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In order to vote in America, you must now pass the new political intelligence test. If Arizona can question your citizenship, America can question your intelligence too.

Do you think the sun rotates around the earth?
Do you think Sarah Palin is presidential material?
Do you think Michelle Bachmann’s arguments make sense?
Do you think Glenn Beck’s presentation of history is reasonable?
Do you think Rand Paul’s ideas are practical workable politics?
Do you think Rush Limbaugh works for and speaks for the little people?
Do you think Barack Obama is a Marxist?
Do you think the earth is flat?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, you are truly unqualified to vote for anything let alone our president or our congress. Get a brain and come back to us when you found it.

“Citizens United for a more Intelligent voter - we won’t deport you, just send you back to school.”

Another in a series of good people.

I often use quotes or poem pieces from keen so I thought it time to share his worldview, a honest yet positive view.

View Here.

“A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.” Sam Keen

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j16/keen.asp

“The world over there is justifiable outrage about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We demonize BP for careless and greedy a practice that makes a mockery of their claim to be leaders in developing sources of clean energy. We are all too eager to make the big corporations pay a carbon tax to force them or adopt the discipline of cap and trade. We love the drug but hate the pushers. Alas, we are almost totally unwilling to shoulder our individual guilt for demanding cheap oil or to take any meaningful steps toward conservation. We demand the right to consume at any cost to the environment.”

http://samkeen.com/2010/07/whose-carbon-debt/

http://samkeen.com/

http://www.sojo.net/

“We first kill people with our minds, before we kill them with weapons. Whatever the conflict, the enemy is always the destroyer. We’re on God’s side; they’re barbaric. We’re good, they’re evil. War gives us a feeling of moral clarity that we lack at other times.” Sam Keen

by George Lakoff

“…What makes this of general, not personal, interest is that the scientific results are especially important for understanding what has been going wrong for the Obama administration and for liberals generally, and what has been going right for conservatives. I’m going to start out with some science, and get on to the politics after brief discussions of three important New York Times’ articles and what they mean scientifically.”

“…This is a grand liberal mistake. The highest value in the conservative moral system is the perpetuation and strengthening of the conservative moral system itself! This is not liberal materialism. Liberals decry it as “ideology,” and it is. But it is real; it has the structure of moral system, and it is physically part of the brains of both Washington conservatives and conservative populists. The conservative surge is not merely electoral. It is an idea surge. It is an attempt to spread conservatism via the spread of conservative populism. That is what the Tea Party movement is doing.”

Read here.

“Altemeyer believes about 25 percent of the adult population in the United States is solidly authoritarian (with that group mostly composed of followers, and a small percentage of potential leaders). It is in these ranks of some 70 million that we find the core of the McCain/Palin supporters. They are people who are, in Altemeyer’s words, are “so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds.”" Read Article.

