tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post3010528060487566982..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Secret Moneyhederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-73929277135686486712012-11-09T06:28:51.067-08:002012-11-09T06:28:51.067-08:00Well, blimey.
The bloke won.
But should we be se...Well, blimey.<br /><br />The bloke won.<br /><br />But should we be secure, knowing that BO only won 35% of the "white"<br />vote?<br /><br />Once upon a time, we didn't talk about "ethnic" or "racial" votes, it was<br />all just "Americans." <br /><br />We're so openly partisan, we like to carve up the electorate into its constituent<br />parts and play them off against each other.<br /><br />All this "difference" business is going to turn us into an openly fragmented society.<br />Where once we pretended to get along, now we celebrate or mourn our disagreements <br />as if they were the whole point of democracy.<br /><br />I don't like it. I like to think of my President as just "the President"--not as a "black"<br />President. Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-44494736401453186612012-11-01T10:12:30.429-07:002012-11-01T10:12:30.429-07:00We live in the era of apathy. I'm not sure wh...We live in the era of apathy. I'm not sure what drives it, but it undoubtedly has something to do with the disconnection that has occurred between our bodily selves, and the consequence of remote event and action. <br /><br />We sit in front of our televisions, or our computer screen, or inside our cars, and we see the world passing by. We don't participate in much live action. We're a vicarious people, enjoying the discreet distance of non-involvement. Does it matter if we vote, or not?<br /><br />The world seems to operate according to huge unseen forces, some of them only visible long after the events have taken place. The present seems too huge and immovable to affect.<br /><br />Where does the money come from that influences the world we see? <br /><br />I think the really big money--the capital of petroleum corporations, for instance--cannot be checked. The money that Chevron has, for instance, is much more powerful in its effects than any part of our state government, and probably of our federal government as well. How much money does it take to buy the Congress? Certainly Chevron has more than enough to accomplish that. <br /><br />The business of America is business. And business now runs our political system. Business can make the people vote against their own interest(s). <br /><br />Americans have proven over and over again how stupid they are. This November, they'll prove it again, by electing a corporate raider, who wants to turn the clock back a century. <br /><br />We're a very stupid nation. Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com