Viewpoint

What You See is Not, What you See.

The View from both of the Floor

#Interfluence
I'm not too sure, but while the People of the World find themselves in the quagmire that is United States Politics; witness the similar, yet polar opposing views of the two individuals seeking the Office of President; they could obtain the #Power to #Enact change to better the lives of the People of the USA. I ask one question;
"What truly has changed?"
1) The USA still has one of the highest rates of Unemployment.
2) The USA still has an increasing percentage of Homelessness.
3) The Salaries & Wages earned have not kept pace with those of Executives, CEO and Big Business owners, who owe those profits to the hard work of the employees they refuse to pay.
4) Greed and Corruption are out of control; reaching to the top echelons of both Government and Incorporated Business.
5) The Protection of Citizens and the Enforcement of Law has been sent back to the Lawless Era, when the Fastest Gun set the Rules.
6) Civil & Human Rights detailed in the Hallowed Documents of the founding of their Nation can be observed to have been rescinded; taken back by an established & stagnant Organization; the Government has proven to be equally: Bigoted, Ignorant, Biased and in most cases outright Prejudice, offering Presidential Power as they choose or denying them when they are obligatory.
7) The Wealthiest secret their ill-gotten Fortunes, Evade Taxation, while claiming they don't have enough.
8) A Strong USA is based on a Healthy USA, but Healthcare is available only to those with Wealth to afford it, while the poorest go without; working in Companies making Billions.
9) The Media dictates the Values, Ideals and the Ideologies of the masses; spin, sensationalize and twist the Truth at every turn to ensure they maintain an Ethnic, Religious and the Racial tensions that divide the Nation, when #Unity is the Ideology of the "United" States.
10) Polarized as they are in this climate of Political Division; the Republicans and the Democrats both fail in the Obligations, Service and the Governing of a once great Nation.
A New Rome prepares to fall, as the divides between Wealth & Poverty; Justice & Injustice, Law & Order, Public & Private become opposing side of a single Coin; like the Number 6 or is it 9; observed from diverse points of view, when the truth is obvious...0 has changed in over 200 years of growth.
Is that what the Country calls Change?
The Poor clutch at Straws, while bales rot in Wealthy Fields.
Many things can be #True, but there can only be One #Truth...and understanding the difference is a Sign of Growth.
From observation: The Nation has not outgrown it's Childish Infancy.
So as the Nation elects their side of a single ideal; the Truth goes unnoticed by everyone mired in this Political Race; when it should be about the increased and renewed Division of a People the deserve to be #UNITED!

HAVE I GOT YOUR ATTENTION!?

© copyright R Anthony H. Rock

RACISM can be EXTINGUISHED

If History has taught Humankind 1 thing; it is that Bigotry, Prejudice, Racism, Inequality and Injustice of any kind are forms of Ignorance & Fear and their Supporters are as blind as Moles. Crawl back into the your holes and stay buried.

"We shall overcome, someday," Martin once said; but not this day, it seems.

Thousands of years of Slavery; where the focus has not been on the "Crime of Slavery," but on the specific Racial Degradation and Tension, which cannot be addressed by a simple saying, "Suck it up or Forget it;" or as something the Media started. The beginning is more deeply ingrained in the psyche of North America; the KKK vs Brothers of Elijah; a prime example and many Groups that spread Hate, Fear and Ignorance; Neo-Nazism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Muslimist, Anti-Church, Homophobia/Hetrophobia twist, Sexists and many other countless small organizations around the World that promote Fear, Hate, Biases and Injustice based on a number of criterion.

The World is Minority Rule, because they have the Finances to keep the rest of the World at War; fighting because of Fear, fighting; because of Hatred; fighting Ignorance and Oppression. Yet; their hands seems clean, even as stained with blood as they are, because others do their handiwork and are handsomely paid for such endeavours.

Unfortunately; these flames are fanned to a blaze best and fastest, because of hundreds of years of unabashed injustice and tension, begun with enslavement and is a opportunity to further separate the Black and White peoples of America, because in that country, they believe it's a National Security Matter.
A friend posted to me; "I should consider how far things have come," but in doing this his profile was Al Jolson in Black Face...an extreme example of how America once thought of Black People. When Actors in Black Face walked through the front Door, while Billy Holiday, Sammy Davis Jr. and a host of talented Black performers were told to use the Servants entrance at the rear.
Racism is Alive, Well and Spreading across the Globe; a conflagration of Epic proportions; a Fire that will not die, because there is more Fuel than Extinguisher.
You want to put this Fire out; you have to erase Mankind from the History of the Earth, because it began with Mankind; it will end with Mankind's Extinction.

I am not saying, "NO MORE!" I am saying "KNOW MORE!"
HAVE I GOT YOUR ATTENTION

© copyright R Anthony H. Rock