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin

The birth of time and space occurred some 15 billion years ago.
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” Bill Clinton when asked about having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.
Dick Cheney, a four time draft dodger justified the Iraq invasion, claiming ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).’
If opinions are only opinions what are opinions.
There is only one Matriarchal society in the world, the Mosuo.
Thousands of Americans and it is estimated over a million Iraqis have died so far over these WMD.
Japan invaded the United States on December 7th, 1941. Today American flags adorn Japanese cars in America.
Free will is an essential myth, is it.
Do politicians ever wake up thinking about poverty in America or the world.
Recently I noticed a shirt made in Vietnam. Fifty six thousand Americans died in Vietnam fighting the spread of Communism.
A human would not be a human outside society.
Seinfeld was about nothing, John Cage once said he was saying nothing.
All industrial nations have universal healthcare except for the United States
‘Semper Fi’ stickers have been seen on Japanese and German cars.
The earth is four and one half billion years old.
What is a picture really worth. Robert Musil said pictures on the wall soon disappear.
The life span of elephants is 70 years.
Drawing came first then writing then reading so humans could understand what they drew what they wrote.
George W. Bush was AWOL during Vietnam.
Our language of nouns divorced from context, makes for easy classification but little thought.
John Kerry served in Vietnam; Dick Cheney obtained four deferments.
Music and art make us human.
Each weekend at Mass, we prayed for the conversion of Russia from Communism.
Evil is the reason hell is required.
During the week we hid under our school desks preparing for nuclear holocaust.
All religions have as a central tenet the Golden Rule - none follow it.
George Tenet claimed WMD were a slam dunk; he received the Freedom Medal.
There are a hundred billion synapses in the brain.
The earth does not require humans.
Is language essential to dreams, I think no.
All debate should be enthymematic; 98 percent of all Internet debate is ad hominem.
Gossip is universal, so is the blame game.
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Do American boys still work on cars.
Try to think without words.
Do dreams mean anything. Do nightmares.
The Iraq invasion has cost over 700 billion dollars and counting.
In just ten generations you have 2048 grandparents.
The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe.
Fossil fuels are the result of life death and time.
Does birth order matter.
Labels or categories isms are often only meaningful to the speaker.
Colin Powell provided complex testimony at the UN for WMD.
Many Americans believe in an America that never existed.
Are cynicism and conspiracy close relatives.
Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th, 1945. Approximately eleven more ovulations occurred before the egg dropped that became me.
My mother says my first love was a car, a 1955 Chevy.
Fiction often serves as conscience.
George W. Bush praised Michael Brown after Katrina struck New Orleans.
Movies mirror our dream world, Hollywood movies often mirror nightmares of individual revenge and widespread catastrophe.
L. Paul Bremer was awarded a Freedom medal. So was Rosa Parks.
Photo Postcards of lynchings in America from 1883 till 1960 were displayed in February, 2000 in New York.
There are over four million porn websites in the world.
Empathy is missing in so many Americans, why.
Evolution was never controversial in Asian; Asians never considered themselves top dog.
While Satan still lingers in the minds of people, Government has replaced him in America.
If you do nothing you cannot be criticized, if good happens great, if bad it is always those who acted.
What if there were no affirmative action.
Sarah Palin is the right wing Chauncey Gardiner.
I love a new book.
The Bo language is now extinct.
Ronald Reagan had the highest peace time tax increase in America history.
The earth has had two deep freezes that killed most life on earth.
Laughter is an evolutionary tool for it’s OK.
Does anyone diagram sentences or practice Palmer penmanship.
The Romans used roads for soldiers and communications.
What is the need and appeal of speed.
Eisenhower proposed the Interstate Highway system because of war.
The Black Plague killed 25 million people.
Mornings make me high, is that consciousness or dopamine.
In 1918 the Spanish Flu killed over twenty million.
How do we know we are thinking.
It is estimated that 110 million died in wars in the 20th century. Some place the estimate as high as 140 million.
The first victim of war is truth.
Propaganda regardless of truth works if it fits a worldview.
At one time the sun never set on the British empire.
In Asia silence is a demonstration of knowledge.
Communist Russia was an ally during the second world war.
There are 80 Wal-Marts in Communist China.
I am therefore I think.
The world didn’t end at the first millennium. Nor the second.
In 1999, manual apparatus sold well because of fear electricity would not work in the new millennium.
Jim Thorpe, an American Indian, was probably the greatest athlete of all time.
Among our closet relatives in the animal kingdom are the peaceful Bonobo.
The universe is flat. The end point of the universe is estimated but not known.
Humans date back 150,000 years.
Edit to Bible: money is the root of most evil, or much evil. Fear, insecurity are big factors too.
Schopenhauer said reading was thinking with the mind of another.
A British newspaper marveled at the number of stupid people in America after W won the second time. No testing to confirm ’stupid’ was conducted.
Fascism is of the right, Communism of the left, Dictatorship personal.
Hitler was a Catholic, so was Timothy McVeigh, so is Antonin Scalia.
A child dies of preventable causes every 15 seconds in the world.
Is the primitive mind the source of conspiracy thinking.
The time circumstances and accomplishments make Franklin Delano Roosevelt our greatest president.
Jonas Salk took no profit from his team’s development of the Polio vaccine.
Wittgenstein said if all science problems were solved it would not touch any of life’s problems.
Between 2003 and 2007 the profits of the nation’s largest medical insurers rose 170.2 percent to $12.6 billion.
Experts and throwing darts are equally reliable prognosticators.
America ranks 37th in the world in healthcare, right next to Costa Rica.
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder, is ugliness.
In geologic time, human history is a few seconds, our life less.
If Think Tanks are only about partisan and corporate ideology, why are they called think tanks.
Coffee sex books and the open road all I need.
The richest 1 percent in America saw their wealth triple from 1980 to 2006. The bottom 90% went down 20 percent.
If free will exists how do we justify our politics in a world of poverty and disease.
Sixty percent of U.S. corporations failed to pay any federal taxes from 1996 through 2000.
Liberalism and conservatism equiponderate Tao.
Corporate tax amounted to just 7.4 percent of total federal tax revenue in 2003.
The sun is middle age in sun time and should burn out in roughly another 5 billion years.
I had a much stronger fantasy life young.
The war on drugs was started in 1969 and is still in progress.
Tobacco kills approximately 400,000 people each year. Alcohol about 80,000, illegal drugs kills only a few thousand.
Beckett wrote I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
The war on terrorism, a noun, started during the Bush administration.
I do not understand cults, nor the Tea Party.
Only two chromosomes separate us from the great apes.
Has the debate over nature versus nurture been resolved.
Combined taxes consume 21 percent of the poor person’s earnings, but only 7 percent of the earnings of the rich.
Each breath is a million billion billion atoms of oxygen.
I find honest people interesting but so very rare.
If all conceptions are children, when and where do they grow up.
Do birds think as they fly south, then north.
Somethings are givens, our parents.
Do animals have nightmares.
Sartre thought other people were hell.
The majority of drug offenders are white, but blacks comprise the great majority of drug offenders sent to prison.
Humans are distinct from animals because we know we are animals.
Why do no religions preach being good.
Being guillotined was for the privileged during the religious heresies. Being burned alive for the common people. People arrived early at both for a good view.
What part of ourselves do we see in our children.
Wal-mart insures its workers and designates the corporation the beneficiary.
The individual with inherent rights was created in the 18th century, but suffrage didn’t happen till the 20th.
Wittgenstein thought all problems, problems of language.
Maybe life on earth is a first draft or one of many.
When asked a stupid question Obama smiles nicely, I cannot do that.
Language is the reason we know that we know.
It could be said that Indulgences brought down the Holy Roman Empire.
If all work is outsourced how will we know. Suppose robots do the rest.
Is America the first working plutocracy.
There are approximately 3.5 million homeless in America.
If actions are additive, how can we ever tell if any action is the right action.
Neither marriage nor God is mentioned in the US Constitution.
Consider how much money corporations could funnel back into the community if they outsourced executives and their boards.
Kafka said the meaning of life is death.
Money is worshipped most in America, next comes sport.
Will humankind ever attain immortality on earth.
Which would you choose, great beauty, intelligence or long life.
Sometimes the best you can do is live long.
In the end it is what we value that creates complexity.
I am a liberal, a progressive, a democratic socialist, an economic democrat, a radical conservative, a social democrat, an economic humanist, wrote Martin Gardner, me too.
It is the journey that matters.
I’ll go on….

