Common sense for modern Ears part 2
By seannelson
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To deal with a front and center, burning issue: for the Republicans to block the President's customary and constitutional appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is nothing short of racial discrimination and a blow to democracy.
Another issue many Republicans are misbehaving about is that for approximately 7
years now, most of America's businesses have been quietly turning
shocking, record profits.... while paying pennies in taxes... and using
corrupted journalists, etc., to convince their workers we were in the
middle of a grave recession.
So the state unemployment numbers are believable,
though that doesn't mean anything's okay. Personally, I grew up in a
middle class family getting rich: I spent at least half my childhood
hours alone at home staring at windows... the other hours in a
school-system I hated as an Earthly hell(despite my top knotch IQ and
SAT scores...) because the schedule was rigid, and the discipline was
tight, but the classwork was loose, laborious, and mindless... not to
mention how the culture actively encouraged bullying.
Now, I'm pretty sure these last lines would describe the operations of many of today's
American corporations and government agencies... I've seen it first
hand. But due to the work ethic and talents of the people(and some leaders,) and the
amazing power of robotics and technology, there is still an
indescribable surplus of wealth, which they would rather use to fill the
caves of Afghanistan, than to feed our many hungry American children,
treat our sick veterans and citizens, and generally make this a better
country to live in for each and every American soul...
See, the U.S.A. has great attributes, but she also has major issues and divisions as
well. As the Pope just bravely jousted out against a feasible future
president, we need to build not "only walls" but also solid "bridges,"
literal and metaphoric, lots of them.
On a related topic, one my favorite leader Bernie Sanders has emphasized: before we judge or jail any American citizen, we need to ask what their
perspective was: what experiences shaped their world-view: what drove or
justified the behavior we didn't like? By asking these questions, we'll
often find that the youth is innocent or not nearly as guilty as the
perception, and even when we find that the conduct was monstrous... the
truth will often be that the monster was only a reflection of the myriad
corruptions and the barbarities that pervade much of today's America.
Let's make it better. Join the rational revolution today.
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