The Depoliticization of our current society

AT LEAST INTERNET IS SPREADING DA NEWS...

Krugman: "there is now no way to view the people who ruled us these past 8 years as anything but monsters."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/183/

CHILD CHEWING MONSTERS i MAY ADD ;)

Meet the Press and the Media's Distortions of the Bush Prosecutions Debate
By Salon
Glenn Greenwald: The assertion that "most Americans" don't want investigations -- whether made by media stars to argue against investigations or Obama supporters to justify the immunity the President wants to extend to everyone involved -- is factually false.
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2009/04/21/meet-the-press-and-the-medias-d...

I can't for the life of me think of anything I could do in this country that would actually make a difference in the system, and yet if I say I want to move away to a neutral country with wiser government then I'm called an escapist, just running away. What the hell are we supposed to do when we're surrounded by mtv american idol mcdonalds zombies who won't lift a finger from their remote control NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS?!?!?!

Over the decades, the right wing has done an effective job of making the working class believe it is entirely to blame for its own circumstances. Never mind jobs shipped out of the country. Never mind no health insurance for 40 million Americans. Never mind Wall Street robbing the country blind. Never you mind working class. If you don't have a job, or you're poor, it's still, all your fault.

Another poor dreamer who really believes Obama will change anything...

I'm going to be the unapologetic realist. While I agree that the populous of the United States of America is sickeningly apathetic and politically ignorant. I'd argue that is the very problem, not the politicians. A republic is only as good as it's people.

I'll address your questions and some of your statements in which I will disagree with some of them.

"The bailouts go to the businesses (not to the people who are living in tent cities in the USA)"

I'm no fan of bailing out business' but it's a necessity, millions of people would have lost their jobs, their insurance policies, etc if we hadn't bailed out AIG. Furthermore, giving "the people" free money will only de-value the American dollar more. I'm no expert in economics but I understand that much.

"this war in Iraq is still going on (I can;t help but ask WHY?!),"

It's practically impossible to withdraw all of our troops within a few weeks, or even a few months, it's a massive effort, and it would be unfair to the Iraqi government. According to the binding status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government we will have withdrawn all of our troops by 2012. Troop withdraws have already begun or will begin in May, I'm not quite sure which.

"Obama says that the time for change is now, why isn't anyone doing anything?!"

Change is occurring slowly but surely. Progress doesn't happen overnight. Historically it's a long, painful process. Examples, African American rights in the United States, womens' rights, homosexuals rights etc. It called gradualism.

Examples of change;

I. Climate Change: The EPA has declared greenhouse gases as a health hazard and if Congress dosen't act will implement it's own cap and trade system, the former admin didn't even recognize climate change as an issue.

II. Health Care: According to the New York Times the Democratic party has agreed to push for a two-tiered health care system much like the United Kingdom's system. Proposed bills will be introduced and voted on by the end of July.

III. Regulations: Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, has proposed the strictest guidelines and regulations in decades, it's not enough in my opinion but it is progress nonetheless.

IV. Transportation: As you already know a massive public works project has been proposed and will be implemented. We'll finally have some semblance of a mass public transit system.

"Why do we no longer care about the inequality that we live in?"

I think people care, at least some do, but inequality is a fact of life (that doesn't mean I don't support a lessening in the quality of life gap between the well off and the poor).

I think the real problem comes down to the binary-mentalities(right-wrong, with me or against me), the sickening apathy(people like to talk a good game but acting on it would require actual willpower) and the general ignorance of the American populous when in regards to the complexity of politics. Education, imo, is the solution, but parents run around complaining about everything from evolution to the lack of school prayer which stifles the system.

Overall, I wished there was a larger outcry for more service to ones community and more involvement in politics. So we'll all do our part to make the country and the world a better place. That's about all we can do.

Hope I didn't offend anybody, but if I did it was not intentional. BTW I'm featuring this in the US politics section.

http://current.com/topics/32978403_us-politics/

Wow, i didn't realize how huge my post was.

Never fully trust your government.... always question.. it's the only Patriotic thing to do.

Choosing the IMF for the job is soooo wrong... or right depending of where you're coming from ;)

Greg Palast's debriefing of World Bank's former Chief Economist and a Nobel prize winner in economics Joseph Stiglitz should be an eye opener as well as an anthology piece for anybody even slightly interested in world economy......

The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold
http://www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/

...& as it applies to the US of A...

THIRD WORLD AMERICA !
http://current.com/items/89833556_third-world-america.htm

We live in a world where our choices are meaningless because they are all based on the false propaganda of the "elite" few and we accept it because we're not permitted even to glimpse any other possibility. Nor are most of us inclined to abandon the comfortable "matrix" of the illusion.

Many people lost trust and faith in governments. Its hard to tell people that are hungry and homeless to trust their government.

"The plutocrats believe there are some things worse than war: the confiscation of special privileges; the abolition of unearned income; the overthrow of the economic parasitism; the establishment of industrial democracy. The plutocrats would welcome a war that promised salvation from any such calamities; they would also welcome a war that promised greater foreign markets, the destruction of foreign competition, more security for property rights and a longer lease on life for plutocratic despotism." - Scott Nearing — 1917

Our whole culture is organized around wealthy people who keep poor people poor, uneducated, and powerless.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -George Orwell

Does democracy even exists anywhere. Are we totally ignorant of the reality of Machiavellian control by the elite or are we sycophants hoping to cash in by pretending to hold out hope for the masses to prevent an uprising ?

OR, maybe we are attempting to straddle the fence, in which case we will be shot from both sides come the revolution ;)

"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same." - George Orwell, 1984

"For in every city these two opposite parties [people vs aristocracy] are to be found, arising from the desire of the populace to avoid oppression of the great, and the desire of the great to command and oppress the people....For when the nobility see that they are unable to resist the people, they unite in exalting one of their number and creating him prince, so as to be able to carry out their own designs under the shadow of his authority." (Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. IX)

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind" - George Orwell

“Conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.” – Gore Vidal

Two thumbs up pinkerbelle! Your analysis is right on target. Class is the battle ground. A redistribution of the wealth is required.

In that light.one can see the recent Tea Parties as manufactured descent in order to mystify and obfuscate the real issue: the inequity of class and corporate welfare.

Pinkerbelle; I too have wondered why and I think that it is because government has become so big that the people know that it would prove fatal and futile. It would be like the palestinians fighting with sticks and stones against israel who is loaded with the latest in high tech killing machines. Perhaps one day the states will mobilize to take back the country from the high tech bankers and think tanks who are leading us into the far corners of the earth like Eurasia. There are some good articles on REAL NEWS that can help explain where we are headed for.