What conclusion can one come to after Obama won Massachusetts by 26% and now Brown wins. Their values and policies are diametrically opposed. So then what do independents want? What motivates their vote? What does it say when voting changes so quickly and is no longer about issues and values?

Obama ran on a retreat from hubris of imperialism, healthcare for all, improvements for the middle and working class, and change. Brown is opposed to healthcare for all, and for that matter opposed to all of the above. Brown is pro all the policies that since Reagan have diminished the middle class in America. And yet these negative attitudes and values seem to always win when money enters the picture. The Bible was right.

Does the reactionary propaganda coming from certain conservative supported media have so strong an effect that people, independents in this case, actually believe America is moving too far left? And what does ‘left’ mean. Given our healthcare is ranked 37th in the world, you’d think Americans would want improvement. We used to consider our nation exceptional, today we are happy with mediocre.

Americans will vote for war, vote to remove the rights of gays, vote to reduce taxes as our infrastructure collapses, so really maybe independents represent a strain of thought that simply reverses the golden rule. A ‘I got mine’ you get yours attitude. The irony of all this is the last presidency and the republican ascendancy failed America. The 2008 election demonstrated that so well and yet….

So what is it independents want? We know there are some who will always vote republican and some democratic, but now we have a group that clearly has no idea what it wants. Mention the old fashioned American value of making all of America great but it will cost you - whether true or not - and you’ll lose. And so it goes….

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Winston Churchill