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Advocacy for better public policy and broader acceptance of diversity in society is often void of the voices who are treated the worst by traditional problems. Those who support subsets of mainstream advocacy types and alternative solutions are not immune from this, unless they are specifically attempting to have open dialogue with the broadest number of people who have otherwise been silenced.
For many years U.S. citizens have used the documents written by the original founders for addressing how the advantages for the elite are oppressive for the majority. However, the traditions of politics as well as those of all three branches of government have been heavily influenced by elites with an agenda that is supported by systemic oppression. Therefor advocacy efforts which don't propose radical changes to the way the system works are supporting the system that doesn't work for most people and shifting the elite advantages from one group identified as disadvantaged to another.The oppression of traditional policies doesn't hurt the most diverse aspects of our culture as much as it does those who are the least likely to be able to follow conventions. Although we are taught to accept conventions simply because conventional approaches are the best which has been found so far, many of us couldn't do that, even if we tried. Of course autistics have always been banned due to this type of exclusion that protects the status quo of public policymaking.
Once people are systematically divided by need, taught or their proper place, punished for noncompliance, have their arguments polarized and their freedoms substituted by the advantages given to the voting/valued citizens, they can call it democracy and control people by the threat of losing it.
Recently, I was told by mental-health advocates (ones that were working as mental-health professionals) that my advocacy must reflect their set of values and that my language must be in keeping with the medical language describing autism so that credit could be given to the positive changes which professionals have made when describing their clients. I was professionally diagnosed via the internet as having hang-ups. I was not amused.
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The biggest threat to the US policies comes from excluding the majority of voices and the people who are in command do not have to monitor such exclusion. All that is necessary is that we as the majority of the public accept the taboos of individualism and follow the bigoted notions of who is important and what contributions are important.
Many claim to be winning when most people aren't allowed in the race. Ideas are only allowed to be challenged within a narrow realm of like-minded individuals. I've heard it said that people who don't conform to mainstream politics and who challenge the system are arrogant and misleading because they aren't interested in practical solutions. I think that accusation is directed toward the wrong people.
Hierarchies are exclusive in how they show that everyone must be seen as working towards the same goal, motivated by the same things, and be gratified by the same rewards. This is how democracy is opposed.
With the large number of people in the United States who are not being educated, not being trained for jobs, and not working, is it any wonder that so very few even vote at presidential elections? How does telling people that they are lazy, ignorant, and irresponsible encourage them to accept responsibility? It seems to me that those who have been privileged to benefit from policies, which catered to their uniqueness have been irresponsible by not encouraging more inclusion.
It doesn't make sense to blame the big corporations which run our government or the politicians who do their bidding for such problems if we aren't willing to change how we treat each other and become more accepting of the diverse ideas which come from the most unlikely sources and which challenge our most honored traditions.
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