Well, I've completed enough research on the topic myself to come to the same exact decision I made regarding voting: to completely abstain (completely non-partisan, non-voting, non-attending, purely by educated conscious will). It's nothing but chaos, withheld information on both ends in the public eye unless you're a full-devotee, and so on and so forth. What bothers me regarding my decision is that I've taken a few government courses throughout my years to understand it (which also appalls me that government is not a class being taught in schools; I had to be home-schooled in it), and at times where I am curious about our future, I do research at times, and brush up on what I learned and expand some of it. These days, regardless anything I've seen on the political and activism front, it looks like nothing more than a schizophrenic bi-polar wild child with a parent that can give less of a crap about them because they were an unwanted child. Make of that analogy what you will. Maybe I'm a bleeding heart, but things have gotten so screwy on both ends of this debate, I don't know who to trust anymore. And from that POV, I will remain silent and (willingly) ignorant and worry about my own life, and adapt to what comes my way, as usual.
On the surface, I am in plenty of agreement about the rich and corporate funding of election campaigns and what have you, and how silly it's become (like a highschool politics session); however, delving deeper, with respect to the views of the opposing party and other members of my family, I respect the noble cause of what I've seen on the surface, but the potential of socialism and communism stuff gets me a little worried, and completely muddles my radar of whose truly in the right after all. It's like there's no such thing as a 'good guy' or 'bad guy' in this mess, and it's become a secondary layer of politics; except with greater numbers, and more underhanded methods of screwing with the minds of people, informed or not, from any walk of life. There's no such thing as notability anymore.
With that, for my own sanity, and ease of adaptability whatever end is met, along with my social stand, I'm abstaining from any more of this until true legitimacy is shown on both ends of the spectrum (which is like getting an answer to what women want. Likely never going to come no matter how long I wait or who would answer; and would likely get my ass kicked anyway for asking by anybody (male or female, married or single).). If OWS is truly a socialist movement, say so, and stop manipulating with nobility to patriotism; 1%ers just answer what you are really doing with our money, and what plans you have with it, and let your financial leaders inform us on the practicality of it, and how long it will take before things reset itself (like an economic defibrillator) and beat properly again, and stop manipulating us with nobility to patriotism.
What this country (or more like world) needs is a swift kick to it's ass, and I mean everyone needs a nice big indiscriminate kick to the ass; regardless age, gender, or origin. My message to everyone involved in all this (all parties and observers): look into yourselves, and what's going on. Is it truly in line with your moral code, or are you just glancing at what appeals to them most? I'm the kind of person that would do what is right if it truly calls for it, and seeing how easily maliable my perceptions tend to be, and this isn't the first time I've had my views twisted and shoved all over the place by all sorts of groups and so forth, I figure the right thing for me to do (with respect) is to get as far away from this potential nuke as possible, just in case it explodes, and don't get caught in the blastwave, and don't eat or drink anything fertilized by the fallout.
I apologize if anything I state offends anyone, but I have trust issues in any case, and I don't like siding with someone I thought was good, but ends up actually being the bad guy (or been the bad guy all along). I respect everything I saw at first with the OWS movement, and I agree that the bankers need to be a little more practical with our country's money; but I don't think leveling the disparity will fix it all. I tried some of this kind of stuff in Tropico (or witnessed incidents similar to this movement occur in the game), and know full-well that it's helpful at first, and then out of nowhere, where'd the money go? Now whose to blame?
Funny thought, Tropico is actually a good sim game for this kind of stuff. Have an island with an economic problem, and find a way to fix it to make everyone happy (high cumulative political and happiness score to win, along with a high enough island value/cash on hand, and you start in total crap (<20 cumulatively in both categories, and it starts off in high chaos/revolution/coup potential, and only enough money to make little improvement anywhere; no random events that influence the outcome. Just a sandbox situation starting from a completely hostile startup.)). Somebody needs to make a non-biased scenario based on what's going on to challenge anyone from any walk of life to come up with a reasonably sound solution within short notice. 5 years to fix a major economic problem with limited resources. Actually, just about any sim game can turn this chaos into a fun and somewhat practical means of finding a solution. Also doubles as a means of seeing how good a leader someone truly is as well.
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