Standing in the Blinding Luster of Hope While Sifting Through the Mob of Anger and Apathy
October 4th 2009 13:52
Bold statements about freedom and the price that has been paid for the people of America to enjoy these gifts have been passed down from generation to generation.
Through these stories a sense of kindred spirit has been instilled in each and every one of us which has been accompanied with a responsibility. A responsibility to use the gifts of Democracy and the power of direct action to push forth the things we want embodied in our national government.
Things like an educational system that works for our youth instead of against them, safety in the food we eat as opposed to corporate expediency, national policies that are created to spur positive action in rehabilitating addiction instead of building up an already overblown prison population and finding a way for all Americans to share the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In an idealistic world the call to action would be simple. Each and every person in the conversation has a clear understanding of all the things we want from our national government. Common sense policies that reflect the will of the American people isn’t too much to ask for in a technological society that offers us five minute Cheeseburgers and Taco’s.
As with every great society that has come and gone from the face of this planet simplicity will always be trumped in the face of power and greed.
Greed and Power that will take energetic ideas of grass roots activism to make a difference for our fellow citizens and twist them into a national marketing strategy that forgets about the fundamentals.
The fundamentals of a broken system of government that uses words like “experience” to lull us into a fear of the unknown and excuse the mistakes that continue over and over again in the halls of Congress and the Oval office.
The fundamentals of “popular opinion” that makes radical statements about not relying on Washington to fix her own problems by bringing in an outsider and carefully crafting that “outsider” into the mold of the same partisan figures from yesteryear.
Every four years the game of change is played and the American people are left as the victims. The victims of having our passion aroused in power plays of anger, race, gender, god, guns and abortion only to watch another four years of broken promises, national figures jockeying for political poll points and not representing the will of the people who elected them into office.
The lessons that need to be learned from these experiences are forgotten in fits of anger as we blame the people we turned to in the form of escapism for not honoring the glass slipper wishes that were put on their shoulders election day.
What we need to do as a society is figure out the big picture. The big picture where we look back at the political campaigns that surrounded President William Jefferson Clinton in “Election 91”, President George W. Bush in “Election 99” and President Barack Obama in “Election 08”
When we actually step out of our red and blue houses to take an honest look at these things what we will find is the same game in different hues.
The same view of an outsider who was going to come in and clean up the messes of the other party before being “blind sided” by the far left or right.
The same view of someone who was going to bring morality back to the White House, make lives better for the poor around the world or change the perception of race in America and ultimately did none of these things.
When the parades ended, conversations about what will happen turned into conversations about broken promises and reality stood in the face of hope and change; what replaced patience and understanding became red anger.
Red anger for irrational change that stood as a mandate on the job performance of the current person sitting in the swivel chair of the most powerful person in the free world.
Before we can play the blame game for not getting Olympic Bids, record unemployment numbers, the spike in homelessness and the new face of poverty we need to think past the projection of heroes and villains.
It is this projection that is stifling the conversation.
The conversation of finding the source of the problem that begins with the mindset of each and every American. The mindset that tells us the only way to fix our problems and the problems of the world is through bold offensives of extremes. Extremes to do nothing or do everything by way of waging wars and offensives to fix societal problems, issues with outside nations and differences among the populous.
Our national leaders are feeding off of this mindset as the special interests are playing both sides to have their agendas met in the halls of Congress and the Oval Office while the interests of the average American are falling by the way side.
The way side that serves as the graveyard for great ideas that are shut out by a media who would rather support tabloid romances, sex tape scandals, reality TV and people outside of mainstream thinking of the average American who’s voice is not being heard.
This voice is the voice of rationality to find common sense bi partisan solutions to help America get back on her feet again while also discovering solutions to fix problems that have been left on the backburner in favor of fighting invisible wars that have no victory objective.
For every Barack Obama or George W. Bush who is billed as the next great President to fix the rights that have been wronged we are left with a sense of emptiness when the grandeur turns into despair.
From this despair, a void is created that is filled with apathy and repetitive anger. Anger that is twisted to prey on our worst fears surrounding the loss of the things that were guaranteed to us in the Constitution and Bill of Rights…
Through this fear we lean on glass ceilings and the creation of history to make our world look brighter with an expectation that includes the rest of the world standing behind our delusions of grandeur.
Delusions that do nothing but get us further on the road to nowhere with a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, lost hope and red anger that will welcome in the next phase of the story.
