Blame is a Solution in What Universe?
Do you ever wonder why no one in the media asks politicians how they know what they’re talking about? There are times when I hear politicians say things that are just plain BS. But I never hear a journalist ask them, “Okay, how do you know that?” I see little difference between what blather politicians spew and what can be found on Facebook. For example, look at Alex Jones. Alex is not a politician, but he has claimed for years that the murder of little children in their classrooms at Sandy Hook was not true. Who demanded he produce proof or stand down? Would it not make sense to just ask the guy? I know Rudy was asked a number of times about the election fraud he claimed, but where was his proof? The same as Big Don. He claimed the election was stolen, but he never offered any proof. Who would believe such a fairy tale without ironclad proof? More to the point, why would they believe such a fairy tale without proof?
When I hear terms like “the weaponization of federal law enforcement” I have to wonder what proof exists for such a claim. I get that such a statement is to make the Dark Lord look better than he actually does, but that guy is a stone-cold loser. Even though he does have a lot of followers, that does not mean that he represents a sure path to victory for the GOP. It’s the same thing with the investigation into Dr Fauci. Here’s a man who has spent his entire adult life working to protect the population from such threats as Ebola, HIV/AIDS and COVID. But are these same Congressional yahoos investigating more than a million deaths due to inaccurate claims about cures for COVID? Are they investigating why so many people lost their lives to COVID after there was a vaccine? No, they are not. They’d prefer to claim that the vaccine has some kind of microchip to track where people are and what those people are doing. That makes no sense at all. No one wants to know where you are or what you are doing. We have Facebook for that and we rarely give a hoot about where you are or what you’re eating when you post that data.
It could be easy to get lost in the sauce here. The Republicans are pretty verbose about their supposed wrong-righting. But so are the Democrats. The only notable difference is what each side complains about and then addresses. The Republicans are all about finding something wrong with American society so they can fix this imagined problem with corporate subsidy. The Democrats try to fix problems that people have by trying to be responsible for their lives. One is no better than the other in reality, but they both have their agendas which they follow. In other words, both sides know which side of their bread is buttered. The Republicans really may not care about people because their bread is buttered by big business. Democrats may not care about big business because their bread is buttered by people with families, car payments and mortgages on their homes. Both sides represent important parts of the society, but let’s be honest, corporations are doing lots better than people who work for those corporations. Oil companies made profits in the billion dollar range last year, but who paid for those profits were people who work for a living. A whopping 44% of petroleum production is consumed by automobiles¹. The consumption of fuel for transportation in the global market will be up 56% by 204⁰². Is it any wonder that Republican politicians tend toward supporting the fossil fuel industry and shy away from global warming as an issue? Those concepts apply to industry across the board as far as right leaning politicians are concerned. You won’t hear that bunch worrying about the living conditions in Central America as a contributing factor to increasing immigration. No, they just want to be in control of those folks and use them as needed in industry. The Left tends toward alleviating the causes for people to uproot their families and travel by any means necessary to try for a better life in the US.
The Japanese have a proverb. “Fix the problem, not the blame.” In other words if you fix the problem, then no one gets blamed. But not even the Japanese can fix a problem which is not recognized as a problem. Nor can anyone fix a problem which does not exist. For example, no one can fix the problem of the election being stolen because that is not a problem. What is a problem is that someone insisted that the election must have been stolen because they wanted to fix the election. Despite the fix being in place the other side won anyway. Don’t you just hate when that happens?
It appears that because no one could access that common horse sense that once was so necessary for life in this democracy, we have a continuing problem. We have people on the right attacking people whom they are calling “Libs.” We have people on the left attacking people whom they call “fascists.” The problem isn’t the name calling, that’s just childishly silly. The problem is that neither side wants to find a way to fix problems, so they fix blame instead. Therefore, we have problems such as gun violence, endemic racism, rampant immigration and all manner of hate speech. I can’t help but think there has to be a better way to address these issues than blaming another “side” for the problems. Blame will never solve a problem. Blame will make the problem worse, and but it damned sure will not solve anything at all.
If we do not blame the other side for a problem, then how do we fix a problem? One thing that is absolutely necessary to fix any problem is to identify what it actually is. Take the immigration problem for a moment. There is no “open border” along the frontier between Mexico and the United States. There are certainly hundreds if not thousands of people who want to cross that border and there is a way to cross it. But crossing it will not solve the actual problem the people who cross actually have. Their problem is back in the country of their origin. Some try to cross for personal ambition, no doubt. Some cross because it is safer here than where they originated. Some cross to be with family who are already here. And I’m sure some cross to escape problems back home.
But it is not because Dark Brandon has opened a set of imaginary floodgates. I think it would be obvious to anyone with any common sense at all, that no one who packs up and tries to move to another country is doing so because he wants a free meal. That has never been the case with any wave of immigrants in the history of the United States. That makes no sense at all. People have pride in what they do and in what they bring to the table. But who could see such a reality when that person is trying to blame the other side for a non-existent problem? Can’t be done, huh? Not unless you just have to blame someone because you’re too lazy to look to fix the problem….
References
1. EIA: world energy consumption to grow 56% 2010–2040, CO2 up 46%; use of liquid fuels in transportation up 38%. (2013, July 25). Green Car Congress. Retrieved February 6, 2023, from https://www.greencarcongress.com/2013/07/iea-20130725.html
2. Use of oil — U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2022, July 1). EIA. Retrieved February 6, 2023, from https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/use-of-oil.php
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