Lines of guilt
I’ve been doing a lot of posting on various online forums, blogs, opinion pieces etc. Joining in on the war of words as it were. Here is a response I gave to somebody’s rant about how it is all the ‘Chrony Capitilists’ fault that we are in this big mess.
When trying to diagnose the causes of our pain, it is important to trace the lines of guilt back to its source, instead of stopping at the symptoms. Businesses/corporations/banks are not the source of our problems.
Businesses can only buy political favors from politicians if those favors are for sell in the first place, thus the first line of guilt traces back from businesses to politicians.
Politicians are in the business of buying and selling favors because we the people have elected them to do so. We all want our politicians to promote, pay for, subsidize, or monopolize our favorite causes. Thus the second line of guilt traces back from the politicians to those of us who elected them.
You notice in all of our tea partying, occupying or bickering, nobody is arguing that government get out of the favoring business. Instead we are complaining that all the money is going to favor causes we don’t agree with and not to the causes we support.
Once we decided to get our government in the game of handing out favors, we should’ve realized we ran the risk of somebody else beating us to those favors.
It’s like a coach who decides to pay off the ref to win the game complaining of corruption when he finds out the opposing coach paid more.
There is no hope of solving the problems we are facing politically until all of us are willing to give up our favors.
