I regret that I was not born in my ancestors' land of the UK. It is hardly not like I do not like Being Texan, it's in the blood. I have come to the belief after my congressman wrote me back after I asked him about the health care thing, that our government is a sad excuse for a legislative body. It only reinforced my opinion about abolishing the US House of Representatives. It is a body of inaction and iniquity.
General Washington in his Farewell Address wrote:
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
If he feared this more than 200 years ago, why did we forget this?
I believe that we do better with someone in charge. Does it really matter how he or she got there? The only thing that matters is how they serve the people. The West existed for over a thousand years under monarchies. Unrestrained capitalism and avarice have made our attempt at a pure democracy a bad joke.
I won't bash republicans. I don't hate anyone. However, I strongly dislike conservatism. I dislike the weakened will of liberalism. I am politically centrist. I believe in compromise and listening to all.
Why do people run for congress? That money could be better spent helping hungry kids and adults, improving education, securing our threadbare infrastructure before it collapses, etc...
Why do they want to be in the public eye like that? Some portion of the public will love them, another portion dispises them. Why can't someone truly be interested in helping the whole?
No, I do not vote, I do not believe that it changes a darn thing. Maybe that is a bad thing. I don't really leave the house so I don't really matter in the great scheme of things.
I would go back in time, to find my ancestor that came to America 150 years ago, to convince them that it is really no better than anywhere else. Oh, maybe I wouldn't have been born if that was the case, pity that. That wouldn't bother me in the least.
I think royalty should be earned. Every child is born the same. It is what he or she is taught that makes them who they are.
Inequality of wealth illustrates this point. How many rich kids get into trouble and how many poor kids excel to rise above their beginnings? If I was rich, I'd share it. I don't like the idea of money, it has been a stain on civilization for thousands of years.
A rich guy only has it easier because of his money. He is separated by a gulf between him and the other 95% of America that is hurting right now. That gulf needs to be eliminated. Tax him until he bleeds to secure our deficit.
Consumerism, materialsim, all of that falls under two deadly sins, Avarice and Gluttony. Greed is hardwired into the human brain. Perhaps back when we had fur and lived in the trees, it was a survival strategy. We have not changed in that way.
I totally believe that some people are blessed with nobility, then some inherit it. It is not for anyone to say that it is wrong.
I just wish one person would take the responsibility to enact the change we need. THAT is nobility.
In my stories' timeline, the USA folded, fell apart in the year 2449. I do not know if we will even last that long.
