Zombie Politics

As of late a couple of things I have been getting into have opened my eyes to what I will call “zombie Politics.”
This came about because of this being an election year and because I have been exposed to a lot of Zombie books/stories lately.

To get to the point, I noticed that there are some features of Politics that are very similar to the way Zombies operate.
There is a tendency, in both parties, to take the attitude that “[my] candidate is the right one no matter what.”
The idea is that no matter how badly they have screwed things up the candidate that is in the party of the person you are talking to HAS to be the better choice than the “Other guy”. (Often this is said in a sneering hateful way with pure poison glinting from the eyes of the speaker).
The thing is that, that attitude is the SAME attitude I see in the zombie stories.
Ok I know that last bit is a bit of a leap. Let me clarify.

To make that assertion, to insist that your candidate is The ONLY possible choice just because he/she is the one your party picked is to deny independent thinking.
For example, George w Bush. The democrats often vilified him and he was often held up as a hero by the republicans.
Here’s the thing… HE WAS HUMAN! And he made the same mistakes that ALL humans make. Were all his policies good? NO. were they all bad? NO!
How about Barack Hussein Obama? Were all his choices good? NO! Were they all Bad? No.

There are many decisions that were made by both that I disagree with. The thing that confuses me is that a lot of the people who were absolutely, positively 100 percent without a doubt completely against the ideas that George Bush had (because he was an evil horrible terrible despicable piece Of &#!% &*&%^ %$ *&^^&**^%^%#$… Again all said with as much venom and hatred worked in as possible), these people who were against Bush’s policies had NO problem/s whatsoever with the continuation of those policies under Obama. On the other hand there are people who ADORED Bush, Who cannot stand the policies of Obama’s that are mere continuations of the policies Bush set in motion.

The thing is that they choose to disagree with the candidate based NOT on the issues but on the PARTY. I still remember talking with people who were anti Bush when he was up for reelection. They were truly aghast at the idea of Bush having a second term and they vilified him every opportunity they got.

Some of the things they said and some of the ways they acted were very troubling to me. The kind of hatred they were displaying is something I would have never expected to see outside of a movie like Friday the 13th or something. It really came out as being true (EVIL) hatred!

But there was no reason for it. They were the true definition of UN reasonable. It did not matter what the facts were or the needs of the country. They had to see him out of office P-E-R-I-O-D! no matter what. The thing is that when they finally got their wish (hurling epithets at the poor guy as he boarded his helicopter for the ride home) they put into office a guy who did Exactly the same stuff as his predecessor.
And no matter what they said about how evil and wrong Bush was in his choices when those choices were made by their guy Oh no those are OK. And vicea versa

This is not the action/s of a thinking intelligent person. IF we are going to think about our issues then we have to take the FACTS and look at them in the light then make a decision that resolves the issue/s.
Are we spending too much? I think so. Do we need to maintain a strong defense? I think so. Do we need to make sure that everyone in our country can have the opportunity to grow and escell? Um YES I think we can all agree on that.

But there is no one in the last few years who has been meeting all those options. They are too embroiled in ideals and rhetoric. They are too interested in party lines. And so they vote based on something else. On a lack of intelligence. That is the way that Zombies operate.
Thus I propose, my fellow sojourner, that what we need to do is to look at the realities of everything. We need to figure out that this is NOT a perfect world, and there are not things that can be done about some of what is going on.
So we need to find the best way to go. That may mean that we have to give up some of our ideals. But need is more important to address than want.

So think about it. What do we need?

We need what the founding fathers offered. A place, a haven, where freedom is appreciated. Where we can worship (or not) AS WE WANT TO.
We Need to be sure that our freedom/s, our privileges and our responsibilities match, EQUALLY.
We need to make sure that we use, Not abuse, our resources.
And we need to continue to be a country that sets the standards.

How many of you are nodding your heads at these statements? How many of you are shaking your heads?

Some of those points are espoused by one side, some by the other. But the thing is that neither side necessarily has All the answers.
What both sides need to do is to take the blinders off and see the whole picture.
What good does it do us to save the wilderness for our children, if in order to do it we have to kill our children?
What good is it to raise your children with hope when you have destroyed all there is for them to hope for?

We have GOT to figure out where the real road is and stop focusing on our ideals refusing to give an inch.

In short it is time to face reality people. And this Election season let us try to address that as much as possible.