Commentary: It's a Presidential Election Year in the US, and You Are WRONG!

One of the reasons I found myself so open to becoming part of the Greater Steem Community in January of 2017 was that I was simply disgusted with the media and broader social media.

Perhaps I felt mildly disgusted by the political circus I had witnessed, but most of my irritations and frustrations were related to people's reactions and responses.

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It's "Fireworks" season!

You Are WRONG, and You Are BAD!

Although I have long been interested in politics, I have mostly avoided getting embroiled in it... due to the focus on "outrage" and personal mudslinging rather than addressing and finding solutions to societal issues.

It seems one of the things most "political people" (at least in recent memory) tend to focus on is what is WRONG with the opposing candidate, rather than what is RIGHT about the candidate they support.

Even when they talk about their own candidate, it is usually an argument framed in terms like "UNlike my opponent who has his head up his ass, I will..."

I tend to just leave, at that point... I don't *care" what's wrong about the other person, I only care what's right about YOU!

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Gimme some light!

"The Nature of the Beast"

I have often been served the rationalization that I am being naive and that petty fighting is simply "the nature of the (political) beast" so I need to just get over myself and accept it.

To be honest, I am beyond caring.

If a political candidate — be that local, state or Presidential — is not capable of formulating what they stand for without mention of their opponent and their opponent's perceived "flaws," then that is just inadequate.

And so, I am resigning myself to perhaps another year of shaking my head and just leaving the scene, rather than getting bogged down in the mud.

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Revolutions and "Banana Republics"

I'm not saying that we should not examine what has gone wrong under the tenure of any given politician — accountability is part of the game.

That said, the desire for change (of whatever nature) simply because we are angry about any current system reminds me of nothing so much as so-called "Banana Republics" that have revolutions at the drop of a hat: Everyone is very good at "overthrowing the government" but they give little thought to what they actually intend to do, once the old regime no longer holds the reins.

And so, some other "faction" fills the vacuum, and the process repeats. And repeats. And repeats...

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Your wrong too government is just a tool the central banking Ponzi scheme uses to steal your money it doesn't matter who gets elected because they all have to do what the bankers say or the bankers crash fiat currency and the people overthrow the government because they think the government caused the crash then they would put the Ponzi scheme back in control the only way to fix everything is get rid of the bankers

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A lot of people are inherently lazy, or have been trained to be lazy. They'd rather hand off responsibility to someone else than have to be self-reliant.

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That's not true you've been brainwashed into thinking that by the bankers nobody wants to be a slave that's why everyone is depressed also I didn't say everyone had to be self reliant I said central banking needs to disappear to fix any problems because they are the cause of all of them it's slavery it is a Ponzi scheme all the money is owned by private corporations that create all the money from nothing and loan it all out on interest but the loans are impossible to pay back because everyone is paying the interest with the principal and there is no money to pay back the principal that's why $1 is worth less than ¢1 was when it was first introduced and they lie and say that the drop in value is because the supply has increased and nobody does there own research to find out the truth

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I'd submit that the entire economy is a Ponzi to a large extent because of the over-reliance on the idea of "growth." Everyone has been sold the bag of good that unless we have MORE next week, next month, next year, we are somehow failing.

But when you look at it objectively... I need ONE toaster oven, ONE car, ONE bed, ONE loaf of bread and so on... and pitching me the idea that I need "5% more" next year is pretty much lunacy, and yet 95% of the world operates under the growth assumption.

I don't much care about bankers; we trade and barter for half the stuff we use there days...

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That's a felony in the US unless you support the central banking Ponzi scheme with income tax because all income tax goes to the bankers to pay for the governments impossible loans that's why you don't care the government say they use your money to help everyone but they only pay the bankers so they don't get overthrown by the people when fiat loses all value the only ways out that aren't felonies are you have to pay more than $100,000 to buy a no tax citizenship by investment or are exempt by taking less than $20,000 profit with less than 10,000 transactions also I don't want to have more of everything I need money to research and do things that nobody has ever done before because they assume they're impossible

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Maybe we are seeing the decline of American politics. It is chosen between the lesser of two evils and not among the candidate that best meets the expectations.

What happens in America in the same thing that happens in third world countries, and what seems to happen in Europe also in the future. Just buckle up and wait for everything to end.

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The more I think about it, the more I have to agree that you're right... the American "system" is in a spiral of decline, and the best thing we can (perhaps!) do is just sit back, pop some popcorn, and enjoy the view...

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I am sorry.... But I have always wanted to do that !popcorn thing.....

Is that a bad thing. It feels kinda foolish....lol

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Nah, it's not a bad thing... at least when you have an appropriate venue to use it!

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It saddens me that it has taken most of my life to cut through all the crap and see the core flaw of politics... Simply stated:

No mere man or group of men has any legitimate right to rule anyone.

Politics starts by assuming that falsehood, and is sustained by the sorry reality that nigh unto everyone believes and accepts it as truth.

I've come to be a well-settled voluntaryist. Anything that is peaceable and voluntary is OK for a human, cooperative society.

Every "candidate" that you've spoken of in your article, whether they acknowledge it or even understand or realize it themselves, has bought into the lie that it is OK for them to tell me what I can and cannot do. That, my friend, is intolerable. That, friend, is politics.

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@creatr

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