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Shifting the Focus
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Shifting the Focus |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
A fear-based society needs scapegoats that is a historical truism – but who are the ones creating the fear? Then managing that collective fear to their own advantage? There is a tendency in these black times for people to find fault, a desire to blame: someone has to be responsible for everything – from creating the national debt to making us feel insecure and unsafe! Why not blame the people on welfare? The handicapped? The sick? Why are they getting “free” money from our tax dollars? Must be their fault the nation’s in a mess and we can’t get the debt paid. (Has to be their fault - no one else to blame at the moment.) And who has the courage to finger those with their fat fingers in every pie? The blatantly crooked politicians we are enjoined to vote for? Who even remembers, come election day the promises that are still echoing in the empty voters’ brain, rattling a bunch of scattered cells around? Ah but of course, it’s the politicians who create this phobia of welfare abusers; of fakers in wheelchairs – who point the accusing finger – blaming the victims of society and nature for our economic woes. Shift the focus: few will notice the Fat Cats grabbing the choicest part of collective earnings, pocketing it while planning their retirement on Grand Cayman. |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
hear!hear! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"Who even remembers, come election day the promises that are still echoing in the empty voters’ brain, rattling a bunch of scattered cells around?" me |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
I would like to thank both of you for your comments. |
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