Left vs Right in todays USA, is a show to keep people from communicating long enough to see what kind of BS is going in with our government.
A couple days ago a airship built by lockheed for the US Air Force, costing $150 million was launched and in minutes crashed. Thats 150 million of US tax dollars wasted on an unmanned aircraft based on a blimp. Its job was to see if they could use a high altitude airship to relay communications like a satellite. Supposedly this would allow for satellite-like communications ability and a claimed "fraction" of the cost of a satellite. First 150 mil is hardly what I would consider cheap. Second the cavalier manner that lockheed and the air force responded told me everything I wanted to know. To them it was oh well we will get it next time.
We got debt that threatens to close critical government functions and they take that kind attitude? And whats worse most people didn't even care either... Why? Because they are occupied with watching a bunch over paid, barely working, fat, lazy, bullshit artists point the finger at one another.
No one seems to notice that for the past 10 years (8 of one administration and 2 with the current) virtually nothing has changed. Health care reform just made the government liable for unpaid medical bills, bailing out automakers just saved the executives of those companies, and the debt has increased exponentially because of it. We are still at war and looks to be no end in sight for them, and this despite Obama's claims to end them...
And still people buy into the BS... Seriously, NAFTA, CAFTA, and all other trade deals that opened the door for jobs to be outsourced and companies to move manufacturing to cheaper labor countries, that gutted the middle class took BOTH sides to pull off. Half the freaking lefties that supported going to war in Iraq who then backpedaled and claimed they were tricked are now part and parcel to not only the continuation of the conflicts and new ones, but now helped to make the dam debt problems we have right now. And the righties who claimed they wanted fiscal responsibility and small government supported every dam thing that Bush did to make the government bigger than ever and spend more and more without even a shred of that responsibility.
Yet people still buy it... Yeah it was the democrats or yeah it was the republicans, hell take your pick. It doesn't matter anyway. You want to figure out why some people look to the tea party groups? Well there is your answer man, its not rocket science. Some people see the lunacy of it all and want more from their government than placating and finger-pointing.
TO get anything done in congress it takes at least SOME support across sides. And to continue to play along while both parties act like teenagers with their parents credit card is not only ignorant to a fault but completely inexcusable in todays age of information. Look around you people.
The politicians rely on us being to willfully ignorant to call them on their BS. And the major media will not help you. Not anymore, we can thank ourselves for that too. We allowed ourselves to be told that allowing corporations to buy up local media would be a good thing and we would get better news for it. Low and behold here we are with media that now takes political sides.. left or right, anytime a peoples first line of defense takes a political side the people no longer have that first line of defense.
If you want the truth these days you have to think critically and ask questions. Questions about everything you see on TV, hear on the radio, read about in the papers or web, and even questions about what you perceive vs what you are told. We have to stop taking the bold headlines and making assumptions, stop assuming that the media is being completely open and honest and stop trusting that what you are being told isn't misleading or inaccurate. When you read a headline next time if its on the web follow the sources, or in the paper ask yourself who owns that paper or if there is another side to this story. And if its on the TV remember that each news network is owned by a corporation now. Corporations that DO have a dog in the fight..
If we don't stop being led by the nose and bickering over the "Pro-Wrasslin" like sideshow, we will never see things any better...