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Talking Politics With Twin Baby Prophets

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© Arthur Levine 2007

Words 560

Keywords: Baby Prophets, Twins, Freedom, America First, Politics

Darling and Delicious, the twin baby prophets of Sarhara and her husband the prophet Johnny Oops, had a secret that they shared. Although they were only three months old, because they had genius genes, they had the minds of grown up women, and they regularly argued over politics telepathically. The trouble is that Darling was a republican, and Delicious was a democrat. They argued incessantly over conservative verses liberal points of view. Please keep in mind that their views were not those of normally mature women, but these genius young ladies were determined to solve the major political problems of the United States.

Darling: “We have got to do something about our long term deficit. We have got to balance the budget. Spending is going wild.

Delicious: That’s your fault. You republicans are supposed to be the ones who control the budget and are tough on spending.

Darling: We can’t help it. This war is costing a fortune

Delicious: Who started the war to begin with? I told you it’s your fault.

Darling: Protecting our people from terrorism is more important than balancing the budget.

Delicious: Now your talking like a democrat. We have to spend to protect our people. They are entitled. That’s what’s important.

Darling: It’s your damn entitlements that got us in trouble in the first place. Now see what you’ve done.

Delicious: We are going to have to cut back on foreign spending and the war to save the dollar and protect our economy.

Darling: Now look at who is talking about protectionism. I thought you are supposed to protect us against other countries, not ourselves.

Delicious: That’s not the kind of free market thinking we need. The whole world wants to be our trading partner.

Darling: Then why don’t they trade with us fairly?

Delicious: What do you want – a perfect world?

Darling: This whole discussion strikes me as a classic case of role reversal. What ever are we going to do?

Delicious: We may have to form a third party.

Darling: That would be impossible. We don’t agree on anything.

Delicious. That’s perfect, then we will fit right into the political landscape of the United States.

Darling: I guess when our forefathers fought for individual freedom they did mean it literally.

Delicious: That’s what so precious about our democracy, Darling. Let’s never forget it.

Darling: For once I agree with you, Delicious, but don’t let anyone know. They will start to think we republicans are becoming too liberal, too democratic, and God forbid, too weak.

Darling: As long as we both agree that it’s America first, I am happy to keep your secret.

Delicious: That’s okay, that’s a secret you can tell everyone about.

Darling: I think we both should tell everyone it’s America first as soon as we find our voices, and learn how to speak. This growing up thing can be hell. Thank goodness that in our case it is happening quicker than for most.

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Ways to Positively Impact Other People – Politics and Social Activism

Another contribution that can outlive you is your role in politics and social activism. Leadership is needed in our world now as never before.

Gandhi became immortal through guiding India to freedom from British rule.

Churchill became immortal for inspiring the British people to courage during World War II.

Martin Luther King made his name in the non-violent fight for civil rights.

What causes will you champion? It is no longer enough for us to leave the mantel of leadership in our societies to others.

People like Al Gore have shown that we can sometimes have great influence by merely calling people’s attention to a problem in need of solution.

Nelson Mandela showed us moral courage in the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Whether your leadership role is formal or informal, we are all called to politics in one form or another, for politics determines the policies by which our nations and our world will be led. And our participation or apathy will outlive us in determining what kind of a world we leave behind for our children.

Living a life that will outlive you means that you must leave something behind that will have some form of societal impact.

It means doing something, creating something, and sharing something that inspires, enables, liberates, and stimulates other people to move to a better place.

This can be done on a small or large scale. It can impact the lives of a few people or the lives of millions, if not billions, of people. It may influence a family, a community, a company, a country, or the world.

You can choose to do it through sharing profound knowledge and philosophy, through generating works of art, through creating organizations of enduring value, or through political activity and the championing of worthy causes.

Each will outlive you. Each can change history, whether for a few people or for many.

