This week has been interesting. Between delving into Sandel's JUSTICE, and considering the merits of of consent in terms of the social contract, I once again relized that anarchy was the only solution.
The Diane Reemes show was a travesty of unworthy politicians again today. The only thing I hate more than her shrill, ponderous voice is when one of those brats makes a comment like, "We are in this together." And then tries to give us the reason why we should either pay more taxes, or reduce government spending. The concepts of this aside, one thing I just don't understand (its not that I don't understand it as much as I don't understand how they think someone like me doesn't notice) is how politicians can use the same cliched terminology, or mixed metaphorical phrases over and over and think that anyone is actually comprehending the true issue. The real problem isn't that no one is listening, the real problem is that they are listening. What they are listening to—is usless rhetoric and political propoganda.
I actually think it is rather funny when NPR has politicians on, because then they almost start to sound like FOX or CNN or any republican commentator of your choosing, but usually with a left leaning tilt. Interestingly NPR cited a study done by intependent group after their CEOs debacle with a couple fake reps from ACORN, that said in the previous year NPR had far more republican politicians on their programs then democrats. First, I thought it rather silly that NPR would spend as much time as they did trying to clear their reputation, it made them sound needy. For almost two weeks there wasn't a day that didn't have a story about wether NPR is biased or not. Second, this particular statistic doesn't really have any effect on whether or not individuals within NPR are biased. When you listen to republicans on NPR they are usually being berated with the "tough questions" from whatever host and listeners, while democrats are generally being embraced or asked by Reemes, "Do you think Obama's speech went far enough?" As if that doesn't show where her sympathy lies.
God, look, I don't even know why I got into this today, but that had just been weighing on me so I thought I'd put it out. That last paragraph is an example of why American's are stupid. Anyone who believes that the Government or any politician, right or left will somehow come to the rescue of the average American is dilusional as fuck.
You want to hear my solution to the coming debt and budget crisis. Simple. We do what a lot of other nations have done when their government spent too much and gave kick backs to the rich. We have a revolution. You may remember Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and the rest of the royals obese spending habits prior to the French Revolution. Perhaps you will notice the similarities between the France's intervention in the American revolution just years prior and the massive debt it left with to the United States' intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya.
The only way to get out of this mess is to say to the world, "Hey we are the people that live here, the politicians, the government has failed us. They don't represent us, and guess what we are responsible for their debt." Then we take Obama, Bush, and every current and former member of the house and senate and send them to the International Court and have them all tried for war crimes, theft, and fraud.
Open shut case. The only one who would be aquitted: Ron Paul.
