Meditation for October 1st, 2016
Politics
In America we have different parties that run for offices. We have the two major parties the Democrats and the Republicans, and we also have some smaller “third” parties that try and win some seats too like the Socialists, the Green Party and the Libertarians. There are also others, but they all live completely in a fantasy world, so it’s best to ignore them.
What political party works for you the best?
Democrat
Democrats were the pro-slavery, anti-Indian party who wound up creating the Confederate States of America so that they could get the big bad Republican federal government off their backs. Now they are the huge tax happy federal government that is only a slight more liberal than the Republican.
Pros: health care, government assistance to the poor, student loan and prison reform
Cons: not that different than the republicans, taxes, loves military interventions
Republican
The party of Abe Lincoln has turned into old KKK members having tea and a luncheon at a golf club. They obviously talk about cutting government fat, but have perpetrated government spending more than any Democrat. They are being lead by a racist, sexist, isolationist billionaire reality TV star, Fox News, and a dead actor turned politician famous Grenada and running the country with Alzheimer’s.
Pro: less taxes, protect your money (if you have enough of it – 5 million or more), state rights
Cons: party is spinning out of control from its own deal with evangelicals and conspiracy theorists, racist, bad economical and tax reform
Socialist
The Communist’s slightly more conservative little brother. They drool over European governments with no thought of the huge differences between us and them. They want the government to take care of everything and loves a confusing and time consuming bureaucracy.
Pro: health care, education, worker rights, elderly and handicap care, unions
Con: The French pays 66% for their socialism. You pay 33% if you are rich and 3.6% if you are poor here.
Green Party
You socially liberal, but fiscally conservative? Well that stupid idea is the Green Party. They will fight for a utopia that you don’t have to pay for – they cannot say who will pay for it, so donors are few. This is the left leaning conspiracy nut; i.e., vaccination leads to autism, pharmaceutical companies are hiding the fact that blueberry hemp cures cancer and poor tariff reform, and Illuminati is running things, man!
Pro: consumer rights, environmental rights, no more war, weed
Cons: nut jobs and hippies
Libertarians
Liberty! The government should have no law over any man. The Constitution is a literal document, and no court case can change that – even if that is also in the Constitution. This also assumes all people are actually born equal and have the exact same access to everything. This means that race, gender, sexual orientation, economics, demographics and health doesn’t exist. If you have a business and you want to dump the toxic waste into my back yard and you had an army of armed people to help you do it, libertarians don’t think they want to protect me.
Pro: you can do anything you want because liberty! No taxes!
Con: anarchy also includes bad people and cops are big government.