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Power and Politics

Many of the leaders in our society are guided by unhealthy

intentions. Instead of seeking to serve the people and heal

our nation’s ills, their actions and decisions are primarily

motivated by their desire for power. Many of the people

running our country are run by their addictions to approval,

sex, power and control. Unfortunately, few truly healthy

individuals want to submit themselves to the necessary

abuses inherent to our political races – the verbal abuse

both given and received, the huge amounts of money spent,

the integrity sacrificed through the concessions, lies and

manipulations offered in order to win. Our system of

electing our officials is so corrupt that there is little

possibility of attracting a person with a strong, personally

responsible, loving inner adult self. This is not to say that

none of our elected representatives are honest and caring.

Some are certainly motivated by positive intentions but,

unfortunately, they constitute a minority.

There is no training required in personal responsibility to

run for office. Our leaders are not required to heal their

dysfunctional aspects in order to become honest and

trustworthy people. The prerequisites for political positions

mostly include having enough money, enough powerful

people behind the scenes, being male, and being white.

Our political arena is designed to attract wounded people who

need approval and power in order to feel worthy and validated.

Obviously, such a person, with little or no internally derived

sense of self-worth and integrity, is very susceptible to

corruption. As the adage says: “Power corrupts and absolute

power corrupts absolutely.” Power corrupts when a person

is motivated by his or her desire for power over others, and

few people have accomplished enough inner healing to

transcend the desire for control over others.

A healthy person in office who is more concerned with serving

the people than with getting re-elected could accomplish a

great deal. Such a person was depicted in the movie Dave.

In this film the actual president is in a coma and the White

House officials, seeking to conceal the truth from the public

so they can maintain control, put a look-alike into the

president’s seat. Dave, however, is a man of heart, and rather

than allowing himself to be controlled he sets about making

necessary changes – cutting money where it is not needed

and allocating it into more crucial avenues, like child care

and the creation of jobs. He even takes responsibility for the

corruption of the actual president and gracefully “dies” as

the actual president is dying so the vice-president, a man

of great integrity who was maligned by the power structure,

could take over in his rightful place. The movie is, of course,

a fantasy. Sadly, we would never elect a man of such

integrity – a straightforward, honest, caring, and financially

middle-class man like Dave. Our election process does

not allow for this.

Revamping our election process would give people like Dave an

opportunity to run for office. We desperately need people who

care more for the common good than for their own popularity.

We need brilliant, creative, honest and caring people to lead

our country, but this will never happen with our present election

system. We have incredible talent in this great country of ours,

talent that could eliminate hunger and homelessness, and heal

the internal wounds that create health problems, drug abuse,

racism, violence and crime. But this talent is rarely tapped

because running our country has been based on the earthly

values of greed and power over others rather than the spiritual

values of honesty, compassion and caring.

Unfortunately, neither our government nor most big businesses

are based on the spiritual principles of compassion and caring

about the common good. I have no doubt that if our government

was based on spiritual principles we would not have the hunger,

homelessness, crime, health problems, and drug abuse that are

endemic to our modern society.

Article written by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

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Sylk Magazine: Art, Politics and Sex

Sylk Magazine is a unique online publication featuring a mix of sociopolitical commentary, humor and exclusive model pictorials. Deviating from the standard men’s magazine fare Sylk is founded on the three pillars of society, Art, Politics and Sex!

Instead of regurgitating the same celebrity news and AP headlines Sylk offers up fresh, original and cutting edge content. Addressing environmental and political topics from a broader perspective Sylk’s writers not only inform but encourage the reader to view current events from a historical and social context.

Having no aversion to controversy Sylk Magazine boldly tackles political, religious and social issues, from the environment to racism, that most mainstream publications avoid like a 14th century nobleman avoiding a leper. But in all this Sylk does not take itself too seriously either, maintaining that you can be informed, make a difference in the world and have fun doing it.

