After writing the story pertaining the current election races in Colorado I realized something that bothered me even further about politics. And I like to open cans of worms so here we go...
The media and campaigns do a great job in each state, city, town, and even down to the district of dividing the people. Division has been burned into our very nature through sports, school, and even competition for jobs. Based on peoples very tribalistic nature it is easy to see why campaigns use this mental game of mudslinging to irk the spirit of people.
But one division that is lost up in the rhetoric, slogans, and constant purposeful reminder of "Red" and "Blue," is the dividing line between the NEEDS of the people and the WANTS of the Corporations.
Failing to hear the warnings of past presidents like Abraham Lincoln who had the fore-sight to see the corporate corruption disease about to plague our wonderful country saying, "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Nov. 1st, 1864.
Yes some people are euphoric about the "Republicans" taking back the house and so called balancing power. There is no barometer that measures influence in each candidate in which to see how much each of them serve the corporations as opposed to the blue collar working class of the U.S.
Corporate influence is rampid and knows no bounds. In almost every case you can see in American politics there is a financial backing of campaigns and promises those candidates must deliver to those investors.
In every campaign meeting there are lobbyist who serve the best interest of the banks and corporations who are purposely de-industrializing the U.S. For as Maurice Strong Chair of the UN said in the Rio De Janero Earth Summit meeting of 1992, ""Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?"
Read Larry Flint's(who a huge propnent of the 1st Amendment and a billionaire) article pertaining to the corporations entitled Common Sense 2009 which was published in the Huffington Post.
While the average American understands very little about the concept of a paradigm shift, politicans, lobbyist, and globalist understand the concept very well.
While some may say conservatives are isolating a large population of people who do not share their views. I say the value systems of people in "Red" states greatly reflect the nature of their state. In states with high city populations and mega cities like California, New York, and Massachucets it is easy to see how values and morals are constructed due to the lifestyle.
In contrast the states with higher rural populations like Georgia, Wyoming, Montana, and Kansas have historically favored conservative values that reflect their lifestyle.
Regardless of political affiliation what all people must realize is that there is line in the sand. On one side stands the corporations, globalist, and their Mc Donald fed zombies, and on the other stands the heart of the American people and the movement for localization, smaller government and less corporate influence.
Corporations share the same rights as a human being for over a millenia, which to me will never make sense or be justified... thank you 14th Amendment.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/corporation-person1.htm
My point I leave to you is that beneath all the hoopla and distraction of the elections, are fundemental differences that know no party lines. Corporate power has waged war on the American public and politics has taken up their marketing mantle of the Hegelian Dialectic: Pepsi v. Coke, Burger King v. Mc Donalds, AT&T v Verizon, Yankees v Red Sox, Dark v Light, Black v. White, Gay v. Straight, Red v Blue all while serving it up as a lovely plate of delicious entertainment for us to feast on "playing on the prejudices of the people."
While people have forgotten the warning of MLK Jr., "I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
Allowing the corporations to rule has pulled us close to a "thing oriented society," while racism, materialism, and militarism have plagued our country.
Antonio C. Valenzuela
National Honor Socitey in Psychology
contributor to The Metropolitan
Political Atheist
ontoneyo@hotmail.com
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