Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (Posted June 7, 2012)
I hate politics. Why? I hate them because I'm supposed to. I'm trained to. The powers that be wish it. What's an engaged Buddhist to do? What better way to keep things just the way they are?
No one makes them any more lovable with "corruption," a fancy way of saying corporate money and bribes. The Koch Brothers and the Republicans bought Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's allegiance then kept him in office in spite of what people wanted. He took collective bargaining from public employees because someone told him to. Yawn. Who cares?
Destroying the unions means building up the 1%. Vee vill do vut vee are toldt, and vee vill like it! That's the worst thing, corruption. But the second worst thing is how disappointing and ineffectual Democrats are. Such weakness and powerlessness-when-in-power can't be real. B.S. Obama can't be that bad of a negotiator.
Any party in power is bad, but what "opposition" are we ever given? Does NPR raise a voice to do more than lean left on social matters while taking a hard swing to the right on all things fiscal? The whole country is socially liberal (whether they admit it or not) and fiscally conservative (as we get economically squeezed to the breaking point).
Let's make the bad times holidays so we can have guilt-ridden good times.
FOX News is the right wing, the Red Ties. MSNBC is the "left" wing, the Blue Ties. (Bloods vs. Crips). Because both parties want the same things, they never really work against each other's interests. Whoever wins, the most important thing is that the two-party system stay in place.
The mainstream media kills any third party dreams, any enthusiasm, any attempt to vote. We don't regard voting as a thing we need to do. We consider it a burden. So only activist old women of a particular race get excited about what "needs to be done."
The mainstream media kills any third party dreams, any enthusiasm, any attempt to vote. We don't regard voting as a thing we need to do. We consider it a burden. So only activist old women of a particular race get excited about what "needs to be done."
Rachel Maddow, corporate "commie pinko" voice in a short haircut
How did white Afrikaners keep black South Africans enslaved for so long? The same way the minority party (Republicans) keeps the masses (Democrats and Independents) confused and barking up the wrong trees. PR decides whom we vote for, not us. We do not decide what we do. On the bright side in California, after a gang of policemen slowly and brutally tortured and murdered a homeless/mentally incapacitated man (Kelly Thomas) in public, two gang members are being prosecuted for the "accident." And three Fullerton City Council members were thrown out of office for how they handled it.
Who will save us from GOP-TV FOX? Simpsons, suggests good Maddow.
Tuesday elections also saw the demise of LA City Attorney (prosecutor) Carmen Trutanich's ambitions. Trutanich, an enemy of the Occupy Movement and LA artists, lost his bid to become District Attorney in a stunning upset. He didn't even win a spot in the run off. Will racial profiling continue as police stop, frisk, and beat? Will Obama continue to act like a member of the Bush Administration? Is anyone enough to care?
If it weren't for Seth MacFarlane's humor, what would the country do?
News in paradise, FOX (Network) News, which is SoCal local news lite
