Saturday, May 11, 2013

The apathy in our country

I was thinking about something last night that got me wondering, and then I thought back to how my own mother (whom mind you I next to never speak to any more since she insists on being the center of the universe and expects everyone to bow down before her, yeah right) used to be so anti-political it amazed everyone, but then again she had two reasons for this, 1)she didn't want to do jury duty and believed that once she registered that would set her up for being called up (she found out other wise when she was still called up for jury duty and discovered that the state of California runs it off of your ID/Driver's licence number and not voter registration), and 2) she was apathetic in the entire thing thinking that her vote wouldn't count.

Kicker is, unlike in the movie "Swing Vote" with Kevin Costner (great movie by the way, I highly recommend it), every vote does count, but one can't see that. Now there are others out there that happen to think that doesn't matter if one happens to vote or not, it's still all decided by the electoral college, that it doesn't matter what the rest of the state votes they'll still vote for whom they want to vote for in the first place. Now this right here is only partly true, however unlike the Bush scandal that happened back in 2000 (and it was a scandal since the Supreme Court should never have decided something that the people had already decided, and handed Bush the White House in the first place), these days it's mostly decided by the popular vote in the end. After all if it hadn't been for the popular vote, then we actually wouldn't have a democratic President in the White House currently. Thing is Obama won in both times by both the college and the popular vote.

Wait, wait, wait, did I just write that...actually yes I did, considering that after EVERYTHING that Bush had done during his time in office, the people were completely not only fed up with everything that had happened and what was going on, but it was seriously time for not only a major change, but the start of something bigger that the Republicans have been fighting ever since Obama won the White House. Now in the first election that Obama won, one might end up calling it a major land slide. However the same cannot be said for this past election, since the Republicans pulled out almost all the stops in order to try and topple Obama from the seat of the President to regain their power that they had. It was an extremely narrow victory for the Democrats considering that the Republicans were using just about EVERY dirty trick that they knew of and that included the TEA Party fear mongering that was brought up by the Koch brothers (of course my stupidity at the kept pronouncing them Kosh instead of coke, didn't know till I heard it over the radio what it really was, hate when that happens).

The one thing that was brought up BIG TIME in this country was the one thing that had almost been wiped out thanks to what Bush did during his run, and that was the apathy that this country had in thinking that there was nothing that they could do in order to be able to bring about the change needed to make this country better. Of course with radio and 24/7 news cable channels running their hate games 24/7. The only kicker that the Republicans couldn't deal with was that they had NO ONE that could actually stand up to President Obama in the least. After all their last resort that they nominated was a Mormon that everyone could see sided with BIG business and the corporations. Hell he even said it himself "Corporations are people too", that right there was the biggest idiot move of all times, and in this day and age of social media, he was NEVER going to get away from that one EVER.

However that little problem is still around, and considering that the next election (barring the special ones) is in 2014, it means that the Republicans are going to do what ever it takes, (and I really do mean WHAT EVER IT TAKES) in order to be able to make sure that anyone that the Democrats put up will be taken down. However EVERYONE already knows who's going to be running on the Democrats side of the political wagon, and that's going to be Hillary Clinton (on a side note here, there is a Facebook group that is siding with Hillary and helping her out when it comes to her running for President, it's called Hillary in 2016 for Smart People Only, and you can join and help out, and be sure to add all of your friends as well, don't worry about the Republicans among your friends, they'll be weeded out when they start spewing Republican lies).

The Republicans right now have already started trying to bring down Hillary with lies and redirects all over the place. Hell right now they're trying to say that the Benghazi incident happened because of her. Yeah right, it happened because the Republicans voted for cuts to the security of the embassy, and no one is falling for it, and yet they keep on keeping on. They're trying to bring back the apathy that was around pre-Bush years, and it's only partly working. With the increase that everyone happens to have when it comes to what's being put out there by the Koch TEA Party, Rush Dimbot, and everyone else at Fox Lies, it's only partly working, but not at much as they would like. After all for every time that they happen to put out lies, everyone that happens to know the truth is putting that truth out there. It's something that has to be done in order to fight the hate and fear machine that is the Republican party.

Now there is another side to this entire thing that is also at fault here, a side that I hadn't gotten into before because they've only had a small part to play in all of this, and that's the religious zealots side. I saw a movie once that was based on Joan De Arc, and there was a line that had been said when it came to the church versus the government. "If I want to get money, I have to tax the people and they never like that, for you, all you have to do is offer to get mama out of hell and it'll work every time" and that's what the churches these days do, and guess what it's working like crazy. However there's a hitch that only a few people saw and were able to pass the work on, that the church (doesn't matter the denomination or faith at all) was able to get free reign when it comes to their taxes as long as they could preach politics from the pulpit. Well guess what as long as it was all pro-Republican, they didn't care, and that's exactly what the church's did, and still continue to do to this day. Last I knew doing that was against the law, federal constitutional law at that, however the Republicans aren't willing to do anything about it, and it's so low on the President's radar to the point that it happens to not be there at all. Now I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but considering EVERYTHING else that's currently going on right now, I actually understand this. However (and yeah I know I say that a lot) we know for a fact that they've been preaching to their people who to vote for for each election. After all the Catholic (and I'm highly anti-Catholic, at least to the origination not to the ones that were either raised or blindly follow them), kept telling people that unless they voted for Bush (or for any Republican nominee) they would be committing an unforgivable sin and would burn in hell for all time. Now personally I happen to be Christian (and those that read this on Facebook that are friends of mine can go to my page and see this on the About Page), but I also don't believe that you confess your sins to anyone other than that of Jesus and God Himself. You don't confess crap to a man, don't matter who the hell it happens to be in the first place (personally I don't give a crap if it happens to be the Pope or the next King of England, you don't answer to them for your souls, only to Jesus and God period), and that means that if I've done anything stupid that it might hurt me on the other side I ask for forgiveness from either God or His son Jesus, no one on Earth has the power to forgive you of your sins at all, but the Catholics don't want you to believe that.

In fact the Catholics are so big in themselves thinking that they have such power that their churches (if you look at them from above) look like crosses (even the Catholic church here in Martinez, CA looks like a giant cross laying on the ground, pathetic). The kicker is, they have no power at all, and they're also the biggest idol worshipers of all time, and they make dead people into saints that have no power in the first place. Just look at everything that they've done, and everything that they've brought into their corner of the world from other religions and you'll see that they've screwed up just about everything, and if you don't agree with what they say or do, then your soul will be condemned to hell for all of eternity. Between you and me, I'd say that's a YEAH RIGHT!!!!

Look all in all, there's still a lot of work to be done, but in order to be able to move on forward, and not be held back, we need to get rid of the block that is currently keeping us in place. Now at this point you might be thinking "Well we have advanced computers and smart phones", yeah yeah, we've advanced fast within a couple of years, those right there couldn't be avoided at all. Besides I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about advancing us in ways that would help EVERYONE out at the same time, High speed rails, electric cars, hell hover and flying cars (yeah nod to the Jetsons there), but thanks to the hold backs from the Republicans and their money backers, we're not where we should be in the first place, and it's up to us to change that. But the apathy thing is kicking in again there and that's what ends up stopping us from actually moving forward. After all we've been built up on that if the private industry hasn't done it yet then it's not worth it. I've heard and seen that damned line way too many times, what the hell happened to the dreams that moved this country forward in the first place, I'll tell you what happened, the corporations bought them out and starved them to death and refused to let them live. After all if dreams are allowed to roam free, then the money gets taken out of their hands and put back into the hands of the people were it actually belongs and you can't have that now can you. Nope wouldn't be right :)

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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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