The Struggle to Keep U.S. Down

What do I know?  There is an unnamed class of U.S. citizenry that is being taken advantage of to no end.  While most are not aware of their membership in this class, we (because I am certainly not immune from this condition) are an overwhelming majority of the population at one time or another.  As good citizens, we have a responsibility to help these folks with special needs.  We need to show them love, and not gloss over the realities of the world in a poorly orchestrated attempt to "shelter" them.

I believe that we have failed these people in two ways, and both are completely our own responsibility as good citizens.  The first is an undeveloped education system that is being forced to do less in order that everyone be the same.  The second is the never ending supply of folks seeking to take unfair advantage of our condition in order to further their own goals.  We allow them to dictate our ways and preferences in ways that we should all be ashamed of.

What makes this such a struggle is our diversification and specialization as time goes on.  Anyone attempting to get anywhere in life is expected to be pretty skilled at one or a few activities, and then allowed to let their skills fall off in other areas.  If we are not allowed the opportunity to help ourselves continue to grow, we will continue down the path of relative ignorance.

What happened now?  Once again, we are allowing the wool-pullers to "guide" us in the direction of their choosing.  I'm not here to make a political stand for or against anyone.  Rather, I'm here to make an apolitical stand.  We have let ourselves become a society of Us versus Them, and it needs to stop.

I've been hearing of too many people siding with their political candidate of choice, simply because they like them or because they aren't the person they don't like.  In this day of information overload, it is all too easy to simply shut it out, but doing that will allow the Wool-Pullers to win!  Do you know what else helps them win?  Getting irate about how terrible they are can actually turn those of us in the unnamed class away from from you, and cause us to have sympathy for the bad people.  We just don't know any better, and don't have the inclination to find out when somebody wants to yell about it.

We need to find a way to act together, no matter who wins, or we will be lost in the devisive rhetoric engendered by the pushers of wool.  The next time you see somebody falling victim to sloganeering or lying to keep your attention, grab that wool and make them a sweater!!

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On the next episode of Desperate Mansionwives...

What have I seen on TV? I'm a fan of the show Desperate Housewives. I enjoy the way the characters can manage to get themselves into some rather impossible situations, and the even more impossible methods they think up to get out of them. While waiting for the new season to start, it seems as if I'm getting political substitute in the form of certain parties trying to find their way to an election victory.

The show features a woman named Bree Van de Kamp (now Bree Hodge), who has been brought to the forefront of my attention when regarding a certain young woman who might be running for the office of Vice President. Bree is known for being very proper and upstanding. She is a regular attendee at church, is very involved in her community, and knows her way around firearms. She also has some skeletons in her closet from time to time. One of the those skeletons came from her daughter having unprotected sex at an early age. In order to save face, Bree sent her daughter to a convent in Switzerland to stay for the rest of her pregnancy, but told everyone she was "continuing her studies" in Europe. Knowing that her daughter wouldn't want to keep the baby, Bree began wearing a fake belly to look pregnant to the outside world with the intention of raising the baby as her own after it was born.

What happened now? There are a number of stories I have become aware of that point to a similar tale that could try to combine a Desperate Housewives-like story with one not unlike The West Wing! What if Bree's Wisteria Lane was in a the booming metropolis of Wasilla, Alaska? How about it if Bree's strong sense of duty let her to run for Mayor, then Governor of the state? What if her daughter, Danielle, was taken out of school for eight months because of a particularly strong case of mononucleosis, instead of calling it traveling abroad, because she was actually pregnant? What if Bree was being considered as a possible candidate for Vice President of the United States, and realized that the shallow covering for her daughter's actions might not stand up to nationwide scrutiny?

How would you make the scheme less susceptible to leaks and holes? If I were Bree, I might consider a new twist. It might be a fitting lesson for my daughter (now leading a much more public and responsible life) to strap on my fake pregnant belly for a few months, just long enough for it to establish the impossibility of the real pregnancy having been hers. After a few months, I could trump up some story about how the pregnancy was threatening my daughter's life. If my daughter was behaving well, she wouldn't need to be dealt with directly, but could simply lose the belly.

That would be some real entertainment.

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