Thursday, April 18, 2013

I might find the means to do this.

     This is probably the worst time to really make a post like this.  I'm going to end up on a list for saying this.  The ability for Congress to make progressive and beneficial decisions for this country seems to be becoming more and more of a exercise in futility.  The idea of causing and effecting mass hysteria in order to change things seems the only way they get anything done, yet with the events of something that caused a new debate on gun control ended in no change, it seems like mass murder of children can't change the minds of how much the Congress likes to get re-elected.  This now makes me think that we should just change the way our elected officials are elected.  In other words, why have we not just made seats in congress only 2 terms?  If people lose focus of what they are there for and just simply want to get re-elected. Why not just eliminate the thing that is distracting them?
     Lobbyists are paying out for agendas, corporations are paying for campaigns anonymously.  It has already gotten way out of hand. I feel an anger and frustration at the way I see our government making no real changes to the way it is.  It is ineffective in making changes, and the "people" of this country don't know what they want either. I watched as the media asked people picketing for change, and were asked what changes did they want?  The couldn't agree on any changes, they just wanted to see change.  This is like asking a 3 year old why they are crying and they respond with "NO!" It isn't helpful it isn't progressive it is just stressful.  The ones that have the best idea of what they want changed are the ones with the funds to make that change.  "What do you want changed?"  "I don't want gun control to change, here is 5 million for your next re-election campaign."
     If there is going to be any change in the current state, there needs to be aggressive and decisive change.  Congress seems to think, that by holding their ideas as rigidly and uncompromising as possible they will stay in office, because by holding true to the people paying for their elections they will in turn be re-elected.  So this polarization is happening.  No one is compromising, no one is listening to the other side.  Congress might as well just be dissolved and just let the richest corporations run that branch of the government,  Just cut out the middle man.  I want to see the money make the choices without the smiling puppet telling me that it has my best interests in mind. 
     This county seems to be again in the grips of a less obvious civil war.  The sides are the screaming, kicking, biting, crying idiots, vs the stubborn, apathetic, lazy, unthinking idiots.  It is doing nothing but spend money. I am sick of hearing people say we should nuke other countries, we should nuke this country.  Then maybe we'll get a reaction that is progressive.  Threaten this countries existence is a more obvious way than they way it is already being threatened.  It seems like the peaceful occupy movement did nothing to change anything.  In fact I am still unclear as to what the hell the occupy movement was suppose to be doing besides making the homeless people in those areas look like not such a bad thing.  Did all these unwashed ineffective activists go out and vote?  Or did that just sit around smoking pot, and playing hacky sack?
     I think doing something as radical as repealing the 2nd amendment would probably work to give Americans something to think about.   It seems to me that Congress wants to do something about gun control but it doesn't want to appear anti gun, so they can become re-elected.  So it will say they will do something be in reality it will just make a lot of long drawn out gestures and in the end do nothing.  I really don't know how long this has been going on.  I've never paid much attention to government for the first couple of decades in my life. I honestly think that most of the country is the same way.  They don't care, they just want to go to work, make money, and not be hassled with the idea of making changes to a system that seems to run fine.  Except it isn't running fine at all.  The younger generation the 20 somethings, seem to point this out like "Hey this isn't working."  They are not active about it and don't care to change anything.  They'd rather just drink and get high, play video games and ignore it.  Until it effects something that they have an interest in.  If a bill came across that would make having cellular phones illegal, suddenly you'd see a huge out cry from these coddled privileged children.  No one in congress will make that kind of move, because they want to get re-elected.  
     Our government needs an inoculation, it needs to be rid of the idea that nothing that happens in the country if it causes it's members of congress to lose their seat.  It causes members of congress to act like spoiled children in order be re-elected.  I'm sick of the way things are, there needs to be a change, not the the people running the government, but in the way the structure is working itself.  The problem isn't the people, the problem is there is a flaw in that system that is corrupting the people.  That exploit needs to be fixed and changes will happen.  If the Government is unable to make this change with it's current elected officials, then they need to simply be removed and replaced with ones that will make this change. Your jobs are not to get re-elected your jobs are to make decisions about this country that effect change for the better of it's people not for the better of the highest bidder.

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