The Danger That Comes When Politics Stop Being about the Issues
October 24th 2010 14:33
When this whole thing called “Radical Independence” began to take shape it was simply a movement to help Americans take a closer look at the reasons why major issues affecting their health, welfare and way of life were not being addressed by either of the big two political parties.
Issues that find their way onto the platforms of political debates and party agenda but always lose steam in favor of crusades to protect the American people from the things we are told to fear.
A fear that is always directed at a great invisible force from the extremes of the far left or far right that threaten to take away our money, rights guaranteed in the Constitution or our ability to earn a living.
To remedy this fear, crusades have been constructed in the name of ensuring that every man, woman and child is able to secure the “right” of home ownership, is guaranteed the “right” to Health Care, the “right” to practice their own religion above all others, the “right” to gun ownership and the “right” to a myriad of other things that were not expressly guaranteed in the United States Constitution but have somehow been implied as if they were.
When we examine the extraordinary circumstances that brought together our forefathers who came from different walks of life, religious faiths and different ideals concerning the things that would make a society great we can only come to one singular conclusion.
A conclusion that begins and ends with the fact that they put aside all their assumptions, bravado and future places in history to build one of the largest compromises the world has ever witnessed.
A compromise that would not appoint a singular faith in charge of a future nation and would forbid any future form of government from doing so.
A compromise that would forever reserve the rights of gun ownership to every current and future citizen of the United States of America to protect their homes and way of life.
A compromise that was created with the purpose of separating religion from the political process to prevent the things that happened in the countries they left in order to build new lives in a land of opportunity.
What’s happened in modern politics is that we have forgotten the fundamentals.
The fundamentals that come with placing the hard issues facing every American, man, woman and child before all others.
In the midst of an economic crisis that has no ending, government mishandling of two wars in a region of the world that is the modern equivalent of a powder keg, fear and anger among the populous in regards to religious beliefs, race or sexual orientation, pollution of our oceans and drinking water supply, a corporate food industry that has run amok in a hunt for profits over concern of the well being of their consumers and a general lack of oversight from the men and women appointed to represent the people over the interests of corporations and special interests who fund their political campaigns we are still playing the game.
The game of closing our eyes to the overall problems of the system we have allowed to be created when the American people weren’t looking.
The system that was constructed in dark corners during every dirty political campaign where points were raised about problems with campaign finance reform, hands in the cookie jar, political parties and representatives not taking care of their constituents needs and fear mongering.
What we are left with is a hollow shell of a political process that once stood for putting the best man or woman up against each other in an open forum and deciding who the best person was that would serve the needs of their Congressional District, State or Nation.
What we have now is a focus on culture wars that play on our fears of religions we do not understand, fears of race and belief in the dramatics that come with modern campaigning.
While there should be a point and time where the campaigning stops and we can all come back to our senses as one nation; this is no longer a possibility in the modern state of extremes.
Issues that are bad for the future prosperity of the nation are brushed aside as something for the “greater good” and used as a battering ram for the other side to promote causes that have nothing to do with getting the train back on the tracks.
Until the people of the United States of America can figure out the things that are dragging us into the abyss we will never be able to come together in the creation of solutions that benefit all Americans.
Instead, the powers that be will continue to pit the rich against the poor, the young against the old, every race against one another, men against women, wars between different regions of the United States and will ultimately go against the intent of the Constitution by joining the multi century old war between religions that will continue to threaten the destruction of the human race if it is allowed replace the need to bring people together.
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Issues that find their way onto the platforms of political debates and party agenda but always lose steam in favor of crusades to protect the American people from the things we are told to fear.
A fear that is always directed at a great invisible force from the extremes of the far left or far right that threaten to take away our money, rights guaranteed in the Constitution or our ability to earn a living.
To remedy this fear, crusades have been constructed in the name of ensuring that every man, woman and child is able to secure the “right” of home ownership, is guaranteed the “right” to Health Care, the “right” to practice their own religion above all others, the “right” to gun ownership and the “right” to a myriad of other things that were not expressly guaranteed in the United States Constitution but have somehow been implied as if they were.
When we examine the extraordinary circumstances that brought together our forefathers who came from different walks of life, religious faiths and different ideals concerning the things that would make a society great we can only come to one singular conclusion.
A conclusion that begins and ends with the fact that they put aside all their assumptions, bravado and future places in history to build one of the largest compromises the world has ever witnessed.
A compromise that would not appoint a singular faith in charge of a future nation and would forbid any future form of government from doing so.
A compromise that would forever reserve the rights of gun ownership to every current and future citizen of the United States of America to protect their homes and way of life.
A compromise that was created with the purpose of separating religion from the political process to prevent the things that happened in the countries they left in order to build new lives in a land of opportunity.
What’s happened in modern politics is that we have forgotten the fundamentals.
The fundamentals that come with placing the hard issues facing every American, man, woman and child before all others.
In the midst of an economic crisis that has no ending, government mishandling of two wars in a region of the world that is the modern equivalent of a powder keg, fear and anger among the populous in regards to religious beliefs, race or sexual orientation, pollution of our oceans and drinking water supply, a corporate food industry that has run amok in a hunt for profits over concern of the well being of their consumers and a general lack of oversight from the men and women appointed to represent the people over the interests of corporations and special interests who fund their political campaigns we are still playing the game.
The game of closing our eyes to the overall problems of the system we have allowed to be created when the American people weren’t looking.
The system that was constructed in dark corners during every dirty political campaign where points were raised about problems with campaign finance reform, hands in the cookie jar, political parties and representatives not taking care of their constituents needs and fear mongering.
What we are left with is a hollow shell of a political process that once stood for putting the best man or woman up against each other in an open forum and deciding who the best person was that would serve the needs of their Congressional District, State or Nation.
What we have now is a focus on culture wars that play on our fears of religions we do not understand, fears of race and belief in the dramatics that come with modern campaigning.
While there should be a point and time where the campaigning stops and we can all come back to our senses as one nation; this is no longer a possibility in the modern state of extremes.
Issues that are bad for the future prosperity of the nation are brushed aside as something for the “greater good” and used as a battering ram for the other side to promote causes that have nothing to do with getting the train back on the tracks.
Until the people of the United States of America can figure out the things that are dragging us into the abyss we will never be able to come together in the creation of solutions that benefit all Americans.
Instead, the powers that be will continue to pit the rich against the poor, the young against the old, every race against one another, men against women, wars between different regions of the United States and will ultimately go against the intent of the Constitution by joining the multi century old war between religions that will continue to threaten the destruction of the human race if it is allowed replace the need to bring people together.
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