The view from 'out here'

[The Straight Story]

Right now my X wife is really ill and I am trying to focus on my daughter and her needs.

Somewhere in all of this are all of the other things going on - wars, Libya, Japan, Nuclear power, Wisconsin, economy, jobs, health care, etc and so on.

Right now I am facing 6-8 weeks or more of being off work as I need to be there for my baby girl, and to be honest - with all I have been through I need a damned break.

I, we, elected folks to deal with things. We trust that those we put in power would deal with all these big issues so that we could focus on the ones facing us each day.

My problems are not yours, you face things I can't understand. I deal the best I can with mine, and you yours.

We trusted that the votes we cast, that the people we put into power (both on a local and state level, as well as national), would be enough to fix the bigger issues we all faced.

We trusted (or wanted to anyway) people in the media (the people we pay through newspaper subscriptions or choices in the channels we watch) to give us accurate information on what those we all elected (and pay) were doing and how it affects us -- so that we could make better choices when it came time to vote.

All of those we have paid have been letting us down. The politicians, the media. And they wonder why folks have come together on the net and kicked their asses. They wring their hands wondering why we are pissed off.

They spin a web about a world that most of us don't live in. They have their make up artists powdering their faces before they go on air, they fret over which five star restaurant they will go to after their broadcast or speech. Their biggest problem day to day is which suit or dress to wear while the rest of us are trying to figure out whether to pay the rent this month, or meds, or car insurance, etc.

We are rebelling. Slowly the old media is dying. We are working, day after day, to remove the problem of media and politicians being in bed with one another.

We are more aware, more independent. We are seeing the big picture one person at a time. I am seeing your problems, you mine. We - as a collective - are seeing that in a nation of 300 million having only a few people at the top, both in politics and media, does not really represent us.

[Newest Reality]

1. That was well said.

We are seeing that a select group is being served and represented faithfully now, to our exclusion and utter dismay.

It seems that the assumed "social contract" along with the legal system we have agreed upon still applies to us down to the finest detail, while the upper echelons of persons, (both natural and artificial) operate by a very different, and increasingly obvious, set of rules, if you would call them that.

Along with that gross imbalance of injustice, we also see a corresponding shift of our wealth and power into the hands of those who are enabled to act with a growing sense of bravado and impunity.

That is no longer a system of representation and legal or financial justice. That is something similar to being branded as nothing more than somebody's resource to be controlled and even owned like herds of human livestock.

How is that acceptable? You don't have democracy when poll after poll shows the majority of our will while next to nothing is accomplished to fulfill it. When you get to that point, the system has bypassed the people and functions for its own sake. In that case, it is, to us totally dysfunctional. How long can we abide with that?

[butterfly77]

2. Especially,when the people in ..

your so called political party are scared and have been working against the President since day one because they can't get over his blackness. They go behind close doors and work against the President and tie his hands even more as though they weren't already tied before he took office..

[roguevalley]

3. agreed. I also hope in all this that you get some rest. :)