4 years later

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[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

One of our problems is we deny our own culpability in all this mess. If more than half of the population of the country had voted in the last Presidential election things might have been different. En masse, we don't give a damn, until we need to, then we blame the mouthpieces, or the ordinary soldiers, or the simple folk told from above what to say (that they may pay their mortgages - such is wage slavery).
So we project our guilt (for our ignorance and our culpability) onto whomsoever.
Strange Fruit.
And it doesn't solve the problems. Just makes us feel better about ourselves, so we can ignore the problem again, because after Hillary or Barak, it will be another person funded by the giant corporations. And just like Bush or Clinton or Bush or Reagan, when you know who pays your check, you know who your friends are.
I wonder, technically speaking, are any late capitalist countries really democracies?
Or are they all just accepting of their circumstances and delusional?

[readwriteblue.livejournal.com]

You seem so, down and reading the replies you received earlier I can see why.

/sympathy

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Thank you for you courtesy, m'dear.
I hate the mob mentality when I see it: it often leads to someone being strung up from a tree. I hated it when I saw it from the right, I equally hate it when I see it from the left or the centre. There's no point in trying to sustain any political position's moral advantage if all sides are equally bonkers.
Some of us should be keeping clear heads. Perhaps the rational on the Left and Right should start setting examples.
As for me, I've got to the Pontius Pilate stage of the debate.
I'll send for a bowl of water and a towel.

[readwriteblue.livejournal.com]

I would ammmend you statement slightly

I hate the mob mentality when I see it: it often leads to someone being strung up from a tree. I hated it when I saw it from the right them, I equally hate it when I see it from the left or the centre us more. *

Not that I would ever put words in your mouth, but I feel this states it more clearly.

The corrosive and destructive power of Hate is limitless. It is well thought of as the darkside in each of us. I have been
thinking on this topic for a long time.

* hat tip to my teacher kip_w

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

My political position these days is acutely cynical. I am predisposed, because of my history, to the left, but I am too cynical to believe anything a polician from either the left or the right says. Which seems profoundly negative, so I try to adopt a middle-ground position, but one dependent upon morality and humanity rather than one of political bias. Fairness strikes me as appropriate, as does balance.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

sp politician rather than polician.