Be More than a Mindless Drone

Today is Valentine’s Day, which makes me think of flowers. Flowers remind me of bees. Well, not really; this is just a cheesy segue to my subject. We live in a nation of drones, and maybe that’s the way humans have always been: mostly working, going to school, doing their thing, and not really thinking very much, at least not about anything very important. Still, I am inclined to think it has become worse, as perhaps it always does when life seems safe and good. I also think American education discourages thinking, and media and entertainment, which have become mind-numbing, turn brains toward passivity. So, guess where politics functions best and to what kind of participant?

As for me, I am an American. I am not a hyphenated anything, and I don’t vote for candidates because they are hyphenated. A person who votes for a candidate because they are the same race or heritage seems to assume that they will represent them. Those who seek power, from a single community of votes, thinks that way, and that’s what the multicultural bigots want you to think; but most of them surely don’t think that way. Their interest is power; rarely, if ever, is it the true welfare of the voters to whom they appeal.

For example, those who play the African-American race card support candidates like Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson, but they despise Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice, hate Condelesa Rice, our Secretary of State, and weren’t that crazy about Colin Powell. No, they don’t support leaders simply because they have dark skin or had ancestors who were slaves. Is there another, less visible criteria? There is! They back candidates and want you to back candidates, who will advance their agenda. They may sound pro-African-American, but they are really for their own power and ideology. Which was the party of Lincoln? Which was really the party of civil rights? Which party’s philosophy has made life better for everyone and opened up opportunities for prosperity and success for blacks? Which has put more blacks into positions of power? Compare the Clinton and Bush administrations, and it is obvious!

Those who want you to vote for their African-American candidates because they are African-American won’t vote for African-Americans in other parties. It’s not about their race; it’s about their ideology, their political beliefs, and about creating a perception that assures them votes and power. How else could Bill Clinton claim to be the “

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