Someone close to me insinuated that the American people are getting what they wanted, and that what they want is socialism, and that the Presidential Office is going to do its best to deliver.
I am not a socialist.
My thought is along the lines of, "So what if we become a socialist country?" Let's change that statement to, "So what if we become a series of nomadic tribes?". My feeling is that if the people want it, then why not let them have it? If the majority votes for laws that require us all to wear purple bow ties on Tuesdays, then that's what the people want.
Secondly, look at the crap that's been carried out in the name of "preserving our way of life". We can't be bothered to pay higher prices for renewable sources of energy. We can't be asked to carpool. We can't be asked to lay aside our differences and stop a 2,000 year old holy war. We can't stop watering our lawns. Our way of life is destructive to individuals, to countries, to culture, and to the planet we live on. We suck. Our "way of life" is short sighted.
Yes. Many good things have been done to preserve our "way of life". Fighting for freedom, for the right to be represented. These things are paid for in the blood of Americans. But the things that aren't on the ladder of things we need, maybe it is time we stopped fighting over those things and explored a way to compromise.
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Seriously... when is the state, nay the people of California going to pass a law outlawing lawn watering? It needs to happen. I know what you are going to say "Matt just stand up and stop watering your lawn" but neighborhood peer pressure and property values lead me to decide to keep watering... but if EVERYONE stopped all at once, brown lawns would be the norm and I'd have nothing to worry about.
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