Guiltiers; you really have to love them, for their own ignorance of their role in forming historically lasting public policy. We shouldn’t be afraid of engaging with guiltiers as they offer unprecedented access to a segment of society otherwise not accessible. This should be a welcomed entrance in public discourse, because it offers an opportunity to disclose well-formulated arguments, which nullify the most important reasons for opponent dissent.
When we are forced to validate our positions over and over again, we eventually become experts in the very subjects we have been questioned to argue, as we are more likely to seek and find more reliable data to support and solidify our positions.
This opportunity to disclose to an audience that was before unattainable, presents us a unique opportunity that should not be dismissed easily. We now have the opportunity to present what can eventually become a mountain of relevant material that serves to reinforce our position while simultaneously nullifying theirs. We have a wealth of information, from some very intelligent individuals on this sight, which should be used to assist in whatever information we may need to make a lasting impression on guiltiers that have the audacity to think they have a chance with this informed group. What’s more; their positions are then shown, to their audience as well as our own, to be the logical fallacy they in fact are. So, Guilters actually play an unknowingly important role in formulating good public policy.
The next time, don’t simply dismiss a guiltier, because it may in fact send a message that reinforces their own message to their followers. We know their positions are wrong, so instead of reacting in a way that may be misinterpreted as dismissive or fearful of being challenged, send the correct one by reintroducing past successful arguments and put the truth back into the minds of the audience at hand. Present facts that substantiate your position; always assume your audience had never heard your side of the argument before, because more-than likely, they never have. A guiltier; practices in deceit, misinformation and plain ole ignorance, so take this unprecedented opportunity to expose them for the fraud they are, while fortifying and substantiating your own position. If nothing else, its good practice for arguing your case with friends and colleagues.
Unless a Guiltier practices in prejudice or hate, I tend to allow them to make their comments on my own threads, because it forces me to re-evaluate my position and strengthen my own arguments. Those who then read my blogs and comments can then come away more confident that my blog has actually made them better prepared to present and argue their position, knowing that they are aware of the different questions that may be thrown their way, by friends and colleagues and more able to argue them more successfully. I want my blogs to be informative. I want people to feel more intelligent about the world that surrounds them.
Many people like guiltiers, try to change history; taking advantage of many who are so over worked and so inundated with information that they compartmentalize their memories into their long-term and short-term memory banks. So, there have been groups who have historically taken advantage of this real aspect in many American lives to change the facts of history in order to shape public policy. U.S. Environmental Policy was one of the first success stories in recognizing this and coming up with a way in preventing this from happening.
Early on, pro-environment groups came up with a very pro-active way of making sure that whenever an environmental catastrophe took place, they would have a group already in place to define to the media exactly what occurred. No more spin from company loyalist, who would downplay the catastrophe that had taken place. During the January 28, 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill catastrophe < http://www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~dhardy/1969_Santa_Barbara_Oil_Spill/Home.html >, due to a crack in a Unocal oil rig five miles off the coast of Santa Barbara. It was the worst oil spill in US history, which gave birth to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) on December 3, 1970. What made this possible is the diligence of environmental groups, which had people on the ground who quickly defined the impact the 1969 Oil Spill had on coastal animals, people who frequented the 30-miles of California Coastal Beaches, hundreds of miles in the ocean and its inhabitants, and kept this in the minds of millions of viewers, by continually inundating the news with images of wildlife dying because of this man-made disaster.
Unocal Executives were unable to downplay the disaster, thereby defining the disaster as less than it actually was. It is this act, in the early moments of a defining moment that history is correctly defined or altered by taking advantage of a large segment of society that lacks the resources or time to really find the truth. Ignorance and knowledge are the key elements in any argument. For those on the side of the truth, knowledge is essential in proving the necessity of a public policy change to protect the environment and the public from such a disaster happening again and for those on the side of covering up the truth, ignorance is equally essential in order to continue the current failed public policy.
This is why many businesses have a common cause in flooding congressional offices with lobbyist for corporations, who routinely hand out millions of dollars in checks for representatives, removed from their congressional districts, who are more vulnerable to bribes and corporate demands. This is the main reason today we see a changing definition of what defines a small business. The past General Election Debates involved the taxing of small business. Businesses were successful in covertly changing the definition to include multi-million and in some cases multi-billion dollar Corporations in that definition of “small business” by lobbying enough of our elected congressional representatives to redefine small business as any corporation with 500 or less employees, when in-fact the average person would think a small business would be 100 or less employees or a $1,000,000.00 per year operating budget. So, now when a candidate says he or she will make a campaign promise of no taxes for small businesses that scope becomes a lot larger than the average American would imagine. Again, ignorance is essential to any argument based on covering up the truth. So, in this case, a corporatist (one who places the interest of business over the interest of people) may in-fact be mistaken for one who has the people’s interest first.
