Saturday, February 11, 2012

He Who Frames The Issues

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All of good faith are betrayed, and most of ANY SIDE are too easily misled to care. Simply put, the middle class is not represented. Why?  In main, it has been divided to be served as the main course, rather than to be served in its own interests.  The game is now about competing for turns for overlordship.  Issues aren't addressed in terms of middle-class common sense. Rather, issues are reframed to appeal to oligarchic cronies and unionized gangs intent on fleecing the middle class. Crony hyenas reframe issues in terms of freedom to capitalize, while gang-banging wolves reframe issues in terms of redistribution of material equality. Neither side frames issues in terms of what's needed to avail ordinary citizens with decent freedom of expression and enterprise.
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Most people, were they not subjected to steady drumbeats of misleading noise, would readily intuit common sense, that: (1) both defense of civilization and environmental stewardship call for general incentives for moderating populations; (2) as much as practicable, ordinary citizens should be allowed to decide for themselves whether and when they wish to practice both contraception and religion; and (3) health insurance and housing should be more portable and less tied to employment or mortgages. Yet, those are not goals of those who fund and run our contending cronies and gangsters. Any astute observer will notice how common sense goals are continuously reframed and stalemated by hyenas and wolves.
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In effect, "leaders" who contend to fleece us unite to urge that nothing is feasible without first consenting to have our borders erased, our self reliance infantilized, our modesty outraged, and our respect for religious practices nullified. The between-the-lines message is: National health care is not feasible; national defense is not feasible; national economic competitiveness is not feasible. Given the way our leading contenders frame our situation, the only important things feasible are the demise of faith, the destruction of America, the outraging of modesty, and the sell out of middle classes to international corporations. This won't stop until perpetual fleecing is made irreversible --- unless the middle class as a whole soon wakes up.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's unassimilated, unacculturated, divided youth who are the perennial targets for disinformation. They go for the well packaged sound bite, have energy, and distrust elders. They're easily mined by cynics on all sided, who have institutions ready made for the mining. Popular rule plus stranglehold on mass messaging equals recipe for disaster. Until there's an attention demanding event, the middle class remains soft, meek, content, and wishful. The conundrum is how to fire up decent folk of common sense, to burn off the stranglehold cynics have on youth.

Anonymous said...

Given the politically polarizing war now raging between economic classes of plebeians versus patricians, no middle class is effectively represented. Without a third party that can base itself on principle, such as sustenance of civilization of decently empathetic human beings, the middle class goes unrepresented. During elections, the middle class of sheep, i.e., the productive class that earns its keep more by work than by dealing, merely participates in a charade of choosing the deceiver it least abhors. Choose sheep shearer number 1 or sheep shearer number 2. Establishment Rinos and Dinos want to push all sheep to the same place — a place where there’s no room for a middle class, but only for masses to be ruled by elites; a place where who shall be barbarian and who shall be citizen becomes less a matter of principle than of fortune of war (or spoil of popular vote). It may be that the best the middle class can do is to gum up the works until it can establish its own political party. Dare we dream that such a party could actually be based on principles of basic decency and common sense? if we can adduce and communicate a responsible, common sense list of what's wrong, a path towards solutions may readily unfold.