Patrionomics

This one may require not a small amount of patience on behalf of the reader as I am about to make some observations and some suggestions that will most likely be considered not only un-American, but by some could even be called treasonous.  So I ask that you take a deep breath, read slowly, and keep an open mind while remembering that these are only ideas and cannot hurt you.

What amazes me the most about the good citizens of this great and fair nation is how few of them question the conventions that they have been taught (or had programmed into them) since they were very young.  As I recently said to a very good friend of mine, just because you have been told all your life that something is true, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is true.  I guess that I should understand this phenomenon as I was the same way in my younger years.  Early in my fragile education somewhere around first or second grade I can remember my teacher saying something along the lines of how this is the greatest country in the world and that no one anywhere does anything better than we do.  While this happens to be true in most cases the implications of her statements were that they are absolute truths and to question them is not only not permitted, but that doing so is somehow un-American.

The first of these dogmas is that God is the sole property of the United States.  That God created and protects the United States (and sometimes Israel) and no other nation may claim him or invoke his name.  For them to do so, especially against the U.S. would be sinful and possibly prove that the God they called on is most likely satanic.

The subject on which I would like to focus  (too late) for this article is our system of economics.  From the very beginning the wealthy elite who hold power in this country have created a new holy trinity inexorably linking capitalism with the principles of democracy and freedom and that questioning the validity of this linkage is unpatriotic or even treasonous.   All our lives we have been taught capitalism is the only good system and it is in some way righteous or that God himself is a capitalist.  That any other system is wrong and incompatible with the American way of life.  What the powers that be  fail to mention is that it is a good system for them.  Although history has shown that a capitalist system with the proper restraint and protections may be a great path to start and build a new nation,  its utter dependence upon constant growth, expansion, and unbridled consumption are clear indicators that such a system is unsustainable over the long term.

Saying some of these things to the average person usually sends them into a blind panic, they don’t know whether to argue, fight, or just run. Most of them argue then run.  Running seems to be the end result as if they must get as far away as possible from the idea of questioning such an established tenant.  Like they have never even thought once in their long lives “I wonder if what I’ve been told is true?” or “Things don’t seem to be working out all that well, I wonder why?”  Maybe the first amendment should have included freedom of thought as well as speech.  Questioning is not treachery.  Please for the love of God think for yourselves, it is not a crime despite what you’ve been told.  Trust me. 

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Campaign finance reform went the other way and now hundreds of millions of dollars are anonymously pouring into both parties coffers with absolutely no accountability.  I have no doubt that our election are being influenced by China and Saudi Arabia at the very least not to mention probably Russia, North Korea, and Iran as well.  Good luck to you United Statesians who contributed twenty dollars to your candidate, I’m sure your money bought you just as much concern.