Reply #29: This thread is a result of too many people thinking sober thoughts! [View All]

[loudsue]

Not nearly enough Kool-Aid to go around here! It is in such sharp contrast to the rhetoric we hear 24/7 from the borderline (clinical term) news media. Sobriety is an idea whose time has ARRIVED!

:hug: Plaid Adder, you have put this beautifully, in your usual hit-the-nail-on-the-head, mind-blowing style. I repeat what one poster said above: We haven't seen NEARLY enough of you around here lately! And I salute the other thoughtful, sober responses I've read so far. Great thread. Recommended!

This country has dug ourselves into a mess so deep, I really do wonder how we're going to turn the ship around before we've become a 3rd world country. If you look at the economics, the education, the manufacturing capabilities, etc., you realize that the strong underpinnings we once had as a country are no longer ours.

And I have to say it: This fault can be laid at the door of the people inside the beltway, and the REPUBLICAN PARTY, in particular. The "robber barons" have finally turned back the clock, but they over-reached a bit, and turned it back too far... back to the "old country" at the time of the dark ages. They have destroyed everything this country stood for after the industrial revolution joined forces with the labor unions and the New Deal. In the process, they have nearly destroyed the planet, by foolishly avoiding bringing the rest of the world UP with us, implementing human (and WOMEN'S) rights, consumer protections, and environmental policies that support PEOPLE, rather than corporations or corrupt governments. Rather, they imposed secondary status to other people in the world, and a mafia-style approach to foreign policy, whether overtly or covertly.

Instead of taking the high road, we have been lead by people who made slaves, puppets and hand-maidens (leading to terrorism, among other things) of other proud nations, through greed and a blatant lack of integrity; all the while, wearing the robes of the righteous. Even our "foreign aid" has been shown to be mostly a "pay-off", rather than a sober effort to build a better world for everyone.

It reminds me of those Forest Service maps on notice boards in the wilderness areas:

YOU ARE HERE (X)

And now :freak: .....what in the hell are we going to do about it? The 'morans' inside the beltway would suggest yet ANOTHER war (Iran?). That's their answer to most everything. Either that, or print some more money to steal.

I'm really at a loss. When we DID have "all the money in the world", we squandered our chance to do the right thing...to have the right vision, and follow through with it, in cooperation with SOBER leaders. Those who held the vision are and WERE at the time called "hippies", "socialists", "liberals", and we were summarily dismissed.

Now, the vision of our leaders has come down to PNAC. Still headed in the wrong direction, altogether.