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[xtremeroswellia]

You are probably all getting tired of my political posts, so I won't force you to sit through another right now. However, georgiaclaire posted a really wonderful blog that pretty much sums up everything I've been trying to say. Except she's done a much better job of it. :P So please, go read this.

And if you think she's half as awesome as I happen to think she is, tell her so!

Comments

[jadehunter.livejournal.com]

Oh, trust me, I don't mind seeing reason on my f-list at all. I spend most of my time resisting the urge to post every day with more updates on the trainwreck that is the McCain/Palin ticket, so...

[xjennifahx.livejournal.com]

I do think that, and I do tell her :P

It was an excellent post.

[tim-80.livejournal.com]

That was a solid post, w/ a lot to make one think, esp. in an election year such as this one. I don't consider myself a liberal, but I agree w/ most of what she said.

In the US we're still hung up on the "bootstrap mentality"; if you work hard enough, you will achieve. Even those who don't succeed and work hard believe that it's their fault, even when it oftentimes isn't. Women in Illinios make about 71 cents for every dollar a man makes. African Americans are still passed up for jobs, promotions, and more African American men are in jail than are in college. Our own history textbooks tell us that if you work hard, you will succeed (because Andrew Carnagie did it, so can you!), and we buy into that, hook, line, and sinker. They don't teach you that most folks are just getting by.

The system has failed us. We have failed ourselves. French philosopher Frantz Fanon once said, "A government and a party get the people they deserve. And in the more or less long term a people gets the government it deserves." If the system doesn't work, you change the system. Our Declaration of Independence states that if our Union is no longer constructive, it should be abolished and a new form of gov't should be built.

Now, I'm not throwing in the towel for the US, but, as I've stated, our system is a clusterhug. When we're one of the only industrialized nations w/o universal healthcare, when our education system is falling apart (George Carlin once observed, "It wasn't that long ago that we were trying to give kids a 'Head Start.' 'Head Start,' 'Left Behind,' someone's losing fucking ground here")..I could go on and on. You get the point. I guess the question is, where and when will that change come.