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| Mar 22, 2009 9:04 am |
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re: re: "Strong Poltical Systems" - Two Party Systems. |
John Stephen Veitch
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Star Parker, wrote about "Why Christians Must Be Politically Active".
She was writing for a Christian audience, and much of what she says is biased by the expectation that here audience would agree with her.
This bias has helped her to disregard the facts: so there is little that she says that I agree with except the following quotes.
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"Over the years, political/secular consciousness has, sadly, advanced in our country(USA)"
Of course, following the rest of the Western world, (Eastern world too actually) as Lloyd Geering said about Europe and NZ and Canada; "Christendom is no more." Those who remain in traditional churches can't maintain the property nor in the modern context do their rituals and beliefs make any sense. Those in the New Life churches has in fact chosen "old life" to follow church belief and doctrine that modern Christian thinkers abandoned 100 years ago, and was discredited by theologians 150 years before that. So the New Life Churches have no real future.
"On the other hand, secular Americans, for whom life is all politics, are more likely to be active and engaged. The result is that secular Americans have had a disproportionate impact on our country over recent years."
I think that BOTH Christian Americans and secular Americans are disengaged from American politics. There are very good reasons for that. American politics is not responsive to public needs. The vote is a con-job, politics is rigged, and both parties are actively engaged in playing the rigging game. It's a pretence of a democracy. You can see that by Obama's complete inability to deal with the financial crisis in any other way but to PAY OFF the sorto of people who put up the money for his election.
(Had John McCain been elected, he would be doing almost exactly the same thing. The both suffer by being owned by the same paymaster.)
"The political greatness of our country is that it is free. But it is up to citizens to decide what to do with that freedom."
Well YES, that's an enlightened statement. But since it's not true, there's the problem.
"We are in a crisis because the wrong people have been making the wrong decisions for too many years."
100% right, but you get what you pay for. And the system allows big money to buy the representatives and to determine policy, shutting out the public. The public vote counts for almost nothing.
"A hundred years ago, government - federal and local - took less than ten percent of our income. Today, it is more than one third. If things continue on their current path, by mid-century it will be one half."
Yes that's true. And in future the government is going to take even more than 50% of the richest Americans. Wealth has to be redistributed or the lack of equity will tear America apart. In addition the massive "national debt" now being created has to be got rid of in some way. There are two possible ways.
1) Increased taxes. Actually increased taxes is more fair and desirable.
2) Inflation. Inflation looks painless, but it really means your hard earned money from the past is worthless in the future. The rich and those with savings and investments lose most, the incentive to invest gets twisted to look for tax breaks or capital gains relief. This is undesirable but almost certainly will be the main way to solve the problem.
(People may have paper profits in worthless dollars. It's a mirage.)
John Stephen Veitch
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