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Through these stories a sense of kindred spirit has been instilled in each and every one of us which has been accompanied with a responsibility. A responsibility to use the gifts of Democracy and the power of direct action to push forth the things we want embodied in our national government.
Things like an educational system that works for our youth instead of against them, safety in the food we eat as opposed to corporate expediency, national policies that are created to spur positive action in rehabilitating addiction instead of building up an already overblown prison population and finding a way for all Americans to share the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In an idealistic world the call to action would be simple. Each and every person in the conversation has a clear understanding of all the things we want from our national government. Common sense policies that reflect the will of the American people isn’t too much to ask for in a technological society that offers us five minute Cheeseburgers and Taco’s.
As with every great society that has come and gone from the face of this planet simplicity will always be trumped in the face of power and greed.
Greed and Power that will take energetic ideas of grass roots activism to make a difference for our fellow citizens and twist them into a national marketing strategy that forgets about the fundamentals.
The fundamentals of a broken system of government that uses words like “experience” to lull us into a fear of the unknown and excuse the mistakes that continue over and over again in the halls of Congress and the Oval office.
The fundamentals of “popular opinion” that makes radical statements about not relying on Washington to fix her own problems by bringing in an outsider and carefully crafting that “outsider” into the mold of the same partisan figures from yesteryear.
Every four years the game of change is played and the American people are left as the victims. The victims of having our passion aroused in power plays of anger, race, gender, god, guns and abortion only to watch another four years of broken promises, national figures jockeying for political poll points and not representing the will of the people who elected them into office.
The lessons that need to be learned from these experiences are forgotten in fits of anger as we blame the people we turned to in the form of escapism for not honoring the glass slipper wishes that were put on their shoulders election day.
What we need to do as a society is figure out the big picture. The big picture where we look back at the political campaigns that surrounded President William Jefferson Clinton in “Election 91”, President George W. Bush in “Election 99” and President Barack Obama in “Election 08”
When we actually step out of our red and blue houses to take an honest look at these things what we will find is the same game in different hues.
The same view of an outsider who was going to come in and clean up the messes of the other party before being “blind sided” by the far left or right.
The same view of someone who was going to bring morality back to the White House, make lives better for the poor around the world or change the perception of race in America and ultimately did none of these things.
When the parades ended, conversations about what will happen turned into conversations about broken promises and reality stood in the face of hope and change; what replaced patience and understanding became red anger.
Red anger for irrational change that stood as a mandate on the job performance of the current person sitting in the swivel chair of the most powerful person in the free world.
Before we can play the blame game for not getting Olympic Bids, record unemployment numbers, the spike in homelessness and the new face of poverty we need to think past the projection of heroes and villains.
It is this projection that is stifling the conversation.
The conversation of finding the source of the problem that begins with the mindset of each and every American. The mindset that tells us the only way to fix our problems and the problems of the world is through bold offensives of extremes. Extremes to do nothing or do everything by way of waging wars and offensives to fix societal problems, issues with outside nations and differences among the populous.
Our national leaders are feeding off of this mindset as the special interests are playing both sides to have their agendas met in the halls of Congress and the Oval Office while the interests of the average American are falling by the way side.
The way side that serves as the graveyard for great ideas that are shut out by a media who would rather support tabloid romances, sex tape scandals, reality TV and people outside of mainstream thinking of the average American who’s voice is not being heard.
This voice is the voice of rationality to find common sense bi partisan solutions to help America get back on her feet again while also discovering solutions to fix problems that have been left on the backburner in favor of fighting invisible wars that have no victory objective.
For every Barack Obama or George W. Bush who is billed as the next great President to fix the rights that have been wronged we are left with a sense of emptiness when the grandeur turns into despair.
From this despair, a void is created that is filled with apathy and repetitive anger. Anger that is twisted to prey on our worst fears surrounding the loss of the things that were guaranteed to us in the Constitution and Bill of Rights…
Through this fear we lean on glass ceilings and the creation of history to make our world look brighter with an expectation that includes the rest of the world standing behind our delusions of grandeur.
Delusions that do nothing but get us further on the road to nowhere with a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, lost hope and red anger that will welcome in the next phase of the story.
For more conversations like this this you can join me on the various social networks I am a part of by clicking ont he links below.
Follow me on Twitter!!!
www.twitter.com/khalfaniking
Become one of my friends on Myspace and Facebook
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