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hard@work
09-04-2007, 01:26 AM
The Ghosts Inside the Machine

by Anthony Wade

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__070903_the_ghosts_inside_th.htm

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The machine requires two sides and two sides only. It demands that you pick a side and get off the imaginary fence they swear to you is there. The machine says that to be a good American you must believe in one set of values and you cannot deviate from them without somehow violating all of them. It says that you are red or blue; conservative or liberal, republican or democrat. It forces you to choose only one side though. It derides the other side; it mocks it. It lays all the blame for the ills of society at the feet of the “other side.” It gives you someone to blame for your lot in life. It tells the average “republican” that it’s those damn liberals and their anti-family ways that are destroying the American culture. It tells the average democrat that it is those damn republicans and their intolerant views of differences that is causing the erosion of all that was once good in America. In order for you to believe that tolerance is a good thing, you must embrace the entire package of a layered federal government that intercedes in all areas of your life. In order to believe that life begins at conception you have to embrace the party of war and poverty. They have sold you a lie and we buy it every day. Somehow in this country we have been convinced that while we can have 31 flavors of ice cream we can only get two coherent lines of political thought. The result is exactly what the machine wants. We snipe at each other at the lower levels of society while the machine keeps getting fed above us.


:) good read, and I agree whole heartedly.