Saturday, December 1, 2012

"let them eat cake"

Republicans have a "let them eat cake" attitude.  I believe they lost because of this viewpoint.  They should watch the latest Marie Antoinette movie.  Perhaps it would refresh their memories regarding their antiquated ideas about today's society.  History really does not have to repeat itself.  We are intelligent beings who should learn from history's mistakes, not repeat them.

Chris Matthews reminded me of a quote from The Great Gatsby: "And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.  He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.  He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.   Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.  It eluded us then, but that's no matter-to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning--So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

This says it all about today's Republican Party.  They are quickly becoming obsolete, but they have the gold, so they rule.  Their rules and ideologies will live on, I'm afraid, because they still maintain power. Power  over the lives of the people whether we have spoken or not.  The pie is large enough for all, but too many wealthy men don't want to share even slivers of the  pie.  They continue to divert the attention of the uninformed to nonsensical issues, hoping the masses will look at the nonsensical instead of at what all of us should be doing to correct the inequities in the system, as they exist today.

America is in dire need of tax reform and other imminent things like attention to the needs of the sacred earth we all live on.  I hope that we all are very clear on what's really important and move forward towards these solutions.

maverickchild
12-1-2012

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