Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Fear and labeling in politics the real fake story


 The Damage Fear  Can Do


So this gay, Chinese, left-handed, baptist gymnastics instructor goes  down to the second amendment  protest rally—what is he screaming?   I wouldsn’t know and neither  would you... after all how many of people carrying  these labels around do you know personally or well enough  to answer that question?  What if I threw in. That he just returned from the local firing range after firing  500 rounds from his semi-automatic long barreled pistol?  


Next, meet  Carlos Leibovitz a candidate  for U.S. Representative .  Here is a commercial you probably won’t. Hear.  

“Did you know that Carlos took money from big pharma just like me and his ideas  on farm subsidies are pretty much like mine, our kids go to the same schools, are income brackets are pretty much the same and if we really analyzed. Things he’s about  80% the same  as me on most things and  90% the same on the re3st and. Gee he’s about 70% the same as  all you voters.”    Now  what. Is that % of difference?  Well Carlos wants to  have an investigation  regarding  how MedicareCodesneedto be applied to elective surgery.”  So Here’s the commercial you might hear.


Carlos Leibovitz wants to take your medical choices away and promotes socialized medicines that  won’t. Allow you to work with the doctors you know and trust.  


You see you can’t sell minor differences very well because most people. Don’t fear them enough to act.  


The result—we are encouraged to  support our politicians  by promoting the dualistic fear-driven  views that. Are promoted.  The problem?


What if  every political debate started  out with a challenge to all the candidates. To identify as many  things he or she has in common with the”opponent?”   How might that  reduce the use of fear-based  campaigning—not to mention  things like legislating  and public service.  


Most of the problems that. Government  is tasked with  approaching cannot be  worked upon by only  half the country.  So what happens because we result to selling fear?  The majority party pushes a group of objectives, not because they are important, but because they are no longer  too controversial and won’t be the fuel of others who want to  invent fear.   This means that many significant problems that get worse over time have to wait yet another  election cycle.  


It is tempting to go on and on  about fear in politics and how it sets up dualism.  The fact is that all labels attached to humans have now become. Potential  seeds from which fear can be grown and distributed.   


Unfortunately, now that we face issues that impact. More than half the country we lack the tools to  identify common ground and meanings.  We have a government-related discourse based upon pushing apart rather than pulling together.  


Most Americans want communities  to become the best places to live, raise  kids, and grow old so what if...


When the advocates  marched through Kenosha  (regardless of their  residency status,  the response was to line up  along the street or even in the street with  buckets of  asphalt and shovels so that  pot holes could be patched by  worried city officials and citizen patrols.  What if the construction workers and mechanics in the crowd and in the protest groups were  given tools and supplies to create signs but also to paint  run down houses and repair schools?  What if Instead of having the National Guard patrolling  and having curfews, people were allowed to  break “curfew  to go with the Guard to parks and playgrounds that. We’re to be cleaned and  also to plant trees?  What if we conquered this fear and showed through love that. We all value safe neighborhoods where we have ownership and pride in belonging?  Of course that would mean that  we can agree on most important stuff and still engage in. Individual. Differences and take personal responsibility.  


All this would take is not putting up with the bullying techniques of labelling, Recognizing  that fear selling keeps people’s mind in a mode that. Has them focusing on what they are not rather. Than on the gifts they have and the vast social riches they could create.  This creativity explosion  would fight off apathy that comes from being weary from all the running back and forth from one  mindless extreme to. Another.  


Okay enough of a sermon. Today... 

Tomorrow we talk about. The fear of missing out so you’d better not  miss it and the fear of not being perfect which you had better. Read or  you might  make a big mistake that everybody sees.  


Oh..... just take a look tomorrow.  

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