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((I know many don't like to read more than two lines of text, but what is of concern is always more than what can be captioned in two lines of text, or embraced by short attention spans) Hopefully some invest the time to read and then invest the time in thinking... then sharing those thoughts to help us see ways to a better society and nation. ))WE HAVE MUCH TO CONSIDER- OUR FUTURE DEPENDS UPON WHAT WE DO... AND WHOM WE ARE.
For Centuries this nation has lived many lies and made them common place, from the time the Constitution was HIJACKED and claimed to be only for "white men". At such time, it disrespected and disregard women as persons, they were made to be "possessions" and sustained in that cycle, by not allowing them to vote, not allowing them to work, and not allowing their voice and presence in the system of Governance. It went into the extreme vile of becoming the worlds greatest human abusers with its slavery and how it spread the denigration of non white people around the world, devastating the worlds view of black people and placing other ethnicities as second and third tier human beings.
Yet, this nation was "built" by "diverse immigrant labor" and propelled by slave labor to be and make itself wealthy. the premise of such wealth, bred and fed a system that today has its own form of Caste and Class Madness, and still it denigrate women, and minorities and devastate the nature and image of black people to the lowest level it can.
President Obama said: LET'S REBUILD AMERICA, FROM THE BOTTOM UP AND MAKE A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR ALL, HE ALSO SAID, LET "DIPLOMACY" BE OUR MANNER OF WORKING WITH THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
The Right Wing Mentality went stone crazy and attacked from every angle. Sadly, in such attack, it used the poor among the white society to promote and spread this madness. When Fact Is, the poor whites in America, have never been regarded as being anything more than the "Service Class" to the wealthy, paid as if they were still Indentured Servants, while minorities were and are paid, at a rate that is no higher, that it cost to "house and feed a slave".
We have to OPEN OUR MINDS to see the truths... if one is not willing to do that, then get in your vehicle and drive across the city you live and look at the "expanding ghetto's, comprised of White, Hispanic, Immigrant and Black ghetto's. Drive in the country side, and look at the areas that one might even forget they are in America, and they they've driven to some remote 4th world environment. The devastation is horrendous.
The values of the Democratic system is one that considers people and the humaneness of society as a value above the greed cycles of industry, we have to find ways to truly help people learn and understand the meaning of this.
We've seen decades upon decades of industry bringing havoc to the same people that helped it grow and thrive as both consumers of its products and services as well as workers who performed the functions and duties to help it produce and sell. We've also seen the continual rise of the the vile that our university system has taught into the minds of the executives," where greed" is the basis of their motives, and their ideology is trained to still function on a model based in the days of "how to keep the slave owners and industrialist wealthy" and how to keep the people 'in constant need". We've seen the disaster of madness the medical community has been made, where a simple "visit to ER" carries a base cost of $8-9K, for the most basic of services for a stay less than 1 hr. An Ambulance ride, with a cost of $900, as a base cost. Yet, we remain silent about these "fees and cost" because we've been deluded and groomed not to question the medical system and its cost structures.
This will never be addressed by Republican system, it will take Democratic Systems to fix it. We saw that with ACA (Affordable Health Care) , which challenged these cost, and challenged the collusive way they made people bankrupt, and seized peoples homes via liens based on exaggerated billing cost. We saw ACA challenge the Insurance Companies and put a stop to their "denial of benefits" due to pre-existing condition. Yet. all we saw from Right Wing Confederate Idealist, a continual "attack" upon every aspect. They had no basis for the attack, other than to aspire to the ideals of the Confederates, who's Ideal was to provide nothing to the people and make the people pay exhortation cost for anything and everything for the sake of feeding the greed of the Confederate Idealist.
We saw the TRUTH OF THAT, when the Republican Push the Health Care Bill, which should have been labeled "how to kill of 30 million or more people and devastate the elderly and children of the poor to a quick and expedient death. and charge them a high cost to be "slaughtered through their process".
It's time to AWAKEN, We saw the Democrats promote ideals to Restore, "Public Service Community Colleges, that served the people without fleecing them with cost. We saw the Democrats seek to Restore Public Service State Colleges and Universities to be cost effective for the Average Citizen... These things were too, fought against by Republicans who aspire to the Confederate Idealist Model, of "take from the people, use them up and give nothing back, as if the people are simply disposable labor for the enrichment of the wealthy.
That's not what America is about. It is about "Civil Society, that Respects the Civics of Systems that Support Civil Society and the people who make up that society.
What good is greed when it destroys all that it touches, what benefit is wealthy beyond what provides a stable life, when it destroys everything around it and beyond even its own community.
We have Evangelicals who abuse the premise of God teaching, and convert it to Greed seeking, and material measure, while it stand in support of a Republican Agenda that has no respect for the citizen population, no respect for the environment and certainly no respect for Regulatory Governance and even lesser respect for the system of Taxation that helps support and promote Civil Society and the attributes that make our system have infrastructure and stability within and of that infrastructure.
Yes, there is a reason there is Democrats, who respect America and the Civility of People and the Humanness of Society and support the system of Regulatory Governance, which protects, the lands, the people, the societies and their communities and the organizations that make and support the Nation as being America.
It's America's Time to FACE TRUTHS
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Civic Justice
(870 posts)FOR CENTURIES, this nation has a social image that lied to itself about its own society. People walked around and claimed public images of dignity, while they supported multiple centuries of slavery and indenture. Beatings, killings, rapes, and molestation's of not only women, but children and too of boys and men, and they put on their fancy attire and strutted among each other in the town square and public events claiming themselves to be of moral character and dignity.
