The Threat of the Bad Idea

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The claim that has always sold the US voters on public programs is that they are designed to provide aid to the less fortunate. What is truly unfortunate is that voters are the more affluent ruling class. As a culture we have always glorified those whom we call philanthropists and have ignored their beliefs and ideals which indicate the goal behind what they describe as provisions.

This view of charity trickles down to the so-called middle-class who have the same aspirations with less success. Some refer to the group I'm indicating as the liberal elite. Their interest is in the arts, competitive sports, and education. Although these are considered liberators for the impoverished, in the United States, they do no such thing.

The worst aspect of the United States public aid is our misguided notion of charity and the pity that accompanies it. These ideas are partially the result of nationalism and the completely false attribution to philanthropists for building this nation. The credit should instead go to those who were enslaved who provided the land thieves with the luxuries they claimed to have "rights" to. Unfortunately, this mindset and the values it created continue in less conspicuous ways which are given politically correct sweet sounding names and are more difficult to target.

The disabled population within the United States has always been the main target for the worst treatment. There has always been the myth of scarcity, which aids the false claim that population growth is always the result of ignorance and that the formally educated are more responsible. From this many believe that wealth and prosperity is open to everyone and that the charity that is provided to the so-called ignorant equates the nation with compassionate concern.

The umbrella which structures public aid is political debate, which excludes the uneducated who, by having no voice in the matter, continue to be degraded and oppressed.

The more conspicuous methods of population control are no longer acceptable to the liberal elite so a part of the population must be treated as unworthy for everyone to be more agreeable with methods that exclude them.

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The public program for children which is advertised as a provision for students with more academic challenges goes by the misleading name of No Child Left Behind. The irony of it being called this is as great as that of the claims of philanthropy being a compassionate act and the provisions of the liberal elite which it decided in pompous political debates as encouraging liberation.

The No Child Left Behind act, which excludes more children than ever before leads to the institutionalization of more of our nation's youth than ever before. This act is part of the IDEA which is an excellent example of the direction our nation continues to go in excluding the disabled population.

Unfortunately, the Internet is no exception when it comes to excluding uneducated people (which is the majority of US citizens) from the political decisions which have traditionally had the worst consequences for them. I'm always disheartened by the suggestion within debates concerning autism that we should all just get along. Harmony has always been a trap which prevents people who are the least valued part of society from discussing what will and what won't empower them.

The diagnosis of autism mainly describes people who are neurologically different and will therefore, be less likely to be accepted within typical standards of education. If people who are challenged by the mainstream politics of education are not granted the freedom of expression to determine their own empowerment, the oppression of the disabled will be further strengthened.

The majority of US citizens are excluded from the decisions that affect them and yet the nation is still considered a democracy. For anyone who is interested in the empowerment of the people who are the least valued I would suggest not only encouraging more debate but learning to debate in ways that personality, presumption, and accomplishments are less of a factor so that better ideas can be received and understood by the people who receive the least accommodations.

Comments

[Adelaide]

Hi.

Really liked the picture of the university you plucked from The Age.

"The worst aspect of the United States public aid is our misguided notion of charity and the pity that accompanies it. These ideas are partially the result of nationalism and the completely false attribution to philanthropists for building this nation. The credit should instead go to those who were enslaved who provided the land thieves with the luxuries they claimed to have "rights" to. Unfortunately, this mindset and the values it created continue in less conspicuous ways which are given politically correct sweet sounding names and are more difficult to target."

Justice before charity? I don't like the euphemism treadmill very much either. I can see how charity and pity created the modern nation. Perhaps it is a consequence of being created as a colony.

We could all stand to learn to debate. Minimise the personality politics!

As you say here:

"For anyone who is interested in the empowerment of the people who are the least valued I would suggest not only encouraging more debate but learning to debate in ways that personality, presumption, and accomplishments are less of a factor so that better ideas can be received and understood by the people who receive the least accommodations."

[Ed]

I think charity is a wonderful thing. As I said, "our misguided notion of charity and the pity that accompanies it." It's a misguided notion of charity because pity doesn't belong as part of it. In the U.S. justice is unreasonable to expect. We're involved is a class war (always have been) and our "justice" system has always been the enforcer of that class war. That makes real justice impossible.

The main credit for building the nation should first go to the Indians and the black slaves who paid for it with blood, sweat, tears, and death. Currently, I hear in the mainstream media some people concerned about redistribution of wealth based on sharing it. That could never happen. The entire system is dependent on the continued support and protection of the empires (corporations) and the emperors who run them. The entire system would collapse if justice began to be part of it.

I agree, "Minimise the personality politics!"

Only the minute few at the very tip of the upper class are educated, and only they have any desire to debate or any knowledge of how. Education is the sport of politics, and debate is the foundation of the sport. Unfortunately, the truth is a threat to the preservation of the sport.

I know what a debate looks like but wouldn't know the first thing about entering one. I'm not formally educated and formal education and debate are synonymous. It's very difficult for uneducated and educated people to discuss things. When you live every day without filling your memory with historical progression which can't reveal the truth you automatically learn with the kind of reason the universe reveals. Only then can you have a practical view of things. The corporations which decide what gets taught in school can't afford to allow practical thinking. This is the basis for class divisions. This post is really all about class division. Entering into a debate with the oppressed class begins with reorienting listening skills to accept practical thinking.