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Originally Posted by pan6467
This is the vast reason nothing gets done and we continue to spiral downward.
PowerClown is entitled to his opinion on Reagan, as is everyone else.
But we get all caught up in pointing fingers and saying Bush, Reagan, Carter, Kennedy, Clinton.... and then we argue to defend our opinion of the past.
Meanwhile, we continue this spiral downward and no one comes up with any solutions. Just finger pointing and blaming everyone else that doesn't agree with us.
Stop the fucking insanity and let's work for solutions. Let's work together and find out how to stop the spiral, instead of arguing where it started and who did what when.
The finger pointing and blame game doesn't change anything, won't change the past, won't change someone's opinion, won't stop the downward spiral.
Hey Zeus Frickin Crisps........ let's start looking for answers and working together to accomplish a better future and fuck the past, we ain't never going to change it. We can learn from the past but only if we stop the finger pointing and negativity and start looking at what did work.
It's like addiction recovery, if you focus on the reason why you drank/drugged/whatever and not on how you can make a better future, you will forever be locked into relapsing. Find what works in your recovery focus on it, build off of it and realize that you can have a better life because you don't live in the past facing nothing but negativity and guilt.
I believe we are addicted to the negativity and downward spiral because a lot of people just don't want to change, they would rather finger point and blame everyone that doesn't agree with them, than to see they may have to sacrifice, compromise and put forth effort..... it's easier to just keep blaming and finger pointing and wallowing in pity as we decline further and further into the addiction than to face the truth and work our way out.
Must this country truly hit rock bottom before we realize this? In the stages of addiction, we, as a country, aren't even in the precontemplative stage in our addiction to the negativity, we're wallowing in the active/denial/blame stage.
I guess the vast majority would rather stay there than recognize the problem and move forward.
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I don't disagree with a word you said.
I will however, say it's futile at best. Look at the millions of people of voting age in this country and look what we're given to choose from: 3 people. THREE! And not one is addressing the negatives in a way that would have us nod and give an emphatic "Yes!"
I touched on it before, but...we as a nation have the habit of blaming one person for the woes and it doesn't work that way. There's an entire machine at work and too many of us are tiny cogs. We don't vote for who equals our visions, we vote for the least evil of the choices given. That just sucks. Where is anyone who doesn't have some huge money bag going to get their voice heard so that those of us who want the choice can take it?
You or I or even Host can't run for president because we're "average Americans". Hell, who here could even run for mayor?
We can join groups, start groups, oppose groups, but for whatever reasons, we either don't or we do and give up.
*sigh* We do what we can with the tools we are given......