{Pursuant to the readers of Find a Hill and DIE on It...} I’ve drafted politically charged communiques before. I know how responses go. They’re politically charged. And in anticipation to them, I’d like to relate the following:
A. I am not, personally, a proponent of Pro Life, and
B. I am not so tone-deaf to business that a Green agenda should not be carefully engineered so’s not to suppress enterprise willy nilly to the hymns of Kumbaya.
I won’t expand why on here. If you’d like to see expansion on these points, feel free to comment. The reason I picked them is that they’re both wedge issues for either major party and not the core issue which both parties share more in common than they ever realize i.e. the budget. Most Republicans are poor Republicans. Their interests are advanced with a more progressive national view. Most Democrats are poor Democrats. Their interests are also advanced by a more progressive national view. The conservative views, advanced by the wealthy, are – apart from being far better funded – the views also antithetical to a progressive standard. They suppress those closer to the poverty line.
Yet so many focus on the wedge issues so that those without identical recourse are provoked and distracted by them, AS DESIGNED BY THEIR WEALTHY DRAFTERS. If you aren’t one of those drafters ask: Are you finding yourself more moved by Green issues than budgetary issues? Are you finding yourself more moved by Pro-Life issues than budgetary issues? Perhaps gun reform issues? Mayhap Black Lives Matter issues? I’m not suggesting these aren’t important issues. I’m suggesting they are WEDGE issues designed to hoodwink you away from the most premier issue: The budget. It is the one issue no politician, whatever their stripe or color, disputes as the most important issue they face during a political cycle.
I could have reached into a grab bag and picked any number of issues, and they would have likewise been subject to someone’s strident critique. What I was really picking out of that grab bag was Republican Issue X and Democrat Issue Y. I sought to make no hay out of either/or. Not here. Because the main point I was driving at (and am still driving at) is our politicians have found:
A. A way to not take political heat for the votes they cast or the executive orders they draft.
B. A way to enrich their campaign finance coffers at your expense. Uniform on either side of the aisle.
Wedge issues are often important issues and I don’t mean to suggest otherwise. That having been said you are not a serious person with a serious opinion if you place those issues over the issue with greatest preponderance. And further, you are not a serious person if you don’t hold your elected figures with serious repercussions for the actions or omissions of them.