Vote for REAL Change: Vote Republican

People sometimes ask me what a person with my background in organizing the counterculture and alternative/cutting edge revolutionaries, is doing running for office as a Republican, but see quickly, the logic of my response, “That in Hawaii, the Republican Party is the counterculture.”

Only a few are prepared to counter, that “But the Republicans are the party…,” and their minds shut down because they have no clear idea what a Republican or the Republican Party does mean, because it was always just the “unthinkable.” They could not even think of voting “Republican” -- that was the success of their conditioning (indoctrination) by their Democrat/union teachers.

But with the election of Governor Lingle -- and seeing that Christmas and different sex marriages were not abolished as the Democrat scare-mongers had promised if she was elected, many more came around to realizing that they were just being manipulated and deceived by those who think it is all right to do so, as long as they get paid for doing so and follow the professional rules that make such wrongs “right.”

Unfortunately, a lot of those types of people, are drawn into politics, or had been in the last several decades -- dominating it almost exclusively -- and driving everybody else away and out of it. And so government came to have a bad name and reputation that most people no longer wanted to have anything to do with.

And that’s primarily why we need a change -- because government shouldn’t be regarded with such low esteem. It should be attracting our most innovative and resourceful minds. What I’ve always been impressed with about such people, is that they are eminently communicative, rather than secretive about how they think and arrive at their conclusions -- and plans for action; what is described in politics as “transparency.” You see the logic of how they arrive at their conclusions -- and not just a mystifying conclusion after all is said and done, which is of course, tremendously discouraging to participation.

Such a manner of information processing can be described as “arbitrary” -- that there is no rhyme or reason for that conclusion other than what that person says so. Thus people drop out of participation to de-legitimize that institution and its processes. While the public is invited to participate and give their input, the feeling is, the decision has already been made, and one is just window dressing the outcome to make it seem “legitimate.”

The newspapers, as witnessed to these events, rather than reporting on such irregularities, further distort and legitimize such travesties -- and seem to take particular delight in doing so -- as though they had a stake in that perverse outcome.

In reading the “letters to the editor,” and now the many other (Internet) forums, the obvious and naked manipulations and deceit, are almost comical in their childishness and intents -- in an age in which most people know, and have seen better. “Real” people are not so highly-motivated to risk their credibility in such obvious deceptions and manipulations -- and do it so regularly and singlemindedly.

That is the weakness in the community information pool that is now the most exploited and tainted -- to the point in which it has virtually no credibility and integrity -- but also mandating the necessity for change. Something else emerges as the best of its time…

Few could predict that because of the Akaka-Case toxicity, the letters section would devolve from unrestrained Bush-bashing to a cesspool of unsubstantiated fabrications and personal attacks that is always the last gasp of a dying institution and way of life. But is it the newspapers or the Democrat Party?