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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