The negative political statement phenomenon is one of the most destructive practice, as one can form an offensive, intentional and calculated argument before hearing someone else’s viewpoint. This is now a new branch of marketing as a science, making us eating, drinking, buying and accepting whatever one had planned for us to do.
Democracy is based on hearing everyone’s viewpoint to form consensuses to be represented, not political parties inducing people with marketing plots to make us think their way for ulterior motives.
We have now reach a such level of systematic reactive fights against the others, including against the Government, that it could ultimately be viewed by outside observers as criminal acts against the functioning of a Nation.
Among industrialized Countries, The USA is the last bastion of careless apathy for their own citizens, incapable of supporting the disfranchised, except anecdotally at Thanksgiving, as if poor people were eating once a year. It is as we have looked in our own mirror for so long that we forgot the World has drastically changed around us and our old arguments are now either funny or depressing stand-up comedy subjects around the World.
We, as a Nation, were not capable of rebuilding a City destroyed by a hurricane and we keep forgetting about it as if it did happen on another Planet. Yes, it is going to cost money to fix 40 years of social political standing still, and it is going to cost even more to fix all the thousands crumbling bridges and hundreds of dams ready to drawn villages and towns, collapsing sewage and water pipes all around the Nation, overloaded dated National electrical grid, outdated power plants and roads looking like minefields.
We disregarded maintaining and rebuilding the infrastructure of the Nation by fear of the money spending finger pointing game. We had one warning of a collapsing bridge not too long ago and we already forgot, distracted by the next offensive argument we bought for the sake of satisfying our emerging national anger fomented by our divisive political parties.
It is going to cost as water flows the river to eradicate the more than 20% of illiterate Americans, a statistic we have been maintaining for the past 30 years, and in good part responsible for the seven and half millions Citizens in jail, representing a shaming 25% of the entire World imprisoned population; although the USA only represent 4.6% of our planet inhabitants.
And it is going to cost so much to lower the count of the few Hundreds of Thousands of People dying each year of devastating and expanding illnesses from our greed of mass-producing dangerous food, drinks including processed water, confusing drugs helping and killing people at the same time, and allowing the air we breathe a few times a minute and everyday of our live to be corrosive.
What it is going to cost to finally take responsibility of the 66% of American people declared obese, making us ranked 42 of the world Countries on this subject? Have you seen the movie Wally? It was barely for kids, as we are getting closer to that world of Trash Mountains
We can go on this realistic statistical path for a while, showing how close we are to become the richest Third World Country. As if we, as a Nation, continue arguing instead of acting, we will soon loose any reason for national pride as we could end up being called something else.
Listen to your heart and re-develop your human senses, not political arguments, as they are made to lure you to fight against, whatever against they need for you to fight for their interests at a time. Be humans, not sheep. Freedom is not a one-block package we keep while being distracted day and night with TV, toys and games. It is a malleable form we have to accommodate for anyone around us and fight a peaceful and respectful fight to keep it alive and well, as freedom is a privilege we all have to share, not a right we wave out only when we feel threatened.
well said, as usual!
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