Meditation for October 1st
Politics
In America, we have different parties that run for office. We have the two major parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, as well as some smaller “third” parties that also aim to win seats, such as the Socialists, the Green Party, and the Libertarians. There are also others, but they all live entirely in a fantasy world, so it’s best to ignore them.
What political party works for you the best?
Democrat
Democrats were the pro-slavery, anti-Indian party who wound up creating the Confederate States of America so that they could get the big bad Republican federal government off their backs. Now they are the huge tax-happy federal government that is only slightly more liberal than the Republicans.
Pros: health care, government assistance to people experiencing poverty, student loans, and prison reform – in theory, but not really in practice.
Cons: not that different than the republicans, taxes, loves military interventions, and only uses issues like abortion and gay rights for fundraising and never actual policy changes.
Republican
The party of Abe Lincoln has turned into old KKK members having tea and a luncheon at a golf club. They obviously talk about cutting government fat, but have perpetrated government spending more than any Democrat. They are being led by a racist, sexist, isolationist billionaire reality TV star, Fox News, and a dead actor turned politician famous in Grenada and running the country while suffering Alzheimer’s.
Pro: less taxes, protect your money (if you have enough of it – 5 million or more), state rights – in theory.
Cons: party is spinning out of control from its own deal with evangelicals and conspiracy theorists, racist, bad economic, and tax reform.
Socialist
The Communists’ slightly more moderate counterpart. They drool over European governments without considering the vast differences between us and them. They want the government to take care of everything and love a confusing and time-consuming bureaucracy.
Pro: health care, education, worker rights, elderly and handicap care, unions
Con: The French pay 66% of their income for their social welfare. You pay 33% if you are rich and 3.6% if you are poor here.
Green Party
You are socially liberal, but fiscally conservative? Well, that’s the Green Party. They will fight for a utopia that you don’t have to pay for – they cannot say who will pay for it, so donors are few. This is the left-leaning conspiracy nut; i.e., vaccination leads to autism, pharmaceutical companies are hiding the fact that blueberry hemp cures cancer, and poor tariff reform, and the Illuminati is running things, man!
Pro: consumer rights, environmental rights, no more war, weed
Cons: nut jobs and hippies
Libertarians
Liberty! The government should have no law over any man. The Constitution is a literal document, and no court case can alter that – even if it is also mentioned in the Constitution. This also assumes all people are actually born equal and have the same access to everything. This means that race, gender, sexual orientation, economics, demographics, and health don’t exist. If you have a business and you want to dump the toxic waste into my backyard, and you had an army of armed people to help you do it, libertarians don’t think they want to protect me.
Pro: You can do anything you want because of liberty! No taxes!
Con: Anarchy also includes bad people, and cops are big government.
Communists
You are probably saying to yourself, ‘This is an excellent system in theory, but it can’t work in real life,’ and you are probably pointing to failed states like the Soviet Union as proof. Well, to that I say, why did the United States of America spend trillions, and this is no exaggeration, to combat communism? I know, it’s hard to imagine that the people actually doing the labor get the benefits instead of wealth and resources being hogged by the rich. We literally pay for water, a necessity for life!
Pros: Needs are met and shared to the benefit of the people.
Cons: Getting assassinated by the CIA