Odd fighting

These are the original definitions of the terms conservative, liberal, democrat, and republican. From what they say, the various people who align themselves with those terms either do not know what they mean, or have re-defined them to themselves. I've seen a lot of conservatives calling liberals Nazi’s lately. What I find interesting is that it seems as though those conservatives have either forgotten or willfully ignore that the Nazi, or National Socialist, party was believed to be a Right Wing party that believed that the Aryan's were the master race. In essence they were a group of bigots who hated Jews.

I've seen people say that liberals hate Jews and are racist. I have also seen the same about conservatives. Those who follow liberalism in its original sense could not be considered bigots because they fight for equal rights for everyone. When Hitler rose to power, he did so by using the Nazi party as though it were a pawn in a chess game. He claimed that the Nazi's under his rule were neither right nor left, but syncretic. He blamed the left wing for their "craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy." He said of the right wing, " It was through their miserable cowardice that those ruffians of Jews who came into power in 1918 were able to rob the nation of its arms."

It honestly isn't fair to compare either side of today's American liberals or conservatives of being anything close to Nazi's because both sides are slowly, very, very slowly, beginning to see that the government is intentionally giving the two groups reason to fight so that our rights can be restricted or taken away, big businesses can find ways out of paying their workers a fair wage, and ruining what was once one of the greatest countries in the world.

The people directly responsible for the state our fair country is in are those in power. If the electoral collage were not to exist, then the people would actually be in control of who is elected president. However, we no longer have that control sadly. A few states have varying control, but it's majority rules instead of your vote actually counting for who you voted for.

The reality of our countries situation is that because we are fighting among our selves over who has the best ideals, conservatives or liberals, our once beautiful country is heading towards civil war. Conservatives on one side, liberals on the other and those in between forced to choose sides or perish. But, I believe that we can stop our infighting. I believe that we can come together and challenge the corrupt politicians with their bank and big business backers.

Why fight a war against your fellow Americans when another country is already threatening us and our allies. Why fight a war on two fronts? I will readily admit that I am against war and violence in general (in my opinion they should be left to entertainment media). However if myself, my friends or my loved ones are threatened, regardless of their political views, I will be one of the first to step up and defend them with all that I have. I view the threat from North Korea to be more important than fighting over whose idea of a perfect nation is correct. In truth this nation would be perfect if everyone accepted that everyone has flaws.

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Problems Arise With Simple Soloutions

I think that the very wealthy and owners of corporations forget that by not spending their money, and not wanting to pay more than minimum wage to those who have been with their companies for longer, that the economy doesn't get the proper boosting it needs. If poor and middle class people can't afford to do more than pay bills and buy food, then products are sitting on shelves collecting dust. Sure a few middle class people can buy things, but what about the people who have degrees in useful professions like engineering or teaching who cannot find work in the fields they are trained in? They're forced into jobs the only pay minimum wage in order to try and support themselves. Most minimum wage earners have to get a second or third job just to break even at the end of the month in most cases. Even then more people working two or three jobs, hardly getting a day off are forced to apply for government assistance.

Now think about those who are unable to work due to a disability or some other reason. What are they to do? Not every mental or physical problem qualifies for disability. They could apply for TANF and SNAP benefits, but then they are called lazy or are blamed for the state of the economy. Imagine not being able to stand because doctors have said that the problem with your legs is benign for now, but don't do certain things, like kneel or crouch. That cuts out quite a few jobs. Imagine being told that your insurance won't cover a surgery, which costs thousands of dollars, that could end the pain in your wrists and allow you to be able to type and work with computers better. There goes another list of jobs you can no longer do.
There are other ways to make money using the internet, loads of ways. However people usually get side tracked when they get online, not a sign of laziness but a sign that there are too many things to do that attract our attentions away from what is important.

Many people criticize others before they get to know that persons situation. Not everyone can work, not everyone is eligible for government assistance. The problem our culture is that we refuse to work together. Governments want more power than that other government, wealthy people want more money, and the rest of us just want to have a life with privacy that isn't taken away by the government and corporations owned by greedy people. If the people of the world set aside our differences and banded together against the governments of the world, we could eliminate debt, eliminate hunger, eliminate greed, eliminate hate, eliminate anything that stood in our path. Yet we feel that we need leaders. The truth is we honestly don't. If every person took responsibility for themselves and took care of the important things like family, friends and loved ones; there would be no war. There would be no hate or racism, no sexism, no greed. There would be people who cared for themselves, and those they shared the world with. People would be intelligent, have common sense, be friendly toward each other.

I say, take all of the land owned by companies and convert them into fields of naturally grown fruits and vegetables. Instead of corralling cows and other animals that we use for consumption, let them roam on large plots of tended land. Give each person or family a farm that stretches up to 10 acres and have each grown different crops and raise different animals. This would allow us to have something to bargain with each other that is not a hollow promise of payment. Markets could be filled with people trading and bargaining for goods instead of fighting over money printed on the empty coffers our country has now. This would also mean an end to crime believe it or not. If a man or woman were able to tend to their own needs in this way, what reason would they have for committing crime? There would be no money to steal, lavish objects; such as televisions, radios, and other things would be traded for(producing these objects would be easier too as hemp would be grown and hemp can be used to make a biodegradable plastic that lasts longer than plastic made through oil.)

Electricity can be taken care of with solar power, wind power from personal windmills, or water power from natural water sources. The internet should be accessible anywhere free of charge, using solar power means not having to worry about funding. Environment friendly towers could be installed and used to broad cast wireless signals, same with cell phones. Water naturally occurs all around us, there is also old tech like aqueducts that can be heavily improved on to being water from the ocean to our homes and farms.

This is all just wishful thinking and probably needs more fine tuning by some one who is more qualified. I am simply a writer who wishes to see a world where there is no poor or rich. No enemies or countries who fight with each other over things like oil. We are capable of so much, yet we focus on what makes us different from each other, takes sides, then fight over them.

Blessed be my friends,
Shadow