So the back story on this goes back to 1992 when I was working my way through my Business degree and I became indoctrinated into the Republican trickle down theory. I was lead to believe that my fellow man was somewhat less intelligent and therefore less worthy than me.
I learned that wealth should go to the top. I was indoctrinated into the belief that "our" or rather "my" intelligence would lead me to create businesses and that the wealth I created would flow down to those below me.
At the time, I embraced this philosophy! Yes... give me all the money and I will disperse it to my plebes...
I believed that everybody below me were static and unwilling to make upward movement and should therefore exist in their status quo.
The one problem I soon discovered with my whole philosophy was that: I did not even belong in that upper echelon. Yeah.... I was not even a member of that elite hierarchy.
Yes, I built my business. I did my part. However, I was never ruthless enough or inventive enough, or motivated enough to reach that upper octane level.
However, from what I was lead to believe, it didn't matter.... I owned my own business.... I will soon benefit from this whole "republican" belief structure....
O.K. well i waited and waited and waited.... and well..... I waited!
Ignorance is NOT sweet bliss.
Ignorance is ignorance.
In fact, ignorance is destructive and painful.
Soon I began to realize that ; In reality.... the majority of Republicans are not small business owners like me. No, the majority of Republicans are not even the "smart" wealthy large business owners and people that own the wealth that will eventually "trickle" down to the average person.
NO, the average "Republican" is some small town guy who earns very little and is not very educated. He is somebody that is easily swayed and mislead either by his local politician or his church leaders.
In fact, this individual, is often times so ignorant that he doesn't even realize that what he values and strives for so much is just a regurgitation of what his local politician or religious leader has told him to believe.
He has little capacity to look at the issues in a true and independent means and form his own opinion.
He has been told that his government is too big. However, he is the exact type of person that will most benefit from a progressive government. He will seek and benefit most from unemployment, social security, disability, and welfare.
He will be the first person to say that the United States needs to have a smaller government. Yet, he will also be the first person to scream from the top of his lungs that Iran and North Korea must be stopped at all costs.
He will also scream for a tighter border as he rails for smaller government.
He will spout that we must have a reduction in taxes yet he will be the individual least affected by lower taxes.
His belief in the trickle down theory is so naive as to believe that the guys on top are actually even thinking about how to benefit him!
He will be the person that least recognizes that the only thing trickling down is their champagne piss!
Ignorance will further blind them to the fact that their pensions are diminishing, their upward mobilitiy is virtually gone, their wages are being lowered.... and if they bitch too much... their jobs may disappear too!
Yet... somehow.... through their ignorant blindness,,, they still hang on to this pitiful notion that these "Republicans" somehow represent them. Even as they come straight out on television and with their own words say... I LOVE THE TOP 1%. I WILL PROTECT THEM! Yes, even when they adamantly admit that they are representing the people on the very top.... for some fucked up reason... the average joe person still straggles along with these guys. Are they that fucking stupid? Have they watched that much Fox news that their brains are just completely fried?
Perhaps they believe that these "geniuses" will piss down their Trickle down theory and the rain that comes down will be holy water...
They bitch and moan at Government workers or unions because all of a sudden they are either making more than them or that they have better benefits or retirement than them.
I think, instead of being upset with what they have, they should focus their energies on why they don't have that!
You should truly be upset with what you have been losing. It is not that these people have surpassed you... it is that you have fallen behind them.... not due to you... but by your trickle down theory that you embrace!
Yes my friend... it is cheaper to move your pension and your high wages over seas! They don't give a shit about you! Profit is good! Just listen to your political leaders right now! They are so bold as to scream it out loud because they think you are so ignorant that you will never really get it! Hey capitalism is good... but people that buy out companies and fuck over all the people to make a boatload of profit really don't give a shit about you...
No! They really are just assholes no matter how you want to splice it! And, no matter how much the "right" wants to feed you a big pile of manure.... remember you are the guys getting fucked over!
These are the ideas which you should be upset about. You should not be upset with the left, right , center.... NO, you should be upset with the system that is in place.
The corporations, the congress... the presidency.... the whole upper structure could be your adversary; not your enemy... we are all Americans after all. Use the system to your advantage!
The upper stratosphere is where we should launch our philosophical balloons to explode with our griefs and our complaints about injustices.
Those that are soaring into these lofty plains and bubbles of existence should realize that their over inflated existence is tied to "all" our bubbles being inflated and elevated into the stratosphere.
Without us... all the helium will be deflated and we will all be searching on the same plane of existence. If this comes to pass.... trust me; the middle and high class existences will be the first to become extinct! Survival of the fittest.
So where are we now? Well, the Republicans are on a very precarious precipice! Just like the white man is fading into the sunset..... well:
The Republican Party will either morph into something that actually works for the average person or it will go the way of the Do Do Bird.
For the time being, it is representing ideas and philosophies that are dated and antiquated.
So... my philosophy to the masses is the following: Look to a party that represents your true beliefs! Look to a political party that correlates to your sense of right and wrong.
As for me personally my friend, although I was once reticent to admit it, I now not only lean but fully embrace the views of the Democrats!!!!!
