Politics Today... a random look at the past, babies, Bob Marley and nomadic Israelites

To all Straight ticket voters.... you are fools. Well let me tone that down a little. I say fool when I mean ignorant. I say ignorant because you have ears but choose to not hear and eyes that you prefer to keep closed. I have a mouth and fingers and I am going to use them a little more often. In my opinion, when you vote a straight ticket you are basically saying, "What ever pops out that blue or red door is going to be exactly what I want and need." Try using that same logic when you purchase stocks.

This campaign has really been frustrating. Infact the whole political scene is insane. Can't anyone see that this campaign is like 2 people arguing in the front seat while driving a car whose breaks have just failed?

I have been reading that many Democrats are annoyed that McCain called to suspend the campaign in order to actually do the job that he was elected to do. He had agreed privately with Sen. Obama to work jointly with him on this issue. McCain then made these plans public. Democrats were infuriated and called the move "politically motivated." Of course it was and it just so happens to be what they should be doing. Are the Senators supposed to stay out of the debate or vote without being informed? Are they mad that Sen. McCain was first to publicly announce the plan that he and Sen. Obama had discussed on the phone. Did they feel that this move hurt Obama because it may have given McCain a few leadership points?

We are the kids in the back seat of this domestic vehicle. At a time like this do we take sides in the argument and join the idiocy or do we say, "SHUT UP you fools, look at the road! We lost our breaks and you can resume this argument after you help each other to get this runaway car (economy) to stop. Or their will be no car to stop."

I don't care if you are Chinese American, African American, Euromix-American, or an African-Caucasian (which most African Americans are), it has nothing to do with who can successfully navigate and hit the breaks.

Again I'm sick of this country's ignorance to big problems and their extreme partisan politics. The Democratic party has turned into a pseudo-guilt ridden, patronizing, socialist-like Multi-Level Marketing scheme. Their pandering to minorities with enslaving and social-undermining entitlement programs and their hypocrisy in condemning large corporations is ridiculous.

The African American community is facing a dilemma as well. Do they vote with what they individually feel will be best for the country or do they vote with a spirit of ethnic nepatism stemming from the emotional fire whose coals have constantly been blown by the bellowing extremists and self promoters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and those public figures and celebrities who are ridden with guilt ex nihilo. Was there slavery? Yes, and it was terrible. Was there racism? Yes, and it was terrible. Is there still racism. Yes, it is terrible, but the difference is it now it runs both ways. The amount of racism inflicted by the historic oppessor is waning while that of the historically oppressed is growing exponentially.

Society and the media (to their credit) have successfully crushed publicly those who have retained the historic mind set. However, the problem is that when you look for balance on this seesaw of equality you often throw so much weight to one side the other gets launched off the seat altogether. In the end everyone ends up on their backside and you return to square one.

We can take a social lesson from the prophet Moses and the Israelites in the Old Testament. Having recently been emancipated from Egyptian enslavement, the God of the Bible could have easily given the land of Egypt to them. According to the account Egypt was basically decimated and would have been easy prey for a nation backed by their one true God.

But what did He have Moses do? He removed them from their situation. Just because they had been emancipated physically didn't mean that they now were free in their mind. By removing them from their captors they were now free to rise or fall based upon their own merits. Moses and the God of the Bible gave them the opportunity to do this immediately with the first set of commandments which basically gave them a shot at small government. They chose instead to retain the entrenched mindset of their ex-captors, even building the sculptures of gods that they had become accustomed to seeing. They were used to their basic needs (food, shelter, protection) being met by their masters and now they were asked to have personal responsibility.

Seeing that they could not govern themselves with a basic set of commandments, God gave them a book of rules that would dictate every facet of their lives. Talk about Big Government!! They made it clear that responsibility was something that scared them and that they wanted to have a master, so they asked and received.

God instituted a Welfare program through a water yielding rock in the desert and some sort of airborne edible snow called Manna. The deal was if they followed instructions that they would get this stuff everyday but the Sabbath. After awhile this became the norm and they felt entitled to it, almost like they deserved it just for living. So they started to push more demands to the leadership. "Hey this free stuff you are giving us just isn't cutting it anymore, we want meat, enough with the bread!" Their request was approved.

Is there any wonder why they wandered around in the desert for 40 years? Or why the entire generation of adults needed to pass away including Moses before they entered the promised Land? They had to wait until they had developed into a group that was truly free in their mind, that understood that government is there as a template, an infrastructure to provide the protections necessary for civilization and personal development. Bob Marley had it half right "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds." It's just that you can't have your mind clouded with pot if you really want a freed mind. Our African American leaders need to preach this concept of personal responsibility. If they do, they will do more for their comrades-in-epidermis then anything done previously. The, "HE is keeping you down will change to We (all humans) have the God-given ability to pull ourselves up, adversity what adversity! I'll chop it down and build myself a staircase with adversity, Amen!"

The Republican Party is another story. Somehow other core Republican standards took a back seat to extremely important but very narrow issues like abortion, the definition of marriage, immigration, capital punishment, affirmative action, and terrorism. Both parties love dirty bathwater, where else can you hide a whole lot of pork and earmarks. Democrats and Republicans do all sorts of polling, figure out which issues are their predominant demographic's cutest babies and then they insert the precious little ones amidst the muck. They then hold the tub-ridden infant hostage and will only release the baby if you promise to choke down the bathwater.

There should be strong supporters for these issues in both parties. Where does it say that if you are a democrat you must oppose prayer at school or be a tree-hugger. Where does it say that if you are a Republican you have to deny that any action we take on the environment will have an equal and opposite reaction or consequence to it. Does a Republican have to be Christian? Or does a Christian have to be a Republican? These issues are being taken hostage by extreme elements in both parties. No one today can truly pick a party that completely coincides with the beliefs that they hold deep within their own souls; free from the media, political correctness, and peer pressure.

By targeting the cute infant issues Republicans empowered a sleeping evangelical volcano. Many evangelicals literally believe that God is running the Republican party and that logically the Devil is running the Democrats. They have turned it into a good versus evil fight. Sadly the Democrats played right into it by not having serious internal debate regarding these same issues. As the Republicans targeted, isolated and then held these moral issues hostage, those with an opposing view on these narrow issues increasingly fled their respective parties. Some resided in Independency while other slowly adopted the culture of their new home. Party representatives, instead of standing up for their personal convictions, bowed to the new polls which said that the majority of their remaining supporters were in favor of specific issues.