A little politicin' from a leaf eater
I remember back in grade school when my older sister tried to tell me about how economics work. She said, ??Basically, if we sell apples to California, they can sell raisins to Mexicans, who sell their avocados to Guatemalans, who need to sell their bananas to Colombia so they can grow cocaine for bad, drug using Americans.? I only remembered this verse from my sweet, young, older 12-year-old sister when I actually read some of the Economics text book in High School. I only recall this, well, simply because I??m stoned.
I think on this now as a somewhat mature human being, and I realize that we have slumped into a political vortex of bickering, humiliating, and publicizing so bad, that our puny minds can??t even consider what will be expected from the next American public.
When you were in grade school, talking 3rd, 4th grade (if you can fathom that long ago), you believed everything you read about America in the textbooks provided by the public schools, right? Remember?America??s the best, we??re number one! We haven??t lost a war, we killed the soviets!?. remember? Back in the good ol?? days when that big desert on the other side of the world was only being a nuisance to oil companies, and the only direct drama it caused involved the bank accounts of wealthy, American merchants and the price inflation of gasoline to run our automobiles. Fifteen years down the road, who would??ve seen it coming? Just in the last five years, the American public has been faced with really scary situations, dramatic changes in lifestyle, deceiving pressures from amongst each other, and difficult questions to even consider, considering the most of us Americans don??t see any of the drama first hand.
Does the American people want troops out of Iraq or not? Why are we in Iraq to begin with if it??s just a civil war? Did we cause it? How can we pull out our servicemen safely? Can the Iraqi Civil War be fought without risking the lives of Americans? What have we gotten ourselves into? These are just questions at hand, to be resolved in the next few months, while the media leads the public on another year with it.
What about fifty years from now? Twenty years from now? ?if fifty??s too big for you to understand, or even care. What can we try to achieve when our public focus is being directed toward six month to four year issues, while we are not considering how this all will come to burden our great grandchildren??s shoulders when they reach the age our today??s politicians?
Presidential election is always fun, especially for the media. News anchors take turns every four years to present the red and blue American flag, each state colored according to the party majority vote. Every four years this ceremony takes place in front of national broadcasting cameras, while the public goes crazy. You know, Dan Rather has been on CBS News television since 1963? Did Kennedy work on anything to help achieve by 1993 as an overall goal to better the lives of Americans, or did he want to get to the moon before those damn Soviets did? At least Dan Rather had an overall goal, to make sure we knew what was going on in politics, as long as the White House had something for him to tell us Americans.
Bottom line is this: the public eye is the ultimate judge, now.
If Bush wants to win his war, he??s going to have to go down graceful for the public come 2008. He??s going to have to have some awesomely written speeches and come up with some really good video footage for the media to present, and even lean some of the public to appreciate his service in whatever history he made for our great grandchildren??s history books. If not, he will be a failure in history, and will not be remembered by the common American public 230 years from now as a productive political leader. The next presidential candidate will come soon enough, and the media will get the public frazzled and talking about whatever??s in the newspapers, magazines, and television sets, all for a public show. Then that person will be expected to bring something to the table to help us recover from the previous eight years of nonsense in the White House.
It seems that the American way of doing things has become a recovery process since the great depression, when Mr. Roosevelt did his damndest to keep his promise to the American public that We will NEVER have to do THAT again! No real progress takes place in politics; issues become complicated and misinterpreted, and always with the bull shit politician??s previous DUI and political views on abortion rights, snowballing and reproducing to make even more static. All this is honestly not necessary. What are we trying to achieve NOW? How are those achievements going to help us achieve our plans for the later future, when we don??t have plans for the later future? At least the U.N has its focus on a legitimate goal to reduce ??global warming?. They??re thinking in the right direction.
I can only hope that our descendants will be thinking better along those lines when the time comes for them to rule the world, then maybe the human race will actually achieve something REAL.
--the rabbit--
A little politicin' from a leaf eater
Howdy rabbit,
How long have ya been going through life,seeing the glass as half-empty ?
I think that it's pretty sad,that you view defending America,liberating others from tryanny and fighting for freedom for all,as "utter nonsense".
Have a good one ...
A little politicin' from a leaf eater
Seems like we've been doing one thing correctly, at least prolifically, Procreating. Since Ive been alive the "human race" has tripled, from 2 billion to 6.5 billion, just like rabbits. It wont be long untill food will become our largest concern, untill then it's just greedy little wars to keep the rich occupied! Of course, you know who'll be doin the dying, you guessed it, us!
A little politicin' from a leaf eater
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Originally Posted by therabbit
Bottom line is this: the public eye is the ultimate judge, now.
If Bush wants to win his war, he??s going to have to go down graceful for the public come 2008. He??s going to have to have some awesomely written speeches and come up with some really good video footage for the media to present, and even lean some of the public to appreciate his service in whatever history he made for our great grandchildren??s history books. If not, he will be a failure in history, and will not be remembered by the common American public 230 years from now as a productive political leader.
--the rabbit--
First of all I think you mean win the invasion.
And it has already been ??won?. Of course I mean he won because he??s probably achieved the goals which motivated the invasion. No one really knows what the goals were, corporate profit? Maybe, if it was he hit that nail on the head. I doubt we??ll ever know.
the public would consider leaving Iraq would be a ??win?, I guess that??s because America can??t loose; so when they do you gotta change the goal, ha. Anyways they??ve already forgot why then entered the country, and they??ve probably forgot the other replacement reasons too.
My point is that Bush and the republicans really shouldn??t be able to come back from this. They lied, mislead, falsified and fucked up too much for a critical person to overcome. Again luckly it??s in America.
Sorry if this offends, that??s not my motive
Torog, your like my polar opposite.
A little politicin' from a leaf eater
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Back in the good ol?? days when that big desert on the other side of the world was only being a nuisance to oil companies, and the only direct drama it caused involved the bank accounts of wealthy, American merchants and the price inflation of gasoline to run our automobiles. Fifteen years down the road, who would??ve seen it coming?
Well, at least Frank Herbert saw it coming. He wrote Dune in 1969.
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I can only hope that our descendants will be thinking better along those lines when the time comes for them to rule the world, then maybe the human race will actually achieve something REAL.
No kiddin'...What ever happened to achievement? The first half of the last century was amazing. In my grandmother's lifetime the World went from Kittyhawk to the Moon. So where's my damn flying car The Jetsons promised me?! Where's 2001:A Space Odessy? When was the last time they actually cured something? What do we have to show for the last 40 years? --the Internet and cell phones? better looking video games and more channels on television? --That's it?! Why are we still even burning oil? We split the friggin' atom in the '40s' for cryin' out loud! We've had quantum physics since the very early 1900s! We should be phasing to work and meeting Biff and Muffy for sushi in a parallel Universe!......We.,I..ooohh, that makes me sooo angry.