The Tea Party is another group, which is on the side of covering up the truth. This is actually an extreme arm of the Republican Party, but claims to be anti-government and anti-Republican and Democrat. The fact is, every democracy in the entire world, with the exception of the United States has some form of a parliamentarian democracy, which has a multi-party system as opposed to the two-party system we have in the United States. Basically in these countries, it comes down to two or three major parties, with everyone vying for the next large party’s support to gain the most seats. Another component of a parliamentarian type of democracy is the people’s power to have a no-confidence vote and vote everyone out o power should they not be performing as they had advertised. The inactions of the U.S. Republican Party, with their majority in the House of Representatives would have resulted in the entire Party being voted out of office for a failure to perform their elected duties in impeding any congressional actions. Again, ignorance is the essential element in the Republican Party’s efforts to convince the American People that government is bad and ineffectual, so we must shrink government. They say government is the reason for our financial problems and so we must shrink government. They say Social Security is an entitlement program so we must eliminate Social Security; a government program. Again, ignorance is essential in winning this argument.
The facts are clear, if anyone bothers to do a little research and get informed. Every Democratic President in recent history, with the exception of President Obama has actually decreased the federal deficit. Republican President, Ronald Reagan got elected into office by telling the American People the debt was out of control < http://zfacts.com/p/318.html >, when in fact it was not until he got into office. During Regan’s time in office, I was serving in the US Marines. When I got out of the Marines, where I was an Aircraft Electrical Systems Technician, I had high hopes of landing a job with the Boeing Company, which was based in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. What I found was a nation in a deep recession and no jobs in sight. I finally found a job building power supplies for a company in Huntington (Long Island), New York called Lambda Electronics. President Reagan took advantage of the ignorance of the American People and then had the US Congress in his pocket to change what was actually there to fit his definition of deficit. This is not a new phenomenon, so once people begin to accept this, they will then seek out the truth and become less gullible to lies, by becoming more informed of the truth.
A quick note
President Obama’s Administration has been the lone Democratic Administration to decrease the federal deficit because of being in the unenviable position of being the first Democratic Administration in recent history to have a Republican House in power at the time of his presidency. Any political science major would be quick to explain that the House of Representatives are the “purse strings” of the U.S. Federal Government. We have three branches; The Executive (The President), the Judiciary (The Supreme Court) and Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). Any “bill” (law) must begin its journey in the House of Representatives, then if passed will continue on into the Senate, once passing muster there, it will take it’s final journey to the President.
It is unconstitutional to change what has been argued and agreed upon in Congress before signing a bill into law, but that is exactly what Republican President Bush did in this practice twice as many times as all previous presidents combined. This is largely the reason so many bills were enacted that favored Republican ideology when Democrats were in control of the House. Many Americans are unaware of this, which the Republican Party uses to their advantage, in blaming the Democrat for a lot of the financial downturns on their watch. The House of representative is currently used by the Republican Party as a barrier to any significant legislation getting out for the President to sign. Republicans can simply stall any Bill in the House, which they control, giving the American people the impression that government is ineffectual, That is, until they come back into power, and then things will miraculously turn around. The problem with Democrats is they feel it beneath them to mislead the American people, when Republicans have no problem in doing. A more informed public will nullify these efforts to deceive them, resulting in Democrats being vindicated when the truth is disclosed.
President Bush inherited a budget surplus from a Democratic President, but because the Republican Party was so successful in demonizing the entire Democratic Party for what President Clinton did in his private life, America was blinded by the “moral” debate and believed every lie the Republican Party told to get elected. Then, the Republican Party ran a campaign based on fear and began an argument on which Party historically was better at protecting Americans. President Regan with his words to Gorbechev to tear down the “Wall” in East Germany, which he received credit for, even though the “Wall” came down at the end of 1989, when he had long since been out of office and the truth was the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse because of their heavy investments in the “Arms Race” with the United States. This fact and not the fact that Reagan told him to tear down that wall, was the reason for the Soviet Union disengagement with East German and subsequent other Eastern Bloc counties. The lies that took hold because of the ignorance of the American people enabled the Republican Party to gain power and corrupt many segments of our federal government.
The truth could have prevented the US from an “Arms Influx” that can easily be seen as a culprit, along with other Republican Party policies, e.g. deregulation in the banking industry, deregulation in the housing industry, no-bid contracts and complete sovereignty for contractors in Iraq that contributed to Geneva Convention human rights abuses and civilian employee abuses, which were blamed on low-level soldiers who were following the orders of their civilian contractors, etc, etc, etc. This is what significantly contributed to the financial situation in the United States and because of the ignorance of the American People in allowing a renewing of the same tax-welfare programs for the wealthy and big-business will enable the continuation of the financial bleeding of the United States and its allies until we eventually descend into another American-Revolution. Again, ignorance will be the catalyst, as it has always been, for so many arguments being won by those who practice to deceive, but if we recognize this as an opportunity to tell the truth, based on facts to support the truth; based on historical facts to support the truth, then we have a very rare opportunity to make good prevail.
It may have looked like I have strayed from my topic of guiltiers and opportunity, but they are one in the same. They have always been one in the same, only the latter is an example when lies affect more than one and escalate to have an effect on a much grander scale, because lies always grow into something much bigger. The truth has a way of doing the opposite. The truth is like a good referee, if they are working correctly, they don’t interfere with the game, or life…they simply allow for a very good experience by all.
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