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Ah....thanksgiving in R'Leya. So many memories.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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It's far easier to point to another group and claim they are the problem then it is to address the problems of your own group and take the appropriate steps to fix them. People respond more quickly and with more energy to a perceived threat from an external force than to their own internal operations. It then becomes easy for someone with an anger issue to play on these same issues in others lives and turn their thinking, subtly, till you've turned them to your own liking. Once that is done, you have your own little mafia/gestapo/religion/political party to achieve YOUR view of how things "ought to be". It doesn't matter if your machinations lead to your own destruction as long as you take down your enemy. And your actions will lead to another group's response to you in the same way and the cycle continues.
Look at everyday people. Some are overweight, but they won't diet or exercise. Some are lacking education, but don't try to go to school or even darken the doorstep of a library. You see people's houses falling down into disrepair. But rather than fix the problems, they have cable, HBO, and their own Keg-i-nators. And then they blame their problems on some other group.
Humanity always has an excuse. From "The woman that thou gavest me" to Fraudian (pun entended) blaming your parents for your failures. Rather than a true introspection of your own weaknesses and issues, focus on what someone else is doing wrong. It is far easier to justify your own lacking by comparatively measuring them to others "WORSE" failings. That is the pitiful attempt to assuage one's own personal guilt and leads to a natural "us vs. them" mentality.
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Which is fine to say as an induvual, but find a leader that can hold office by saying- "Our problems are our own fault" nad get anything accomplished.
He would be opposed at every turn by his own lack of popularity.
During times of peace (say the Clinton administration as example), public response to progessive (some would say "liberal") leglislation is far more positive than during a time of percieved danger.
Not that it's any excuse for the abuses in power we've witnessed in the Bush administration.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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