Weaning Ourselves from Partisan Politics - It's Time
Nancy Levant
January 28, 2006
Weaning Ourselves from Partisan Politics – It’s Time
I find that I have a difficult time listening to television news anymore. I find that the imposing nature of broadcasters is just another layer of demanded politics and manipulation, and I am so very tired of being told…everything…from what to wear, what to look like, what to eat, where to shop, who to vote for, and how I should feel and think if I am a good American. I am so damned sick of the insistence that I do and think as I am told, and that any attempt to use my mind, in my way, will by someone be deemed unpatriotic, unsophisticated, or just plain stupid. I would like television media, and specifically politicians, to shut up.
I find that people don’t discuss politics, religion, philosophy, or anything else of substance anymore. We’ve been blaming that on the dinner table for years, but it’s not the table and chairs that have caused the problem. It’s the media. And when people do broach important subjects, they mimic what the media has said. They mimic the broadcasters or the televised speeches memorized by smiling politicians with bleached teeth and heavy make-up. And if you try to insist upon truly personal opinions, one is faced with blank faces that appear startled and slightly frightened of responding.
It is my humble assertion that we, the people, are so emasculated and de-feminized by politicians and their paid media gofers that we have become simply…milk toast ignorant. If we’re on the right, we’re hawks and old-fashioned and religious fanatics and unreasonable and closed-minded and not to be trusted. If we’re on the left we’re conspirators, freaks, stupid, in lala land or Hollywood, Socialists and green eco-nuts. I realize this is pretty low-end stereotyping, but the truth about most of us is that we are neither.
What we are, are God’s creatures, and that makes us a little bit of everything. Just when you think you’ve got a principle nailed down, and it’s yours forever, life throws you a curve that rolls your principle right down the mountain, and you are left wondering about yourself, your world, your faith, and that principle and whether it was worth all the time and effort of your belief. We are here on a difficult learning mission that doesn’t stop with political party platforms. They do not define us. Sadly, however, we seem to have given them the power to believe that they can define us, and by so doing, they have fractured us into 2 sides. This is not good. We are American people, first and foremost – not Democrats and Republicans first and foremost.
And partisan politics plays us like violins, knowing how changeable we are and how we struggle with context, faith, and understanding everyday. We need an alternative to partisan politics. We’ve known forever that it’s dirty, dishonest; corrupt as Hades, and ugly – just really, really ugly business. It damages our spirits. It’s dulls us, just like media, and we need to stop letting it wear us down into apathy and extreme vulnerability. We need to step back from our political definitions and gain some perspective. We need uplifting of the spirit. All we have to do is ask, and receive we shall, but then we need a good place for our uplifted natures to focus, and what better place and reason than a united clean-slate mission.
We need a truthful alternative to partisan politics, and we need it now. And as stupid and naïve as this will sound, we need a mission based upon truth, or the opposite of what we now have in 2-party politics. We need to grow ourselves a party that holds mirrors before elected liars – all of them. Nothing more. They spout complexities and lies, and we catch and report them to the world. Equally, we need a media that is not owned by the 2-party system bankrollers.
As we come to more and more clarity every day, understanding the big picture of global governance and the U.N., it’s public-private partnership bureaucracy, and the corporate implanting of those missions and practices into the cultural systems of the United States; eminent domain, control of water and roads; schools and universities, eco-communities; conglomeration communities governed by conglomeration NGO’s, on and on…clearly, we need a party of truth – plain and simple.
We have a good Constitution in place. It has served the people and history of this country well. What we are missing is truth, legality, and accountability, which are not going to surface in partisan politics. More importantly, the 2 parties are not playing by our rules, the laws of our land, or the Judeo-Christian principle of free will. If, as a nation, we don’t expect truth, we will live in a world founded upon the lies and demands of political others. Our politicians do not define who we are and what we believe. We are free. However, and clearly, we are perceived to be maneuverable idiots. In order that we are not idiots, I suggest that truth become our agenda and mission.