That lie morphed itself from generations to generations and bled into the ideals that some still hold to this day. But, the vile continues, it was not only of blacks that this vile was done unto, it was engaged upon poor whites and certainly the dire poor whites, whose lives were filled with every sort of ignorance from lack of educations to destitution at a level they could not even think of being educated, for the strains of trying to put food on the table. They were for centuries paid no more than it cost to house and feed a slave, and told they were doing well, because they were being paid, where slaves were not paid. Yet, their lives provided them nothing but enough to rent shelled from the same people who had enslaved others, and enough to buy grain, and in some cases not even enough to properly feed themselves. Then when their crops grew, they were under bid and had to sell it at a loss, which left them indebted to the wealthy, this cycle still continues.
People work jobs, that pay insufficient to meet the proclaimed "standard of living"... it provides maybe a roof, food, and the necessity of transportation, but they can't afford medical care, nor can they save anything, and they live in perpetual debt.
It's time to FACE THE TRUTH... especially when we are bombarded with the battle of the Wealthy, Destroying Jobs, by their incessant cycles of Buying and Taking over companies, and leaving people unemployed and products and services of the lowest grade they can get by with pawning off on the people, by and through "fake advertisements".
We have a mess brewing this very day with the AT&T trying to gobble up Time Warner, all the while these Greed monsters know it will cost 10's of thousands to loose jobs at both companies, and diminish the competitive services that help people by keeping pricing from gouging them by monopolies.
It's America's Time to FACE TRUTHS
We can cites many of these types of madness makings taking place. In Medical Business and Every Other kind of business, and at the core ... its simple Greed. This is what we have created our Universities to Teach, and they have moved these degree riders into position and they are exercising what they've been taught. It's devastating America.
For the same sake of people parading around claiming themselves moral and of character, based on nothing more than money and material things, which they have indulged themselves to "do anything to get". It's like an infection of "Peacock Madness"... Eroding everything in society, for the "haughtiness and fictions that promote self consumed pride, built upon material ideology, and money as their God. We see more people killing their whole family and people claiming depression because they don't have various material things, or they can't be incessant shoppers, or get the newest gadget, even when the old one is still working fine.
Apple, Inc honed in on this madness and make fools of many every 6-9 months, with so called new an overpriced gadget, made with foreign slave wage labor, and pawned off on the vanity of Americans. We've wasted billions and then just months ago discovered the malice of Apple, who "slowed down older units" to force people to buy new ones, and when they got busted they blamed it on claiming they were concerned about the people "battery life", when it did not even provide a means for people to change out the batteries themselves.
We had better become more Aware of the fleecing.. this system was built upon... and learn to teach the young, who can be armed to change the paradigm of how this nation functions, and teach them ethics so they can bring a better character to society. This is likely to be done through the Democratically Taught, because the opposition from the Republican Taught will be a force that will continue to try to keep the old fleecing models firmly in place into the future.
Civic Justice
(870 posts)THE long history of the liberal mind'ed white people to use their voices and their votes for Democracy. For centuries and decades the liberal mind people were under many forms of duress. During slavery and segregation, they were constantly under attack, and in some cases brutalized, made to appear as pariah's in society and in other cases killed for their belief in humane equality of person.
It was not until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that helped protect Liberal Minded White People from the backlash of the Right Wingers, the Racist and the Bigots. Even today, many have not found the full voice, because in some cases they are in areas still surrounded by the types who will attack "liberalism". So many remain silent and just go along with status quo.
That has to change! Even in this site, which is about and for Democrats with Liberal minds, many are still reluctant to speak, and some still struggle with acknowledging the truths beyond their environmental grooming, which for centuries and decades inferred the pressure to remain silent. Today, in some jobs, controlled by the Right Minded Wealthy, Liberals are still silenced for the sake not to be ostracized in their work environments or even loose their jobs if they don't aspire or appear to aspire to Right Wing Ideals.
When they realize within themselves, they have been groomed to be made less free, by the invocations that remanded them to silence and timidity in how they use their voice.
The young today, are not being constrained by that, but we have many people who are first, second generation from Jim Crow Grooming and Constrictions still face the challenge to have and use their voice. Its hard for some to move past the influences that surrounded them in their youth of a post Jim Crow groomed society.
It's time to move past that constrictive containment. Yes, for some its still hard, because it is known to bring rifts in family and even distance from some parents. So, the emotional challenge is great and for some it is overwhelming.
Today, more and more have moved past those constraints. The people in their 20's and 30's today, are more vocal, and the teens of today, are even more vocal as well as more unconstrained in how they build their associations and relations.
A great many things that Black people have said for Decades Upon Decades, only now is there some segments of white society, beginning to see those things as being real, when it has crossed their doors steps, and suddenly their eyes are opened by the despair they are seeing and finding in their own lives, which mirror the things black people have said for decades long ago.
It's time America FACE TRUTHS....
I've written so much about these truths on CD,(City Data) and it was "all" attacked by Right Wingers, who refuse to learn and certainly refuse to face truth, and are determined not the change.
Here when a friend recommended this site, they said, it was of Democratic minded people, who are engaging and do face and want to face the many truths that have been hidden, buried and fought against. I am writing to appeal to those minds, and those individuals who are not afraid to look back, pursue to uncover the truth, and with the will and heart to face the truths, and help in the building of a better Democracy for ALL.