But when you go to www.sylkmagazine.com the first thing you notice is not necessarily biting editorial. At the center of Sylk Magazine are the Sylk Girls, models actually selected as much for their brains as their bodies. To bring readers fresh faces and give new models a place to be seen Sylk features girls you may have never heard of before but you won’t be able to forget.

Raw, sexy, rebellious, irreverent and profound; SylkMagazine.com is a welcome breath of fresh air in the methane fields of today’s pop culture media.

Politics of Destruction

It seems that NONE are exempt. If you candidate is Obama trash Hillary. If your candidate is Hillary smear Obama. If your candidate is McCain disparage him. If your candidate didn’t make it to the final round, trash them all (can you say El Rusbo and his campaign of chaos?). What is productive in destructive-chaotic politics. What ever happened to supporting your candidate in a positive way and laying off all the anger rhetoric?

And anyone who is associated with a candidate gets trashed as well- some deserving (can you say Jeremiah Wright?), and some not (can you say Bill Richardson?).

Hillary and team has been going after the endorsement of Bill Richardson for what it might mean to the Hispanic vote in America. But, Bill came out in favor of Obama today so what does Penn (Hillary promoter) have to say? Richardson’s endorsement means nothing, Bill is history! The state of our nation politically speaking is not good at all!

At the top of the trash the oppositon is none other than that “Great American”- Sean Hannity!

How is it that we now define “great Americans” as those who peddle in destructive politics? I know he’s upset that a die-hard conserevative didn’t make it. I know he’s disappointed that Mitt Romeny didn’t make it- so was I. But are those reasons to make politics so personal and damaging that few want to enter the fray for fear of the name-calling and innuendo?

In an Op-Ed article headlined “The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud,” Krauthammer acknowledges that Obama condemned Rev. Wright’s inflammatory remarks as “wrong and divisive” — without specifying the remarks he was referring to. So? So that’s reason to dump everything in the laudry room in his lap. If the Democrats don’t step in and stop the slaughter that’s going on amongst themselves, there wont’ be anough meat on the bones of Obama to give McCain any sort of run for his money.

As an article in the Politico said, “One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning. Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.”

Ah, but this is the year to nail anyone and everyone who isn’t with you! Maybe this will be the year that the politics of destruction ends. Probably not!

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Politics- is it Good at All

Politics- a word detested by most of the common people. To an ordinary person, politics is a synonym to corruption, misuse of power, money laundering and other malpractices. Politics has earned such a bad name for itself everywhere, that even the most honest political leader is looked upon with suspicion. Elections come and go. Majority of the populace does not bother to vote. They know, once elected a candidate forgets his electorate and runs after money and power. But these elected leaders can play havoc or bring peace and prosperity in the society. It depends on both their decisions and participation of people. It is true that political decisions and activities affect all aspects of people’s lives. But is it really unfortunate?

Right from start of elections, candidates go on talking glibly about their plans to work for the benefit of all. They give speeches, hold rallies, fund raisers and waste precious money and time- just for power. It’s after they are elected, their ambiguous talk is exposed. Elected representatives often get portfolios for which they are totally unqualified. Imagine an illiterate politician becoming a minister for education. Hard to believe but is commonplace in many backward countries. Such a man will be totally incompetent for office and may end up spoiling the education system. The common man won’t be able to do a thing except watching promising careers and dreams fade away into oblivion.

It’s nothing new that money gets decisions reversed. Bribe more than your adversaries and the decision or policy will be in your favour. Cigarette and liquor companies with backing of billions of dollars put public health on the path of deterioration. The governments do nothing. This was brought to light after so many years when a big tobacco companies were ordered by the American courts to dole out billions of dollars to people suffering from diseases acquired by smoking. Construction companies cut off trees in hundreds and thousands to build new towers and buildings. All with no objections from the government. The environment suffers.

In most cases common people get most affected while not even being fully aware of the reasons. Thats the whole irony of it. Most decisions and policies get formed without the peoples say. They are helpless watchers of the whole game.

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