I keep thinking about Eugene V. Debs.
I'm going to whine here, I guess.
I feel like the world is standing against me. So many people are standing for war. The people standing against war aren't loud enough. In fact there's no real reason to stand against the war because the current activists aren't going to back up anything they say with teeth. I mean, you elect a person to Congress and they sell out the Fourth Amendment (like the present Congress has done), what do you do? You recall them. You go to the governor and you recall the people. That's something. It'd be better if the people we elected would lock up the government. Force the resolve. They can do it. Shut it down. Stop paying people. Stop going on vacation. Shut down non-essential services. If the government of the American people is not going to act as the voters--the citizens want--then stop the government until it acts as the people want it to act. Why is it all so hard?
Lobbyists. Hillary Clinton says lobbyists stand for average Americans. Okay. According to polls she's supported by the "beer" democrats. The uneducated, blah blah blah. Obama is supported by the "Wine" Democrats. The intellectuals. Is it wrong that I support neither of them? Apparently, Obama did something wrong in Iowa because he complained to a bunch of people about the price of arugula--that's fancy lettuce for you beer drinkers. The people didn't know what Whole Foods or arugula was. On the West Wing, Jed Bartlett, president of the United States, once said that it was his duty to raise the common denominator of the country. I find that to be true. Completely. Now, I think it's a bit stupid to educate the public about the price of arugula in Whole Foods, but it's something. It's getting us somewhere, even if I'd never vote for him. Maybe four years from now. But not now. Senators use to be towering people who commanded respect. Now it's become a pit stop to the presidency. Not that any Senator has been elected president in years.
So I've been thinking about George McGovern too. A well educated Democrat who was destroyed by Richard Nixon in 1972. He would have brought us out of Vietnam. Kucinich is the only one of the Dems who would actually work to remove the troops. Obama wants to put our troops "where they belong," whatever that means.
I keep thinking about education too. I want a degree that will matter. Public policy/administration. I can do something, be there for people. Social policy. Figure out how to help people. I think constantly about volunteering. But I feel like it wouldn't do any good. I know that Annie and I are going to be moving soon. If we can get settled down then I'd love to start volunteering, if I could find something worth while. Gravel's campaign was/is a joke. People refuse to vote for Kucinich, why? I have no clue, he'll do exactly what the base and the populists want done, but no one will vote for him. Maybe because his wife is British?
I NYC, I say boys and girls club groups everywhere. Good things were happening. But I had to wonder, did all that last? Did those kids, when they reached their teens and it was no longer "cool" to go to museums and it became cool to have sex, do drugs, smoke, drink, fight, ditch school, did they? Do they? How bad is it in the end? Does it really make a difference? I just don't know.
For a while, I thought Europe was a place I could go to and be accepted. It took me five months to shut that idea down. They are progressive, more so than the U.S. But they are turning around, leaving their roots of social democracy and turning towards capitalism to save themselves.
You want to save the world? Become an agriculturalist. Learn that science. Learn how to grow food for people. Feed people. Marry a planner/engineer so that they can create the infrastructure. There. I just saved the world.
I feel like the world is standing against me. So many people are standing for war. The people standing against war aren't loud enough. In fact there's no real reason to stand against the war because the current activists aren't going to back up anything they say with teeth. I mean, you elect a person to Congress and they sell out the Fourth Amendment (like the present Congress has done), what do you do? You recall them. You go to the governor and you recall the people. That's something. It'd be better if the people we elected would lock up the government. Force the resolve. They can do it. Shut it down. Stop paying people. Stop going on vacation. Shut down non-essential services. If the government of the American people is not going to act as the voters--the citizens want--then stop the government until it acts as the people want it to act. Why is it all so hard?
Lobbyists. Hillary Clinton says lobbyists stand for average Americans. Okay. According to polls she's supported by the "beer" democrats. The uneducated, blah blah blah. Obama is supported by the "Wine" Democrats. The intellectuals. Is it wrong that I support neither of them? Apparently, Obama did something wrong in Iowa because he complained to a bunch of people about the price of arugula--that's fancy lettuce for you beer drinkers. The people didn't know what Whole Foods or arugula was. On the West Wing, Jed Bartlett, president of the United States, once said that it was his duty to raise the common denominator of the country. I find that to be true. Completely. Now, I think it's a bit stupid to educate the public about the price of arugula in Whole Foods, but it's something. It's getting us somewhere, even if I'd never vote for him. Maybe four years from now. But not now. Senators use to be towering people who commanded respect. Now it's become a pit stop to the presidency. Not that any Senator has been elected president in years.
So I've been thinking about George McGovern too. A well educated Democrat who was destroyed by Richard Nixon in 1972. He would have brought us out of Vietnam. Kucinich is the only one of the Dems who would actually work to remove the troops. Obama wants to put our troops "where they belong," whatever that means.
I keep thinking about education too. I want a degree that will matter. Public policy/administration. I can do something, be there for people. Social policy. Figure out how to help people. I think constantly about volunteering. But I feel like it wouldn't do any good. I know that Annie and I are going to be moving soon. If we can get settled down then I'd love to start volunteering, if I could find something worth while. Gravel's campaign was/is a joke. People refuse to vote for Kucinich, why? I have no clue, he'll do exactly what the base and the populists want done, but no one will vote for him. Maybe because his wife is British?
I NYC, I say boys and girls club groups everywhere. Good things were happening. But I had to wonder, did all that last? Did those kids, when they reached their teens and it was no longer "cool" to go to museums and it became cool to have sex, do drugs, smoke, drink, fight, ditch school, did they? Do they? How bad is it in the end? Does it really make a difference? I just don't know.
For a while, I thought Europe was a place I could go to and be accepted. It took me five months to shut that idea down. They are progressive, more so than the U.S. But they are turning around, leaving their roots of social democracy and turning towards capitalism to save themselves.
You want to save the world? Become an agriculturalist. Learn that science. Learn how to grow food for people. Feed people. Marry a planner/engineer so that they can create the infrastructure. There. I just saved the world.