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sewg1941 82F

11/21/2017 10:43 pm

Are there any real leaders in the world today or are they all bargin basement knock-offs of what we would like to have in office? It doesn't seem to matter where we look in the world there is corruption, greed, and larceny, not to mention the sexual abusers that fill the newspapers and late night TV shows.

There is something wrong with the political process when a person needs megabucks to run for office. Only the wealthy have the money and contacts to run and where their wealth comes from is always highly questionable. Trump didn't need to 'buy' the Whitehouse with dirty money... he had his own.

God help the common man and woman in the USA to make a better choice next time, and keep the country safe until then... and the same goes for Canadians... Justin isn't Pierre!


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
11/22/2017 3:23 am

the thing about politicians is they do what they think works. they have grown accustomed to try to do what works.
the idea of integrity and conscience, doesn't seem to work.

what Obama showed is when you you speak the truth, people need to find the lies
What Trump is showing us, that when you speak the lies, people find the truth.

So it seems truth and lies don't really matter..

It' s the easy way out to blame the politicians, but really we make the politicians who they are.

Anyway the mirror is the best to start to solve this..
good thoughts in this blog


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
11/22/2017 3:01 pm

What I notice about the American Nationalism on this site is that it is usually based on abstractions like flags, statues, songs, symbology, metaphors,
ideas, laws, economy.........and how seldom it is about the land itself......The actual,
physical mountains, rivers, forests...........The Land seems under-represented........oh, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilled.....aint nothin........so seldom do I see any reference to the Land.


jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
11/23/2017 6:58 am

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    What I notice about the American Nationalism on this site is that it is usually based on abstractions like flags, statues, songs, symbology, metaphors,
    ideas, laws, economy.........and how seldom it is about the land itself......The actual,
    physical mountains, rivers, forests...........The Land seems under-represented........oh, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilled.....aint nothin........so seldom do I see any reference to the Land.
The abstractions you talk about were once NOT abstract. they were real, and encompassed all the realities of America. Although they represented ideals, they represented what we HAD, not what what we wanted them to be. Purple mountains majesty and amber waves of grain... are both ideals and a reality of what we once had, and what we represented at the same time.

What we once saw as an agreement to our symbolism is being destroyed. Both by Right who wish to defend and protect it, and by the Left who wish to challenge it, so as to fulfill it's idealistic meaning. With little regards to the positive realities, but only see the negative reality they wish to change..
The thing about our American symbolism.. is it's not an agreement, it is in itself the reality. It can only be represented by what we have and what we are.. and not by what we don't have, what we lost, or what we want to become.

This is not a "new" beginning.... it all began sixty years ago, with the Vietnam War that twisted our symbolism....it's now ending with the internet and in the voices of opposition..

The Left needs to stop trying to promote ideals, and start defending and protecting against those who would destroy our ideals.. The Right needs to start promoting reality and truth.
In doing so, they will not oppose each other, but fight the same battle.

The symbolism.. that is twisted to reflect itself, in the burning of a flag, removing a statue, kneeling during the anthem, Black and Brown and White, Middle America and the Coasts, the rich and poor, liberalism and conservatism. and Love and Hate... will become meaningless.
American symbolism then won't be an agreement, won't be what you think it is, won't be what what you want it to be.... and maybe, then, we can return to when it represented what we had.....It will be..... what it is
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jiminycricket1 73M
13732 posts
11/24/2017 6:35 am

When I see our flag waving in the sky. It's symbolism to me, is my protection, it's my power, it's my love, it's my country.
My symbolism of the flag cannot be controlled. It's just the opposite.
I do not control the flag...... the flag controls me.
I do not judge the flag... the flag judges me.
The ideals represented in the flag, are not mine to change. I do not change the symbolism of the flag, the symbolism of the flag changes me.
The flag is not part of me.. I am part of the flag... a single stripe or star ,that had no meaning standing alone.
The colors of the flag aren't separate but equal. the colors know not white, brown or black.. The meaning of Red White and Blue.. is not separate colors, it is one color, one meaning.

Now, we need to deal with the true issue of Nationalism. To control, to judge, to change, the meaning of the flag. To separate the stars from the stripes, to bleed on the colors. To own it, and for it... to own itself up to you.

Silly people with silly ideas who know not what they have.

It is my fear, not for me because I still have it. But future generations, who will not understand the power that the flag gives to me, and not the power I give to the flag.


Rentier1

12/21/2017 10:27 am

    Quoting sewg1941:
    Are there any real leaders in the world today or are they all bargin basement knock-offs of what we would like to have in office? It doesn't seem to matter where we look in the world there is corruption, greed, and larceny, not to mention the sexual abusers that fill the newspapers and late night TV shows.

    There is something wrong with the political process when a person needs megabucks to run for office. Only the wealthy have the money and contacts to run and where their wealth comes from is always highly questionable. Trump didn't need to 'buy' the Whitehouse with dirty money... he had his own.

    God help the common man and woman in the USA to make a better choice next time, and keep the country safe until then... and the same goes for Canadians... Justin isn't Pierre!
Angela Merkel.