VIOLENCE AND POLITICS

THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IS A

LONG STANDING HISTORICAL FACT

IN AMERICA BUT PRACTICED NOW

IN A FOG OF DISTRUST AND HATE.

BOTH PARTIES CAN ONLY SEE ABOUT

20 FEET AHEAD ALLOWING THEM TO

AVOID AN UNINTENTIONAL SUICIDAL

HEAD ON COLLISION.

PERHAPS THE REORIENTATION

OF POLITICS AND TECHNOLOGY WILL

SOON MAKE DEMOCRACY A DEAD

ELEPHANT AND DONKEY BURIED AND

IN TIME AND FOSSILIZED LIKE

DINOSAURS.

DEMOCRACY WILL BECOME A MUSEUM

RELIC. THE POLITICAL PROCESS IN

AMERICA WILL REMAIN SHROUDED IN

MYSTERY LIKE MANY OF THE EARTHS

CREATURES, AMERICAS DEMOCRACY

WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DECIPHER

AFTER THE FACT,THE CATACOMBS

OF SECRECY AND DECEIT WILL MAKE

THIS A CHORE.

WE CAN SAY THIS ABOUT THE FIRST

100 DAYS OF OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY,

HE HAS BEEN STONE WALLED BY THE

REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO ARE HELL

BENT ON COMPLETELY HALTING THE

POLITICAL PROCESS AND THE

SUBSEQUENT RUNNING OF A POWERFUL

NATION AT ANY COST.

THIS REFLECTS AN ATMOSPHERE

OF VIOLENCE. THIS STONEWALLING

OF THE UNITED STATES POLITICAL

PROCESS IS A FORM OF PASSIVE VIOLENCE.

NO BETTER TERM COULD BE COINED THAN

IT'S "LIKE SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE

FOOT". VIOLENCE HAS INFECTED THE

NATION.VIOLENCE IS NOW USED AS A

COMMON VEHICLE FOR EXPRESSING

FRUSTRATION, IT HAS BECOME A FORM

OF JUSTICE FOR AN ALARMING NUMBER

OF PEOPLE. VIOLENCE HAS BECOME A

IMPORTANT, AND POPULAR FORM OF

EDUCATION FOR YOUNG AMERICAN

MALES. QUICKLY IT IS BEGINNING TO

HAVE EQUAL FOOTING AS A

DESIRABLE FORM OF EDUCATION FOR

YOUNG AMERICAN FEMALES. WE ARE

A NATION OF WARRIORS WHO HAVE

BECOME EXPERTS IN THE MOST EFFICIENT

FORMS OF KILLING AND VIOLENCE.

WE HAVE BEEN AT WAR AS LONG AS

I CAN REMEMBER, MY MEMORY FAILS

ME WHEN I TRY RECALL ANY LENGTHY

PERIODS OF PEACE. THE ENORMOUS

BUDGET FOR THE SCHOOLS OF WAR

DWARFS THE BUDGET ALLOTTED TO

"PEACEFUL FORMS OF EDUCATION". IT

IS NO WONDER THAT VIOLENCE HAS

BECOME AN INHERENT PART OF THE

NATIONS PSYCHE.

IN THE PAST DEMOCRATS REPEATEDLY

USED THE POLITICS OF HATE AGAINST

BUSH AND OTHERS. THEY CONTINUE

THIS PRACTICE TO A LESSER EXTENT

BUT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEGAN

TO PRACTICE WHAT IS AN EXTREME

FORM OF THIS FORM OF HATE THAT

WILL EVENTUALLY DESTROY THE POLITICAL

PROCESS IN AMERICA. THERE IS AFTER

ALL ONLY ONE PRESIDENT, THE

PRACTICE OF UNILATERALLY,

OFFENSIVELY, STONEWALLING THE

PRESIDENT IS SELF DEFACING AND

DESTRUCTIVE. IT IS THE MOST

UNDIGNIFIED FORM OF POLITICAL

ACTION. WHEN HAS THE PRACTICE OF

DOING NOTHING BECOME A PLATFORM

OF PROGRESS FOR THE NATION.