Healthy Living Is President Obama To Blame?

I of late received an anti-Obama email amongst a link to a video that blamed the President for our country's electrical flow together with futurity problems. This faulty/irrational agency of thinking is a gross distortion of reality because no private is responsible for our problems, non Obama, non Bush…no one!

Instead, our problems stalk from a malfunctioning political-economic organisation together with a misdirected culture. At its really core, our social club is built on a foundation of beliefs together with values that promote much of the negative side of human nature. The lawsuit is a political-economic organisation that, for example:

• Allows coin from exceptional interests to dictate the actions of Congress
• Repeatedly fails to cook our severely broken together with unsustainable healthcare organisation (see reference)
• …and then on.

Bottom line is that American political-economic organisation only doesn't piece of work good for the vast bulk of our citizens.

What nosotros ought to hold upwards doing to cook our problems is focusing sincerely on reforming our political-economic organisation into ane that:

• Forces widespread transparency
• Aligns the ought-tos amongst the can-dos
• Provides an environs where all individuals are enabled to develop their positive potential
• Is driven yesteryear empathy together with pity (e.g., living yesteryear the "Golden Rule" ethics)
• Stops equating personal value (the inherent "worth" of one's self/ego) amongst personal wealth together with might over others
• Takes a long-term, big-picture view
• Isn't fearful of key change
• Inhibits individuals from going into politics who are focused primarily on their ain personal gains (e.g., yesteryear minimizing the money-politics connectedness through improve stimulate contribution reform together with limiting politicians upon leaving business office from becoming well-paid lobbyists for corporations they've helped)
• Embraces both scientific discipline together with spirituality. 

Also, run into this link for a give-and-take of convergence of iii essence healthcare reform issues: American values, personal responsibility, together with pragmatic solutions.

So, what's standing inwards the agency of such reform?

I debate that the answer, inwards large part, comes from analyzing this quote yesteryear Howard Zinn inwards a recent Bill Moyer's interview (at this link): "Democracy doesn't come upwards from the top. It comes from the bottom. Democracy is non what governments do. It's what people do… whenever the authorities has done anything to convey nigh change, it's done then alone because it's been pushed together with prodded yesteryear social movements, yesteryear ordinary people organizing." And this quote takes from ane of Zinn's books: "If commonwealth were to hold upwards given whatever meaning, if it were to travel beyond the limits of capitalism together with nationalism, this would non come, if history were whatever guide, from the top. It would come upwards through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those inwards might amongst disruption of the stability they needed."

So, if things are then bas for then many, why don't "we the people" demand meaningful (aka radical) change?

Well, it takes sure enough ways of thinking together with a proficient bargain of motivation for people to describe themselves out of despair. They must transform their life views from beingness overwhelmed amongst a sense of hopelessness together with helplessness to feeling hopeful, capable together with having a clear direction yesteryear which they tin actualize/realize their potential. This is possible, but non easy.

On the ane hand, nosotros all have got the inherent capacity to alter the agency nosotros recall nigh ourselves, others, our electrical flow life province of affairs together with our futures. We tin gain novel noesis together with skills. We have got the might to travel inspired together with to deed inwards constructive ways that enable us to develop their minds together with bodies, together with to order a improve character of life.

On the other hand, the negative influences of our civilisation tend to foster the negative side of human nature to travel dominant, which inhibit such positive thinking, learning together with action. These negative influences include such things as:

• Poor education, an dangerous living environment, racial prejudice, generations of poverty, propaganda together with "spin"
• Normal human thinking limitations (e.g., short-sightedness, over-generalization, depression frustration tolerance, misfortunate attending span, wishful thinking, close-mindedness, gullibility, misdirected focus, ignorance, influence of negative emotions, etc.)
• Corporations who hire lobbyists to acquire laws passed that exercise goodness them—i.e., creating the rules inwards their favor yesteryear "tilting the playfield"—which is oft at the expense/detriment of the full general public
• Cultural attitudes inwards which "money makes the man," "winning the game is what matters" together with "buyer beware" trump attitudes such equally "leading a virtuous life matters," "how you lot play the game is what's important" together with "focus on giving the consumer high value." 

And instead of supporting a "give me to a greater extent than of the pie" philosophy (i.e., "I deserve to hold upwards given to a greater extent than yesteryear the authorities equally entitlements"), our civilisation should hold upwards promoting a "create your ain pie" philosophy by:

• Making available character "ingredients," e.g., access to proficient education/training, availability of jobs, decent together with affordable healthcare, rubber neighborhoods together with realistic argue for hope.
• Promoting credence that the best pie a someone has the potential to create volition non necessarily hold upwards equally "tasty" equally other people's pies. That is, helping people realize that it's OK for some individuals to gain greater cloth rewards together with might than others, equally long equally it's acquired inwards a virtuous mode (i.e., through honesty, integrity, value-creation, etc.), together with equally long equally everyone's essential needs are satisfied (e.g., proficient food, healthcare, didactics together with protection). 

It's my promise that grass-roots movements some the dry ground focused on positive alter volition travel powerful plenty to exert the forcefulness needed to counteract the political, economical together with psychological pressures preventing meaningful systemic reform. This appears to hold upwards the alone reasonable agency to avoid the meltdown of American Democracy.

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