Websites for truthful wisdom:
www.undueinfluence.com/nature_conservancy/html
www.newswithviews.com
I find that I have a difficult time listening to television news anymore. I find that the imposing nature of broadcasters is just another layer of demanded politics and manipulation, and I am so very tired of being told…everything…from what to wear, what to look like, what to eat, where to shop, who to vote for, and how I should feel and think if I am a good American. I am so damned sick of the insistence that I do and think as I am told, and that any attempt to use my mind, in my way, will by someone be deemed unpatriotic, unsophisticated, or just plain stupid. I would like television media, and specifically politicians, to shut up.
I find that people don’t discuss politics, religion, philosophy, or anything else of substance anymore. We’ve been blaming that on the dinner table for years, but it’s not the table and chairs that have caused the problem. It’s the media. And when people do broach important subjects, they mimic what the media has said. They mimic the broadcasters or the televised speeches memorized by smiling politicians with bleached teeth and heavy make-up. And if you try to insist upon truly personal opinions, one is faced with blank faces that appear startled and slightly frightened of responding.
It is my humble assertion that we, the people, are so emasculated and de-feminized by politicians and their paid media gofers that we have become simply…milk toast ignorant. If we’re on the right, we’re hawks and old-fashioned and religious fanatics and unreasonable and closed-minded and not to be trusted. If we’re on the left we’re conspirators, freaks, stupid, in lala land or Hollywood, Socialists and green eco-nuts. I realize this is pretty low-end stereotyping, but the truth about most of us is that we are neither.
What we are, are God’s creatures, and that makes us a little bit of everything. Just when you think you’ve got a principle nailed down, and it’s yours forever, life throws you a curve that rolls your principle right down the mountain, and you are left wondering about yourself, your world, your faith, and that principle and whether it was worth all the time and effort of your belief. We are here on a difficult learning mission that doesn’t stop with political party platforms. They do not define us. Sadly, however, we seem to have given them the power to believe that they can define us, and by so doing, they have fractured us into 2 sides. This is not good. We are American people, first and foremost – not Democrats and Republicans first and foremost.
And partisan politics plays us like violins, knowing how changeable we are and how we struggle with context, faith, and understanding everyday. We need an alternative to partisan politics. We’ve known forever that it’s dirty, dishonest; corrupt as Hades, and ugly – just really, really ugly business. It damages our spirits. It’s dulls us, just like media, and we need to stop letting it wear us down into apathy and extreme vulnerability. We need to step back from our political definitions and gain some perspective. We need uplifting of the spirit. All we have to do is ask, and receive we shall, but then we need a good place for our uplifted natures to focus, and what better place and reason than a united clean-slate mission.
We need a truthful alternative to partisan politics, and we need it now. And as stupid and naïve as this will sound, we need a mission based upon truth, or the opposite of what we now have in 2-party politics. We need to grow ourselves a party that holds mirrors before elected liars – all of them. Nothing more. They spout complexities and lies, and we catch and report them to the world. Equally, we need a media that is not owned by the 2-party system bankrollers.
As we come to more and more clarity every day, understanding the big picture of global governance and the U.N., it’s public-private partnership bureaucracy, and the corporate implanting of those missions and practices into the cultural systems of the United States; eminent domain, control of water and roads; schools and universities, eco-communities; conglomeration communities governed by conglomeration NGO’s, on and on…clearly, we need a party of truth – plain and simple.
We have a good Constitution in place. It has served the people and history of this country well. What we are missing is truth, legality, and accountability, which are not going to surface in partisan politics. More importantly, the 2 parties are not playing by our rules, the laws of our land, or the Judeo-Christian principle of free will. If, as a nation, we don’t expect truth, we will live in a world founded upon the lies and demands of political others. Our politicians do not define who we are and what we believe. We are free. However, and clearly, we are perceived to be maneuverable idiots. In order that we are not idiots, I suggest that truth become our agenda and mission.
Websites for truthful wisdom:
www.undueinfluence.com/nature_conservancy/html
www.newswithviews.com
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