Okay so I am not a leftist heavy metal rap band, but every
now and then your brain explodes.
It seems the people most needing to do something for
themselves is the people doing the least and still accepting the Democrat and
Republican party machinery dictating to them what is best for them. And this is
done with a helpful dose of media befuddlement. Yep the media is just now
starting to understand why Mr. Donald Trump is so popular and Bernie Sanders is
capturing second fiddle honors
It isn’t his platform, it isn’t his experience, it isn’t the
money, it isn’t anything they want us to believe, because if it was something
they would be able to figure him out. Nope it is because he is throwing up one
large middle finger at the establishment of DC, the two parties, the media, and
a host of other institutions the country is tired of lying to them. I really do
not think he is what his fans think of him, however, he has convinced many he
is the anti-establishment candidate. Mr. Sanders is making the same noise and
has a platform which will continue to appeal to a wide host of liberal
idealists.
And after all this time you are starting to see articles in
the press that admit to this idea. Vox.com had an article that the Republican
party is broken. The Tea Party knew this years ago they just couldn’t get the
party to recognize it. The right and the far right are more engaged so they are
responding to what Mr. Trump is offering. They do not care that he does not
have a viable platform. The more the establishment winces at Mr. Trump the more
they adore him.
I am not a fan of either and am jealous of both. I still
hold out hope the middle class and the middle of the country will recognize
what the machines of both parties have done and remove the shackles of the two
party dominance. The middle class is its own worst enemy. They love life. They love
softball games on Sunday, or movies on Saturday, their kids performing in the
high school play, fighting for a playoff spot on their basketball team,
watching their child in dance competitions, eating dinner with family and
friends. The young like hanging out at bars, playing video games, working out,
eating at chic restaurants, and doing many other things they cannot afford because
they want a good life.
All see living paycheck to paycheck as dangerous and yet
watching more each year being deducted from their paycheck for health insurance
and their copays going up also. Rent goes up every time they renew their lease.
After 7 years of people trying to convince us to buy a house again, many are
skeptical or are hoping things are getting better like they are being told. They
scream: Please do not confuse me with multi trillion dollar government debt, or
ISIS, or trade balance, or what kind of job I may never have or a host of other
problems that if not solved will be the end of the idea of middle class living
in a democracy. No please tell me things will be good so I do not have to worry
about my future.
Things aren’t going to be good with politicians telling you
they are going to be good, and yet the middle class will not open their ears
and minds to reality. The politicians, the press, wall street etc are lying to you. And as long as you buy
the lies; things will not get truly better. The machine thought they won years
ago and put their message on a recording that the middle class will not tune
out. And as long as that message is playing the middle class will wither away.
Time to wake up and realize the reason Mr. Trump and Mr.
Sanders are popular because they found an audience that is tuning out the
machine. Unfortunately, neither is going to benefit the middle class. Mr.
Sanders cannot expect the federal government to continue to solve all our
problems, it is too daunting of a task, yet he is convincing his followers it
can. Mr. Trump is awakening an ugly giant of right wing fanaticism that could
roll over Mr. Trump unless he continues to take on even more extremist verbiage
and then at some point he may actually have to act. If he does or doesn’t the
resulting fall out will be ugly.
And the middle class will look to the machine and say what
happened. And will be lied to again. Unfortunately, it may be too late for our
country.
We do not need a revolution, we do not need a new government,
we do not need extremism; we just need to pay attention to the quiet voices in
our heads that say when things are not what they seem; we need to make them
right. We can keep softball games, our
children’s activities, our lunches, our families, our friends, we just need to
spend some time with each other to right this ship before it breaks into three
pieces with the middle sinking to the bottom of the ocean and the two sides
branching off into hysterical pseudo populism.
The machine has failed; only you and I can rebuild our
dreams
I still plan on finishing up the Social Security thoughts
because if we ever get it together we got some work to do.
Cheers
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