But, what can you, as a simple individual with a lot of work and responsibilities, do ?

Question

This is a particularly thorny issue because the debate is often wrapped in several layers of hypocrisy, often leading to many humanitarian plans but no actual improvements. Liberals take pride in buying products made in accordance with child labour regulations although this means that companies will move from places such as Bangladesh and the previously employed children will end-up in forced prostitution. Conservatives take pride in “saving” fetuses but look down on single mothers as undesirables. Everybody decries child abuse by priests after trials but before that it is a taboo subject. Everybody decries forced labour and prostitution but after we reassure ourselves of our high moral standard, we forget about the solutions. To most people, the girls raped in Cambodia or the children staving in Sudan are world problems, issues to put on a bumper-sticker so everybody can see how moral we are.

The media is quick to profit from our hypocrisy, take the McCann scandal, all Daily Mail readers are preoccupied about the little girl, but no more than soap-opera-watchers and British people were personally offended at the speculation that the parents may be guilty. Yet, beyond all this hypocrisy, empty slogans and self-praising lies a real problem. The 5-year-old Thai girl sold by her mother to prostitution rings and who has to endure daily rape and beatings alone is not helped by pretty talks.The 7-year-old Sudanese boy who saw his parents killed by militias is not helped by our self-serving hypocrisy. Gadgets, positive discrimination, celebrity gossip, global warming are all there to make us feel better about ourselves. But what can you, as a simple individual with a lot of work and responsibilities, do ?

Answer 1

GET INVOLVED, GET INFORMED AND INFORM EVERYONE YOU CAN.

THERE IS AN INFORMATION WAR GOING ON FOR YOUR MIND.

THINK FOR YOURSELF AND FIGHT THE FASCIST POLICE STATE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE FOR A TRULY FREE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Answer 2

What type of mind revels in wealth attained off of the backs of the downtrodden? What ethic adopts a divine paradigm under which imperialism flourishes at the expense and suffering of poor people? Is it not the height of absurdity that the top U.S. leaders wear their Christianity on their sleeves while Jesus advocated giving up everything and, "Come follow me"? As slaughter takes place in Jesus' name the war in Iraq is called a crusade. The magnates and CEOs of the military-industrial-complex plan more crusades, more of the same, in perpetuity, well, at least until the rapture.

The U.S. government and their religious Reich talking heads want us to believe that God is on our side. Neo-fascists are good at telling us what God wants and what we should do to please him and them. I can see no better rationale nor reason to dismiss the existence of a deity than by using God's name in justifying killing, carnage and mayhem for profit and wealth, for victory in "perpetual" war in the Lord's name. It is a sick and twisted mind that prays for success as it preys with religious justification upon the impoverished of the earth.

Knowing that neither candidate's positions are acceptable, strengthens the chains and the stranglehold the Democratic and Republican parties have over the electorate. Voting against our conscience invalidates it. It lends credibility to the embedded corrupt electoral institutions that stifle and limit other options. How can freedom loving people tolerate enabling those who oppress other than Republican and Democratic voices and choices? How many more years will the delusion continue? How much longer will we perpetuate systemic electoral malfeasance by providing our stamp of approval onto the farce that elections have become? I reject the so-called "two party" system. I cast my ballot in the 2008 presidential election in the hope that the people will some day expunge the Republican and Democratic parties' stranglehold on elections. I will not sanction the fraud ever again. A free people should never to have to.

Answer 3

People tend not to know the entire picture of a candidate and often is misled by the politicians.

VOTE for your choice as US President on my 360 degrees blog and know who will likely win.

Answer 4

What can an individual do?

Join a socialist group or a labor union and fight for improvements.

You won't see any immediate results, and it may seem a LITTLE futile, but anything else is *completely* futile.

Answer 5

You can spend all day railing against hypocracy in politics!