Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Feeling the Bern & The Capacity to Love and Empathize: What Being Religious is all About!!


(D)ude: Man! The two terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium this morning were the consequence of the United States Republican Party’s reign of obstructionist revenge on the homeland and abroad. They are creating chaos and committing organized crimes, while feigning innocence and a sense of stupor, the case in point being the American Press Corps’ carefully arranged choreography with the Republican Party to bring horrific scenes of death and destruction into the world through calculated terrorism on the part of the GOP and the media.


(M)an: Dude! What are you talking about? The Republican Party leaders are all mouthpieces of the oligarchs in the United States of America. Mouthpieces suffer from an absence of empathic response and embody a universal and criminal disregard for human life. Donald Trump, John Kasich, and Ted Cruz are a conglomerate of the Super-PACs made as a result of 2010’s Citizens United decision by the United States Supreme Court, and all three GOP presidential contenders couldn’t care less for their constituents as much as they care for making themselves wealthy through dislodging and dispensing the fossil fuel infrastructures at home and abroad for themselves.


D: Man! The Republican Party has been up to no good inside the United States Congress where they hold a majority of the seats but cannot come up with anything but obstructionism and creeping into legislation what they are commanded by the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson or any of the many oligarchs to include at the very last minute in order to avoid public scrutiny from the Democratic Party. The Republican Party membership is foolishly misbehaving in order to compensate for its collective low intellect. And if oligarchy prevails in the new millennium, with the ushering of Donald Trump or John Kasich or Ted Cruz into the White House, you’re going to have a conundrum like none other than what happened with birth of the the atomic model. Remember Niels Bohr?


M: Dude! The atomic model with the nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons? How does this configure with what we’re talking about the Republican Party and oligarchs destroying the American democratic model?


D: Man! Well, Niels Bohr applied for a scholarship in order to attend college after completing his secondary education. He was of humble origins therefore he needed the scholarship in order to continue his academic journey into higher education. However, he lost the scholarship to another student and was wait listed to receive it in case the winner chose to drop out of contention for whatever reason. The winner did choose to surrender the opportunity in order to marry a sweetheart and start a family instead.


M: Dude! Why didn’t the winner marry and then enroll in university studies as well?


D: Man! For whatever reasons he may have had, his role in creating the single opportunity for Niels Bohr to advance onto university studies instead of, perhaps, settling for something outside of the vicinity of academia, specifically physics, is well documented. I read a detailed bio of Niels Bohr in Advanced Placement Chemistry when we were juniors in high school. I think you were completing electives that year while I chose to follow the footsteps of our senior acquaintances. I read and reread a lot of bios on famous chemists that year, although I would have been better off comprehending the properties of polymers instead.


M: Dude! I’m impressed you’re able to recall polymers!


D: Man! Niels Bohr’s history ought not happen anymore in the new millennium. Every high schooler in the United States must be given the opportunity to traverse upon the frontiers of higher education. Democratic socialist and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will make sure of that by making public colleges and universities tuition-free. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s people are misadvising her about how she ought to take on the progressive agenda introduced by Bernie Sanders in this presidential election cycle. She will be much better off entrusting the instinct that brought her to admitting prayer got her through the difficult eight years of her husband’s presidency, rather than what she said afterward at the Springfield, Illinois town hall edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews.


M: Dude! What did she say?


D: Man! She said this of toppling Assad, “I think that given the bloodshed he has spilled that would be a good outcome but Americans aren’t going to do it. That’s not us doing it. In Libya, you had a dictator who had American blood on his hands. Remember, Reagan tried to knock him off, as you recall, because you were working in the Congress. Missed, we tried. When he said he was going to track down his people and murder them, the Europeans and the Arabs came to us and said you’ve got to help us. Because what they feared is what we see in Syria. What we feared was an out-of-control civil war on their shores, right across the Mediterranean, right next to Egypt, right next to rest of the Middle East.” 


M: Dude! Hillary Rodham Clinton is hawkish like the Republicans and needs to open her eyes to the cold facts. We’ve got the severest regimes in the United States and they are the oligarchs and their vehicle for mobilizing terrorism across the world is the Supreme Court’s decision to disallow campaign finance reform and accountability in 2010’s Citizens United ruling. These oligarchs have encrypted the World Wide Web and created a dangerous network of indecipherable communication between themselves and their terrorist counterparts all over the world. Nixon and Reagan’s Administrations did a lot to entangle the Middle Eastern Muslim majorities across nations, including Assad’s father in Syria. Remember the Indus River Valley?


D: Man! Yes?


M: Dude! There’s a civilization that existed many centuries over there, the Indus Valley Civilization that had urban sanitation systems far more developed than the sewerage and drainage systems currently present in Afghanistan and Indo-Pak. It thrived because of the trade routes available to its people via what are now the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, and Mediterranean Sea. See the map in my hand?


D: Man! That’s Hillary Rodham Clinton’s professional memoir Hard Choices!


M: Dude! It’s got, hands down, the best map of the world today. You see all the bodies of water that I just identified? Well, they are no longer in complete service to the people they were naturally intended to nourish. Instead, they have been exploited by foreign enterprise.

D: Man! The Britishers and the Americans since the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? You know, I just remembered the argument I was trying to make with the history of Niels Bohr and, that is, the law of diminishing returns can be applied to oligarchies like the state the United States of America is in right now. Charles and David Koch’s father was flustered by their lack of basic intellect and carefully hid his lamebrain offspring with his money, much the same way Donald Trump learned to hide his lamebrain children with his money.


M: Dude! Hillary Rodham Clinton ought to know better than to ever utter the nonsense about not allowing Donald Trump’s kids a tuition-free public college or university education. Donald Trump himself doesn’t appear all that together upstairs at his rallies and concession/acceptance speeches. Clearly, the Ivy League is a two-fold wonderment, with the wealthy and the scholastic both intermingling. But, at the end of the day, everything works out with the system if the wealthy and scholastic are not given the opportunity to conspire and rid American society of the middle class and diminish everyday folks like us into an entirely new category altogether, that being the working poor.


D: Man! When you try to keep wealth in a family tree and the tree as blanched as possible, then you run into the law of diminishing returns. Your offspring and generations after will consecutively decline in overall intellectual capacities if there are no competitive open markets left in American education and capitalism. Competition and open markets breed diversity and a browning of societies in our age of globalization. This age of excess is going to trump us up so bad if the remaining middle class and the increasing working poor do not take action and turn out to vote for Bernie Sanders, the only person willing to feel the pain of the hungry and sick. In the end, isn’t that what being religious is all about? The capacity to love and empathize?


M: Dude! Peggy Noonan is against all aspects of globalization! And she writes for the Wall Street Journal! They’re all blanched! I’d like to see hip hop artist Killer Mike get a column in the WSJ! He's the most brilliant soul out there right now in popular culture. I disagree with Toni Morrison; Ta-Nehisi Coates is not comparable to James Baldwin. Coates has become too wrapped up in the intellectual swagger of literary life. Chris Hayes gave him too much of a reception than Killer Mike. I’d like to know more about Killer Mike’s grandmother’s activism that inspired the artist and the time she spent at the Tuskegee Institute. Chris Hayes must invite back Killer Mike and get the story of this remarkable grandmother and historian. Never prejudge anyone beforehand.


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