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ORIGINAL: MattUK2
I’m going to pop into this thread because I’ve lived in both countries and I’ve left both countries for the same reason. What I noticed is that people do not look at their own failures and assess themselves on the basis of what they can do to change their lives for the better. Rather the basis of what the government & the foreigners did to them, blaming their feelings of helplessness on outside factors.
Complainers about the government say, “If only the government’s policies on (gun control, price of eggs, war) would only change, it would make our lives better. They make themselves the victims of the government and outside influences to blame.
These victims say the government/foreigners’etc created their problems. By doing so they no longer feel personal responsibility for the ills that befall them. The only people I see that can really lay claim to being victims of a government/foreigners/etc are those so physically and/or mentally handicapped they do not have the free will to stop what is being done to them.
What the self-proclaimed victims want to forget is THEY are responsible for the government and the policies. They voted the government into power - either through direct voting or by not voting. And if you say you voted for the “other guy” so it’s not your fault, then you’re lying to yourself. How? Just as the original 13 American colonies did you remove yourself from the source that you no longer want to be a part of. How? As thousands of American and British citizens are doing they leaving and renouncing their citizenships for political reasons.
This is what I chose to do.
You say you can’t (or is it you won’t) because of X or XX then stop making yourself a victim and find a way to stop those things you don’t like. Get out of your pubs, football games, off your couch and put the remote down turn off Holyoaks/CSI and hit the streets - en mass.
Politicians are deathly afraid of organized disgruntled voters who take to the streets - and I mean peaceful demonstrations. It’s called freedom of speech and it is the first thing to go when you allow your government to not be responsible to you. And gun control is a form of the destruction of free speech.
Politicians blows with the wind - s/he get paid the same whether they pass policies that are beneficial or not. They like the power, the lifestyle, the perks, threaten those benefits and they’ll do what you want them to do. You see, by following the winds whether from the right or the left the politician is either your puppet or the other guys. Sure money talks, but so do millions of votes. So does embarrassing a politician in the press.
Don’t want to do that? Then shut up, and die.
If you keep allowing yourself to feel victimized by the government’s policies very soon your behavior becomes second nature and prevents you from ever rising above your limitations. Just like Pavlov’s dog.
We are now live in a global world of intense competition, you can no longer afford to feel sorry for yourself and all those bad policies of the government for your situation. You have to confront and control your own destiny, or else give up and die - slowly, in front of the telly, in the pub, at the football game listening to all the others exactly like you.
Saying what happens in the USA doesn't affects the UK, and vice versa is xenophobic because each will adapt their laws/policies based upon what the other does by quoting each other saying, “If it’s good enough for the Americans/British then we should do it too.” Law makers for the most part are lazy they look for what’s called precedence so they don’t have to make the decision themselves.
The USA and the UK are no longer the powers they want the world to think they are, and they will do whatever they can to help each other appear to be strong so don't think what happens in the UK or USA stays there.
While I don't agree with every word I am not going to nitpick on details.
Excellent post
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