The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
Opinion polls: "Who do you think should be running the states, the federal government, the states or no opinion?"
Huh?
The states and the federal government work together to fund the states. The question is one that divides and conquers. It also sets folks up for the elections next year. The federal government will be the enemy in all the right extremist commercials and it will be hurting the states in someway or another. Probably god will be under attack.
The recipient of the opinion poll said after getting off the phone, "I don't think there should be a federal government. There should be one pot of gold (Irish - seriously) and all the states take from it as needed. Why are we paying for so many bureaucrats in Washington anyway?" That was the answer. Amazing how people know NOTHING about their government and how it works. There are Donor States and Taker States and the Takers are primarily the southern states where lack of education and faux beliefs live.
These folks never stop to assess their own education or lack thereof. They are an authority because the country is one person-one vote. They never stop to ask if anyone else has answers based in facts and policy; god is the authority and has control, no one else needs to. Amazing. They don't value education or the knowledge of others, they value their own lack of it, powerlessness to god and life circumstances of sacrifice/impoverishment to prove their worth in heaven. It is a darn shame they don't participate in thinking about policy so much as react to power.
Their disdain for Washington, DC is due to the fact Trump is not a king and there is a Congress to decide policy. It is why Congress is always receiving bad ratings, it doesn't capitulate to the king.
The elections of 2018 is about States Rights and runaway government in Washington; dissolving DC and placing power in the states will allow the people to finally have what they want. BUT, they don't want to give up the 'collective' pot of gold, now do they?
That opinion is from a woman in a Taker State.
There is no appreciation of the arts either. Remember "W?" What is opera?
When conceived in 1880 (click here) in its original size (approx. 70 cm) as the crowning element of The Gates of Hell , seated on the tympanum, The Thinker was entitled The Poet. He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which had inspired The Gates, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on his work. The Thinker was therefore initially both a being with a tortured body, almost a damned soul, and a free-thinking man, determined to transcend his suffering through poetry. The pose of this figure owes much to Carpeaux’s Ugolino (1861) and to the seated portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici carved by Michelangelo (1526-31).The Democrats need a new icon rather than a donkey. "The Thinker" is about perfect to reflect the American mind and it can't think beyond the next message from the preacher and the commercial media. At least "The Thinker" WANTS to move out of suffering and not wallow in it.
