Here, in the First World, we’re made to believe in wealth and the traditional way of life or to care about the poor, and liberal causes. We are made to believe the rich, wealth and tradition is the enemy of the poor and liberalism. We are made to believe we can have the traditional, prosperous, comfortable way of life, or help poor people, install liberal policies, not both. We are supposed to choose a side, stand with our tribe, and not mind the absolute rifts this causes in society.
We are meant to choose a political side and stress out, hate, and be traumatized if the other wins. Theoretically and really, this shouldn’t be the case, as all parties should be on the same page. There are right and wrong answers, and unless all parties agree to stick to the right answers, then you are causing unrest and civil war, which is basically the state we all, politically, are living in.
The solution, to this nightmare situation, is to realize both sides, conservative traditionalists and progressive liberals, have merit, right answers, and both sides need to survive and thrive. They do share common values and principles, and pressing points that they must uphold. Realize this, and then realize that austerity too has an agenda, and points, and recognize them as clearly, being non-supportive to either liberal or conservatives values, policies and issues.
Austerity succeeds by ignoring and hiding the simple facts of life and reality. It has an agenda, and for its survival, it needs to do one thing: divide the masses. Diversive is the most common adjective used to describe leaders who support austerity politics. That’s because strong and absolute division is necessary to their, and its survival politically.
They have created a debate culture, upped the stakes so people’s lives and liberty are at stake, and then sat back with their billions and watched humanity debate, and disagree themselves into recession, permanent unrest, states of hate, and our planet into destruction. Then they created their big lie, one bought and sold by austerity politicians, media and much of the general public.
The big lie is that we can’t afford prosperity and compassion. We can’t afford to have a wealthy nation and progressive policies. We can’t cherish our tradition, and progress, become a better people. We can’t afford to continue our standard of living, and to help the poor, middle class survive and thrive. It’s a ridiculous premise but has been accepted as fact since the rise, in the mid 1980s, of extreme capitalist conservatism.
This big lie, it can be one or the other, not both, was created, and is upheld, and santified by far extremists, and extreme capitalists. They thrive in bad times, and by dividing and, thereby, stalling most of humanity and life’s natural progress. It keeps Capitalism’s wheels running, but not much else.
When war, natural disaster, industry bailout requests happen, every western nation can afford it. Billions are suddenly available. It is usually for war, but never is it used for peace. Peace is never seen as an important a goal, need, and mission. This is really too bad, as seeing that it’s the most important thing, is the only way to end the big lie, and austerity’s power and grip on life. The truth is we are living in a deep crisis, and we can afford to end it, to keep both sides happy, to save our planet, and animals safe, and create an economy that thrives, and allows all to live comfortably and prosper.
Realizing, and then establishing this understanding, will not only save the First World, it will also save, and progress the entire world. We need to finance peace at home to help peace everywhere. We need to cut through extremist politics, stick with popular opinion and trends, not the populist ones, and find our common ground, and finance and move forward on these.
We are living with much dread, stress and we are a world imperiled. Its all been created by sin, and greed is paramount in this. The solution is easy. Politicians listening to the people. Voters on both sides picking candidates that can, and do cross the divide, who’s policies speak to all, not only their party, who have the right answers. We can save the world and easily. We just need to pull down the walls erected by sin, ignorance and extremist whim and aim. Once we do that, individually and collectively, you can see not much really divides us.
Its only fear, sin and ignorance that’s driving us into tribes, and writing our history for us. We are living in potentially great times. Let’s rise above the walls created by wrongness and come together to create a deeper and real peace. We need to do this because its what’s right, what makes sense, what is good for all, what will move humanity and our world forward, and yes, we can definitely afford it.
