost their minds as imperfect messengers were born from the left and right.
The imperfect messenger of President Barack Obama whose campaign slogan of “Change We Can believe In” will now stand in emphomy along with George W. Bush’s one liner “I’m a Uniter Not A Divider”.
The imperfect messenger of Sarah Palin who formed new voting blocks of hockey and Wal*Mart mom’s through the inspiration of her personal story in the quick rise to power and national prominence will forever be labeled as a quitter or an opprotunist.
Much like Hillary Clinton was to the right Sarah Palin holds the same divisive stature among the elite on the left.
Before this Governor of Alaska even uttered a word to the American public she had already been deemed as a "nitwit" and unfit to be anywhere near the oval office.
The media made it their mission to twist these assumptions based on her beauty queen looks into reality through spin reporting, false stories based on rumors and doctored interview tapes.
The mission was to bury her credibility in an effort to eliminate any conversation about women breaking glass ceilings with Sarah Palin as the new face of the movement.
When we truly break down the conversation about polarization and it does not involve actual performance as a legislator it breaks down to three issues.
Religion, Gun Control and Abortion are the three factors that laid judgment on Sarah Palin and the rest are simply semantics.
Much like the far lefts failed attempts to discredit George W. Bush these very same efforts are falling into the pit of double speak and visible agenda’s as the American people begin to turn their anger towards the current administration.
It’s easy to laugh and make jokes about how people in parts of our country could be “dumb enough” to support a woman who comes from a background they don’t understand but if there’s one thing we should have learned from the “00”, “04” and “08” Presidential elections it is within the fact that American anger can make the improbable probable.
The spending has changed the conversation and along with the conversation also changes the game.
The bi-partisan’s who jumped on the Obama express in awe of everything this administration said they were going to do by way of creating an atmosphere of inclusion, having a bi-partisan cabinet and working up and down both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill are now seeing the glitter of the gold turn into brass.
There is something to be said for the celebration of history and the vision of everything this nation could be but there is also a time for straight talk and understanding the things that are happening on the ground.
The problem with this country was not George W. Bush nor does it lie squarely with any former President or member of Congress.
It’s simply a mixture of all these things and the fact that our country does not have the ability to break the cycle.
As much as everyone like’s to run around and laugh at the antics of Sarah Palin she could very well be our next President if this administration does not get it’s act together.
There has to be a point and time for us to stop the bleeding of our country, causing division, allowing the spending and continuing the misunderstanding.
The time for us to get back on track is now but the train we need to get on doesn’t run with a blue or red engine.
This train runs with the spirit of the American people and the rediscovery of our common sense and judgment.
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