But it is this election cycle that is shaking me even further. 2012 shattered my conception of a rational voter. But 2016 is shattering my conception of a mentally sane voter... We are literally looking at symptoms of mental illness from one candidate.... where he spews nothing but empty rhetoric into the air, capturing nothing more than the emotional frustration of (and I hate to use this word), the masses.
We are spinning towards the premise of the movie "Idiocracy". We seem
to be slamming on the gas, and the brake has long been grinded to
nothing....
In the 1910's the world proclaimed that we had reached an age of enlightenment.... that war was a thing of the past, and that we had evolved past such things..... then in 1914 WWI started.
We have learned nothing since then. We have assumed that since we have all this technology, that we don't need to critically think anymore. We have told ourselves that politics is not important enough to concern ourselves with.
Well you damned well better be concerned by it! Politics affects everything you do in life. Your taxes, your private property, your investments, your ability to shop somewhere you choose to. Your individual rights, liberties, and freedoms (they are all distinct).
In the rush to turn towards other things, in the desire to relegate politics to something we only give cursory awareness to every 4-8 years, your very identity has been stripped from you.
We now have 4 people running for President. One openly advocates war crimes.... is by all accounts an egomaniac, and at BEST should be deemed an opportunist. Another will say just about ANYTHING in order to convince you to vote for her. Still another is truthful about his desires to wed government to business..... making every sector of our lives, in one way or another, under the control of government. And a fourth, who is so demonized that all the other three have said just about anything in order to make him look like a liar, a zealot, a theocrat, a statist, a snake oil salesman, a misogynist, and whatever else you can come up with.....
Im not trying to get you to vote for the person I vote for...... I just want people to REASON and critically THINK about more than what slutty outfit the Kardashians are wearing right now.... Be more concerned with your RIGHTS, than you are about your LICENSE. For God's sake, WAKE THE FUCK UP!
In the 1910's the world proclaimed that we had reached an age of enlightenment.... that war was a thing of the past, and that we had evolved past such things..... then in 1914 WWI started.
We have learned nothing since then. We have assumed that since we have all this technology, that we don't need to critically think anymore. We have told ourselves that politics is not important enough to concern ourselves with.
Well you damned well better be concerned by it! Politics affects everything you do in life. Your taxes, your private property, your investments, your ability to shop somewhere you choose to. Your individual rights, liberties, and freedoms (they are all distinct).
In the rush to turn towards other things, in the desire to relegate politics to something we only give cursory awareness to every 4-8 years, your very identity has been stripped from you.
We now have 4 people running for President. One openly advocates war crimes.... is by all accounts an egomaniac, and at BEST should be deemed an opportunist. Another will say just about ANYTHING in order to convince you to vote for her. Still another is truthful about his desires to wed government to business..... making every sector of our lives, in one way or another, under the control of government. And a fourth, who is so demonized that all the other three have said just about anything in order to make him look like a liar, a zealot, a theocrat, a statist, a snake oil salesman, a misogynist, and whatever else you can come up with.....
Im not trying to get you to vote for the person I vote for...... I just want people to REASON and critically THINK about more than what slutty outfit the Kardashians are wearing right now.... Be more concerned with your RIGHTS, than you are about your LICENSE. For God's sake, WAKE THE FUCK UP!
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