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Scott Brown was sworn in yesterday as Massachusetts’s junior senator. He completes the GOP’s 41-59 majority.
Playing politics. As if they don’t already have enough nonsense to cover, posters find the Super Bowl to be partisan issue.
Harold Ford Jr. and RNC Chairman Michael Steele squared off last night in a debate for America’s future.
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Hey, I’m a UMBC Alumni (August 2009) and I just wanted to say that I am glad to see that students are using this blog to address political issues, but I would also like to say that regardless of the GOP’s majority in the Senate, President Obama will still have a lot of challenges facing him if he is trying to get particular pieces of legislation through. Firstly, I would say that there are already a handful of moderate liberals that make up both the Senate and the House who are serving their constituencies on a level of humanism rather than liberalism.
As an ideology, liberalism is inherently flawed because it does not consider the people that a leader must serve. Conservatism, on the other hand, makes far too strong of a consideration of the people, so much so that big government social program such as public health care cannot function in a way that truly gets action done. So, as you see here, there are two very vast extremes.
Obama has met with the House Republicans to discuss some of his legislation, blatantly stating that their perspectives on his policy approaches accuse him of being socialist. Well, the issue with socialism is that, quite frankly, our nation is not ready to implement such an ideology in a way that accommodates for all people. So, you basically have a series of people who will be disenfranchised by public health care, particularly people who live in inner cities and very isolated rural areas, as they are very limited in resources already due to their ecological position.
There’s an excellent book written a few years ago by Bill McKibben. It’s called “Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.” It talks about the pragmatics of ecological economics, an emerging field at the University of Vermont, that really addresses how midpoints in our free market economic agenda can be thoughtfully executed through cultural sustenance. That’s where anthropology and cultural conservation are absolutely necessary.
Without forming bonds between the people, the group of individuals that a politician represents will be completely disillusioned with his efforts and he will not get anything accomplished in the realistic sense to meet the needs those who appointed him to power.
So, Obama’s approach of bipartisanship is absolutely essential in order for our country to make any advancements. There is too much fragmentation between people, which can only cause further ignorance and further hate.
I’m vexed as to this doctrinaire. On the one hand, a proponent professes the celebration of the individuals sundry differences whilst on the other means to ‘unify’ large tracts of people of which always requires craft or coercion to perform some ‘good’ for the men in power. Sounds like the social engineering psychology and anthropology has been funded to develop over the last century starting back with the ‘philanthropy’ of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
Diffusion of false doctrinaire and information does wonders of confusing people and destroying their critical thinking abilities. Group think prevents free thought by alienation and ignorance abounds. The ‘group’ or mob/cult always reponds to compulsive emotions through declaimation and demogoguery.
Divide and Conquer, artificially elevate B over A. Steal form A and give to B so you will garner the unconditional support of B. A will despise you but that can always be redirected to suit other ends viz., attacking B instead of ‘C’, the true thief.
Keep people fat and happy, well entertained/distracted and dependent on you for sustenance or a sense of ‘purpose’ and they will not lift a finger towards you.
I think people are plenty united in the system as they have so much in common. They all steal from and hate eachother, whether directly or by proxy (the latter the most prevalent). What matter the subtle pretend differences in the reasons for doing so?
Might read ‘The Prince’, ‘The Art of War’, ‘1984′, etc…
And no, there is no such thing as a free market ever existing here. Small elements (as no other system can survive long without it) but largely command economy by indirect means.