Originally posted by voguy in another thread
I hate to say it, Riddick, but I think there is a case to break up the U.S. into sovereign countries. Individual states, or a collection of states.
I feel that the U.S. and other countries have become so large that they become unmanageable under one central governing body. At the least, our reps are unreachable by the common man under the system we have now.
And being unreachable doesn't present a lot of options for holding the culpable Capitol critters accountable individually or collectively, does it? Except for voting the rascals out, I suppose... But even then, the way it is all you can be sure of is a bunch of NEW rascals will take their place -
'Course the choice we're invariably given amounts to picking a perceived lesser evil of two and boy oh boy, is THAT option ever something to get earnestly pragmatic about - instead of all at once, you sensibly relinquish your principles, compromise your conscience and sell your soul ONLY A BIT AT A TIME. (Now THERE'S a marriage of wishful thinking and misplaced trust made in Hades!)
As I see it with the potential for pure deviltry NOT in the sole purview of either party, albeit ostensibly at a reduced rate yet still to a great extent the purposeful ongoing election of lessers into office aids evil's endless ascent, with the cumulative effect deleteriously limiting perceptions and discernment of 'good' or 'evil' in the short run and 'lesser' or 'greater' in the long.
What do you do, re-elect an ineffectual incumbent or elect some presumably less evil yet more capable demonic candidate? Such as it's the 'Little Nickys' versus the Cthulhus time after time, exactly how is it that 'the greater good' comes out ahead of any of them? Short answer: it doesn't.
Essentially, what seems to escape most true believers' detection is it's all about drinking the Kool-aid - Folks may favor one color or flavor over the other but be it 'Blue Donkeyberry' or 'Red Elephantarine' that strikes their fancy, by any measure for the common man the bottom-line long-term reality of America's participatory democracy has, no more or no less, become a matter of choosing one's preferred poison!
IMHO, not only is it that both parties working separately or in tandem have basically been up to absolutely no good for all too long, as well by any sort of objective measure it will have BEEN AN ALL TOO LONG LINEAGE of entrusted duly elected lessers from either side responsible one way or another, each in their own fashion, for taking us all down.
Rock and a hard place, anyone? No matter what happens from now through Fall 2012 and regardless of the names on the ballots for our upcoming regularly scheduled exercises in futility, from my POV it seems at bare minimum the electoral pickle we're in promises to produce and/or further some sort of continuing socioeconomic damnation on one scale or another -
In summary, all I can say is it seems to me prospects for common folk can AND will only get worse the way we've been going at it here - as I see it as what got us INTO this godforsaken mess IS electing EVIL LESSERS right along with no letup, there's no chance in hell we will see the 'greater good' EVER win out - except, of course, unless something happens to change that-!
That said, on a purely personal level, in his time George Carlin shared HIS simple and elegant method of dealing directly with the dilemma posed by a political system irredeemably corrupted from left to right, top to bottom and all it involves IS NOT GETTING involved at all:
On first blush it doesn't seem an all too satisfying way to go yet OTOH, for one thing by taking Carlin's 'IRONIC DETACHMENT' route, a person CAN proudly proclaim THEY HAVEN'T DONE their part to push America deeper into hell...!!
The following 3 min. video is suggested for
folks who appreciate an explicit approach -
(Hey, when it's CARLIN? 10 to 1 it's NSWF
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If you're still breathing, it's not too late!
I'm sorry but I'm confused how her brief opinion of a very subjective and abstract concept as "faith" insulted anyone. Could you please elaborate on who was insulted and why? If I were moonchild, I'd be insulted by you specifically calling me out voicing mere opinion, making a personal observation.