‘Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.’ Leo Tolstoy
While playing around with my paid CSS upgrade to my purple ‘DayDream’ theme, I decided to save the above quote on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:53:11 AM to my personal computer. I then am reminded about the theme of ‘change’ Barack Obama has been presenting throughout his campaign for president of the United States and decided to post this blog entry.
In his many ‘Messianic’-like speeches, Barack wants to change the world too. This ‘change’, my friends, is almost next to impossible. In this mid-morning’s radio talk show hosted by Rush Limbaugh, there is no way ‘change’ would occur in the short-term.
Why? Because there are the lobbyist and the special [Ahem!] interest groups, who won’t seem to go away. As one caller, who subcontracts paint jobs in and around the Atlanta, Georgia area, mentioned people are ignorant and not understanding the message made by Barack. As long as everyone is able-bodied, people should work hard to get anywhere in life.
The show goes on to say how pitiful people (probably including most of the younger voters obviously) would vote (via this ‘D3’ I heard) based on the color of the skin per 40% white people and per 20% black people alone. People should vote for a candidate not only with experience (and not another baby-sitter, of course) but they need to listen to what the candidates are saying and use their critical thinking about how to effect this ‘change’.
This ‘change’ would most definitely have to start somewhere lower than at the grass roots level. This forward-looking idea would require people to change themselves – bad habits, attitude and overall way of thinking and living. Can anyone honestly say they could stop smoking cold turkey, stop eating cold turkey and any meat-related foodstuff, stop gambling away hard-earned cash meant to pay down one’s mortgage and stop drinking alcohol that causes cirrhosis of the liver and ultimately drive away family and friends?
I guess the change cannot occur at the government level above without ‘proof’ from the people below as a gauge to implement this worldwide change that people seem so worked up on and about on ‘having’ that will never will be given without something in return, which happens to be working and paying taxes. There is no way to avoid both issues. They are not mutually exclusive of each other.
For example, I don’t expect the welfare program to improve by much because, as mentioned in my previous blog entries, there are bound to be abuse of this ‘socialist’ system, whereby free handouts are given to anyone who qualifies. How would you like working hard for someone else and find out that the freeloader (for whatever reasons) don’t pull his or her weight around the house and everything else? That’s the way people are. They lie and cheat to get what they want.
We know everyone does this, including our representatives who are already rich and own lots of property. They don’t need our donations for their campaign. They got lots more cash than any of hard working citizens could ever ‘have’ in a lifetime. So this ‘change’ is only good to hear while on the campaign trail.
As I told ‘them’ a couple of weeks ago, the bottom-line results is what I am waiting to observe. Everything else in between now and whatever goal (via media spinning of newsworthy, sensationalistic events) is merely more ‘Hollywood-like’ productions to cover more actions behind the scenes. This means our votes are wasted. Hillary Clinton won the popularity vote. But the electoral vote counted more for Barack Obama. Voting fraud is one of many issues that, my friends, will not change, ever.
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