Mark Twain made many statements.
Most were pithy and funny. But most were also heavily tinged with ageless
truth. They served the American public back in his day and still do today. Here’s one:
“It’s
easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”
Sound familiar? Is it apt today?
The ideologues among us want us to believe their spin but offer no logical
sequence of facts to support their message. That’s political science don’t you
know: the art of getting people to act on your opinion against their own
interests. Sad reality and maybe cynical. But cynical doesn’t mean wrong, does
it? It is often the truth.
Bernie Sanders is the Independent
Senator from Vermont .
He offers many good ideas to think on. Here’s one:
“They talk about class warfare –
the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last 30 years.
It’s a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and
working-class of this country.
And the result is you now have in
America the most unequal
distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst
inequality in America America
More than the 400 billionaires are
the ideologues who have lesser wealth but dream of obtaining more at the cost
of the many. So the 400 have help by many millions of other wannabes.
Anonymous from the Internet gives
us another political thought to think about:
“If
the sanctity of marriage is so important,
where are the people protesting cheating and
divorce?”
As John Lennon
said,
“It matters not who you love,
where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love; it matters only
that you love.”
He made that statement in the
context of accepting people’s love whether gay or straight and whether in holy
matrimony or not. Rather we love and live than live a loveless life. The latter
is problematical for the rest of us no matter what. It’s time that imbalance
was corrected, don’t you think?
Rocky came upon the following
quote. It appears to summarize well our thoughts on several points being
discussed this political season:
“Just
to set the record straight:
I
don’t want free healthcare; I want affordable healthcare.
I
don’t want money for nothing; I want the opportunity for a good job.
I don’t expect every election to
bring the result I want; I just want my vote to count.
I don’t want businesses to be
unprofitable; I want them out of the regulatory and political processes.
I don’t want the wealthiest
Americans to pay for everything; I want them to pay their share.
Reject
the propaganda, embrace the truth.”
I add, make those points evident on
election day.
Bill Clinton provides this
guidance:
“The Republicans have been really
very straightforward in what they want to do. It’s not just repeal health care.
They want to repeal the student loan reform. They want to repeal the financial
oversight. They want to move toward privatizing Social Security and Medicare.
They want to do, in short, what they’ve wanted to do for 30 years.”
Don’t let them do that.
October 17, 2012
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