But am I the only one puzzled, and a bit miffed, at the Democrats who are trying to make the Dakota pipeline issue "their" issue? I mean, to see the memes the liberal democrats are putting out, we need to elect Hillary at once, so that the Natives can have 110% sovereignty and no pipeline ever!
Yet, who is in office right now? Reagan? Nixon? Bush? Righty McConservabully?
No, I believe that Barack Obama is the President, and that he is a Democrat. Nor am I believing for a second that Hillary is going to do anything about this issue when she gets in.
To my knowledge, I do not think she has even promised, too.
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| The usual level of American political discourse. And quite accurate. |
People, I hate to beat a dead horse, but this ably demonstrates - for the 7,483rd time - that our Presidents are but figureheads for powerful interests that care nothing for us.
We are given no meaningful choices for who will be President, the "choices" we are gave could not be reasonably expected to manage a used car dealership with any degree of competence or integrity, we don't even really get to vote for them at all, and to the extent we can make our voice heard, the Supreme Court can overturn the popular vote.
Then, when past all that, someone you want gets in - like, say, for example, Obama - then he can violate every promise he ever made and make his administration indistinguishable from the Cheney administration. Gitmo not closed, torture still a thing, occupying more nations than ever, etc., etc.
Justice for the Sioux - or any one else - is thus not a Democrat issue, nor, before any get too excited, a Republican one. There is, in fact, no justice or goodness to be had at the polls at all. When you imagine that there is, and then make a big fuss about who should win, and who should be voted for, and then worse, rush out to the polls to "vote", you're not solving anything.
You are, in fact, making the problem worse, as you are tending to encourage the young, the uneducated and the naive that voting somehow matters, and that solutions are to be found not by hard work, but by a ballot box.
Spoiler Alert: Problems are only solved by hard work.
And to be honest, it's work that does not always succeed in your lifetime. Thus the wise person does good for goodness's sake, or for Christ, or for any number of noble reasons that they find within their soul.
But they do it knowing that it is good in itself, and not something that they are doing for their party to win or for their views to triumph.
I, for instance, run a sober living home. And if I were doing it because I was hoping to end alcoholism and addiction, I would be a fool. And if I were doing it to ram through a New Prohibition, I would be a bullying fool.
I do it for any one individual that can be aided. And because that's how I do it, I need not worry about who is voted in or out, which law passes or does not, who is or is not on the Supreme Court, or any of the other fluff, bell and whistle distractions that is any government that ever existed.
The Sioux do need your aid. As do those recovering from alcoholism. As do many for many reasons, locally and globally. And the energy you may be currently wasting in campaigning for Tweedledum or Tweedledumber could be better spent on actually doing something.
Like donating for blankets for the Sioux. Instead of asking the government to, they not having a good reputation in the "blanket passing out" department. Or aiding those trying to recover from addiction. Instead of asking the government to take away free agency from everyone. Or any other private action that will always do more than any campaigning.
And that will always be more moral than anything done by government force.
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