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Oct. 24, 2005 A person suffering from Bipolar disorder experiences two extreme emotional swings. Often they are manic. So much so that they are out of control. An individual in a manic stage will suffer thoughts of grandiosity as evidenced by such activities as sexual promiscuity, violent behavior, and extreme religiosity. On the other hand, when a person with Bipolar disorder is swinging the other direction, they are often depressed to the extent that suicide is an obsession. Bipolar is a disorder of extremes. Our country, perhaps the world, is suffering from this illness. We are collectively suffering from Bipolar Disorder. There is no middle-of-the-road. Our leaders are experiencing grandiose thinking. No one can fault our president for having any hidden agendas (perhaps the only “sort of” good thing I’ll say about the guy). We have known his agenda from day one, to make our government agencies more powerful than the people they serve. He is succeeding. Soon, the Supreme Court will be in his back pocket. He already has the CIA, FBI, and the nation’s military bowing to him. He began an illegal war (scratched CD, I know) in Iraq. He has covered the war up with all of his rhetorical news conferences, in which he reads whatever somebody typed on the paper. Apparently, public speaking was one of classes he skipped. How can we tell he is leading this country into the depths of aristocracy? His public popularity has waned to the point of comedy. Yet, he insists Americans are behind him “all the way.” Is this man blind? His ego is so enlarged that polls mean nothing to him, maybe his constituents in the White House, but not him. He keeps pumping out words, empty, vague, and for-the-most-part meaningless. His henchmen are falling like pawns in a game of chess. The once genius of Bush’s campaign, Karl Rove and Scooter Liddy are taking the fall for a tyrant. Those of you, who remember Watergate will see a similarity. On the other pole of this Bipolar country there sits millions of poor and disenfranchised citizens, not knowing where their next meal is coming from. There is a middle-class that no longer can be considered a middle class. They are only poor people that work for a living and live in houses they have mortgaged to the hilt, cars financed for seven years, and a pocket full of credit cards. The American Dream? I don’t think so.
Karl Marx would roll over in his grave. He predicted an uprising of the poor, but his philosophical thesis did not predict the rise of a middle class, but now the middle class is only a name. Perhaps his dream will come true about democracies. Our country needs a good dose of Lithium or Depakote to balance the split of ideologies currently in existence. That Depakote should be administered at our next election. We need someone strong enough to listen to the heart beat of his/her fellow citizens and take a stand on the Constitution upon which our country was built.
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