The latest political farce going on now in the so-called Republican primary is certainly a basis for a bad Hollywood movie script that should be trashed when finished. I write this knowing that little will change regardless of which Republican is finally selected. And when the day is done after the election is over little will be done to solve the problems facing America.
The problems will not be resolved by the likes of these candidates or any President elected in the 2012 election because of the reluctance of the American people to force an honest look at the real problems facing the country.
Many of the talked about issues are so-called wedge issues: Republicans say they want less government but wedge issues directly put government in the face of individual rights. For example, the abortion issue. Why not let God settle the abortion question on judgement day and have government stay out of the business. Perhaps God can handle it better than Republicans or government can.
We the people are more interested in a publicity or fantasy television-like political script that demeans the participants, shows their dirty underwear, and their lack of moral constraint than to be interested in presenting issues and solving the problems faced by everyday working men and women.
Perhaps this interest was created by the American’s desire for satisfying a deprivation of a need for watching anything that distorts the actual realities of life similar to a Survivor/ show. However, the problems Americans’ face are real and without the peoples’ concerted efforts to understand the present issues and their resolutions is a potential disaster for the country.
Todays primaries are a joke; hype, super hype, change the world tomorrow if elected crap now fills the airways.
Presently, there is little attention given to the real issues by the public and the press. There is little attention given to the issues by the politicians whether they be Democrat , Republican or Independent. The media has talk shows that distill the issues but eventually put a spin on the question and the possible resolution and the real issue is lost and the spin goes unchallenged. Americans’ have not yet grasp the magnitude of the challenges that they face in today’s times because of these twisted diatribes.
Unfortunately, real problems are present; real solutions too are available for resolving our disastrous present course of destruction, but there is no consensus that the problems are real, or the resolutions can actually fix the problems. Why is this?
Minimizing and deflecting real issues are in the political and politician’s’ interest, but not in the public’ interest. Political interests are to get elected and as people like watching a TV show, the more radical the statements, the more intense the disdain for the opponent, the better the TV ratings and the press coverage. The Newter proved this to be true when in the South Carolina debates he challenged the press by admonishing the moderator for asking a question about the Newter’s marriage. The Newter shot the questioner and won the debate!
The response got the Newter in the headlines; in the eleventh-hour of the election, he made the hail-marry Blab, Blab, Blab about the question and he was South Carolina’s new flavor of the election. He too won it: this is problem solving in real action. America should be proud!
So what are the real problems?
Briefly stated in a one-or two-word category:
- education, deficits and debt, energy, and climate change,employment
The solutions: collective action and collective sacrifice. Meaning there has to be a consensious about the issues we are facing and a direction of uniting Americans’ to acknowledge the issues and resolve to respond positively to the solutions. Easily said but all most impossible to do.
Like Winston Churchill said, “America will always do the right thing, but only after exhausting all other options.”
The sooner Americans’ recogiize the issues the better. That acknowledgement may set us on a road to recovery, but it will not be a road traveled without an understanding of the world we are living in and the acknowledgement that our political system is as flawed as the politicians that we have elected.
Just by watching the Reality Show of the Republican Primary you can understand the American delima.
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