by G E Barr

Created on: April 10, 2009   Last Updated: April 11, 2009

The Politics of Freedom

I am a member of the National Organization for Women. There is a chapter in Oklahoma, but I am not a member of that chapter. I currently live in Oklahoma, but not in the region where the Oklahoma NOW chapter is located. Having learned the hard way how local politics work and just how bad things can get, I will not ever be a member of the Oklahoma NOW chapter.

Here's why: If I, in the best interest of myself or my children, write something which someone locally doesn't like, they make my life hard. This problem could reach the Oklahoma NOW chapter. The local problems which are just basically mutilating my life and effecting my children and grandchildren, are not the fault of NOW and why stir the pot? Therefore, my association with NOW is through the New York City chapter. The headquarters.

I will be sending money to NOW in New York City.

The bicameral quality of politics in this country is not a simple black and white monomial equation. It is complex. For instance, there might be one member of Congress who agrees with me on certain issues, but that one person is from Ohio. Perhaps that person is attempting to do something that will positively effect this country and I want that person to succeed because I care about this country. If I am blocked from sending finances to that person, would that not undermine the goal of America?

While this same scenario could possibly involve some evil intentions, this is why the first amendment is so vitally important. This is why it is so vitally important that American's become as literate as possible.

In other words, should I be held accountable for the intellectual lack of others? Is that not dehumanizing and demoralizing? Yes, it is. Why does it have to be that way? The continuous and methodical psychological destruction of the young. I do a little socializing (anonymously) on a chat site. What I have noticed is that people are constantly attacked for WHAT they think. I'm not talking about someone being vulgar and being called on it, I'm talking about the attempt to shut someone up because they are not a neo-conservative or very sensitively liberal.

What if a member of Congress from say, Florida, is running on a platform of literacy and is facing a huge block by others in several states? Those who want to continue to control and run things? Would it not be beneficial that I would be able to send funds to that person in the best interest of the country?

If anything, this seperateness is what kept Jim Crow alive for so long and it is what causes generational poverty in some areas by ensuring protection for sycophant systems which have over many decades parasitically leeched the lifeblood out of regions, set up some families as "royalty" and enabled the keeping ignorant of otherwise bright people. Those so called "royal" family members found in police departments, schools and other key positions. Not because they were moral, bright and ambitious, but because they are "in the know".

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