Originally Posted by
3FLryan
Ok , after writing this i realized that it was a bit lengthly response to yours. Please do not look at it as a rebuttal or attack on your ideas or your previous comment, this is not how i wrote it. As i was writing it i found that a few more ideas have opened up in my mind and i would like to contemplate them further. Actually any input you may have may prove to be valuable...
"What do you stand for? what would you propose?"
I am no expert in political activity, although i do follow the mindset at times and the human decisions that lead to political mistakes. By not voting or destroying a ballot would alleviate the owness of responsibility for those mistakes. {" For being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning that knowledge creates direct consequences for the result"} The conditioning of humans and citizens of a particular nation to react in certain calculated ways and to be more influenced by their governments than their own thoughts and actions is a necessity of any governing force. This is where i get the 'illusion' aspect of politics.
Saying this, I am more into human behaviour and the future (extrapolated) consequences of those actions resulting from an imposition upon a nation by a governing force. Today, people are not fit to govern themselves, they have given up their self-reliance and political clout to the few who make decisions easier for them, so eventually they do not have to decide at all. (this is evident in the last election whether some belive that it was rigged or not..i don't care to see it as a real election or a deceptive one)
For me Democrat and Republican have always been an illusion of two competing forces, presented to the public as democracy, that use each other to influence and instill their own terms and collusions on those who 'vote' for them. Wether you vote donkey or elephant does not matter as long as at the time of voting there is a large degree of public acceptance. When there is a split, it makes it much easier for a nation to go to war and further imprison their own people with more laws, regulations, and amendments that make them 'safer'.
Without going too far into policy, if a nation is split in decision of who they want their leader to be and just over half get their way, the other less than half is the one that becomes beat down by the media as those who made the 'wrong' choice. Like the human condition, even a large mass of minorities cannot stand up against a few in power when the decision based on their own Constitution (the supreme law) is made. That would just be un-constuitutional and non- american (maybe even anti- american).
As for what i would propose. A beginning. A push away from general education and into something that challenges a nation to think. For me this is where i believe it can start. A subdued nation of Armchair quaterbacks who know very little about a lot and a lot about very little cannot make the proper rational choice for themselves and country. To me, the governing forces depend upon stupidity of a nation to choose "A" or "B", don't dig any further, don't look too long or hard.
So i guess my issue goes beyond politics and the system in place to the comprising supports that hold up that system and cause its people to exist wanting easy answers and simple choices. Going back to illusions, the choices that they make have been soo boiled down that rational thought about those choices lead them to vote for the sake of voting. "because if i don't vote i cannot complain".
I do not have easy answers for a new political system. This is a task that i do not believe can be decided by one person, it would be a Dictatorship. But what i do believe in is a nation that may one day have the want to be intellectual and gain as much knowledge about the many contributing forces to their world. Maybe from then on a new system can come about through asking questions and not just accepting things until they can think otherwise.[/b]
