reply to post by Blaine91555
Your logic and wisdom are very powerful and I agree with most everything you say. However, I think the system is broken and that "playing by the
rules" is not possible, anymore, because it has become so corrupt.
I agree with all of your points except for:
#10. Run for Political Office and seek out positions where you can actually make a difference.
Since the entire system, in my opinion, is being manipulated by a master puppeteer, then the amount of time it would take to legally and overtly
"infiltrate" the system, rising to the higher echelons of power that might actually allow some progressive input, will be too little, too late.
Good people have and still enter politics, but I say that they either become corrupted, compromised, blackmailed or marginalized in the process until
they cannot effectively affect positive change. Case in point is the recently elected Democrats in last November's "charge up San Juan Hill."
They have done little, if anything to stem the blood flow in Iraq or finger the dike of our borders that leak like a Latino sieve, allowing thousands
of illegal immigrants to continue to pour into our rapidly deteriorating country. Only recently, after much shouting by constituents, has any
enforcement of the laws begun to stem the tide of illegal humanity that threatens to drown us from within.
Remember, I agree with most everything you say and I may be wrong about my opposition to your last point. I always enjoy your posts and thought
process, but you will have to convince me that rational, logical and overt work "within the system" is always the answer - when I don't see any
semblance of rationale, logic or transparency within our government.
It is fetid, cankerous and gangrenous. It has co-opted our country, our work ethic, our principles, our laws, our principles, our heritage and a
thousand points of dimming light. Sometimes, a major transfusion is needed, instead of "taking 2 aspirins and calling me in the morning." Yes,
I'm being dramatic and extreme, but no more extreme than our domestic and foreign policies have become.
I am very tired of watching and waiting for "good" men and women to wake up and smell reality. Instead, we keep electing Bush and his ilk. Kerry
was just the frowning half of the Greek theatre masks and no real opposition. When the foxes run the chicken coop, we need to either roust the farmer
from his bed and make sure he brings a shotgun, or set fire to the coop, perhaps, and wake up the barnyard animals.
I'll gladly listen to your reasoning as to why we should try to work within the system to fix it. Hopefully, if some are truly waking up, inside the
system, and are already in power to effectively transform this debacle into some salvageable, though wounded casualty, I'll be more than happy to
hold off pulling the plug.
However, I don't want to wait and wait for a nurse or orderly to realize that the patient is in cardiac arrest, due to physician malfeasance or
incompetence, if I can still clamber off the gurney and sneak out of the asylum in hopes of finding a sane medicine man, somewhere in the wild.
namaste