I think my separation from the US has made me more sensitive to things going on in the news. Partly because I now have time to pay attention to the news again, but also probably because there is this last minute blowout going on in American: How ridiculous can things get before the end of the year!?
I just don’t know though, the more and more I watch the headlines and read the articles I am beginning to see things that really are disturbing me greatly. There seems to be a great confusion going in American culture and more importantly politics. It is clear to me that the pervasive mode of operation is to turn everyone against each other so that the people who can- can do whatever they want. Look over there, red herring! Oops it’s a blue herring coming right back at you! I think that’s called flip-flopping!
Everyone is in such a sad state that people speak from their asses even when it’s the most counter intuitive thing ever. Someone said that politicians are playing a pimp game, which is true, but the person who said it has no political or social credibility so they were written off as crazy. But it is true, and the example is the result of this type of tactic. I tell you the truth but then someone mentions something else (true or not) to discredit me and therefore “my truth” is also nullified. We have a gangster’s moxie political system in which we defeat what we do not like not by leveraging fact vs. desire, but rather falsehood vs. fear. There are people who have convinced a very large segment of the population that not only do they have the populace’s best intention at heat, but also that regardless of what you think is best for you- it isn’t. They tell is how to think! And we do so.
The things that make me the most uncomfortable is that my viewpoints are unwittingly becoming aligned with the paranoid. The problem really isn’t if I’m paranoid or not- it’s what if the paranoid really aren’t paranoid!? No I jest. The real problem is that the paranoid people are actually the people identified as being so far out politically that they have been effectively silenced in popular discussion because their views aren’t even valid to the general confusion that exists within the mainstream argument. The political landscape is in reality very very vast and nuanced across the American populace. What our current crop of politicians have done is distilled everything into a binary existence. “DANGER WILL ROBINSON!”
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