Thursday, May 05, 2011

Toxic Parents and the Neglected Child

If you are having a hard time conceptualizing the irrelevance of the conventional political parties, Democrats and Republicans, to the well-being of the people in this age of the new class war, imagine that they are like toxic parents. That is, the political parties are like those parents who are always narcissisticly arguing with one another. Their venom leaks out all over the neglected children who can't figure out really why the parents are arguing. The parents are not about to let the children know.

Eventually the children will come to believe they are to blame for the dissension; the parents will eventually come to blame the kids. The dysfunctionality will continue into the next generation, unless of course the children realize they have to take their lives into their own hands and stop believing the parents will ever make matters right or explain why it all happened in the first place.

So, like the neglected children the people will some day have to realize they must take their well-being into their own hands and say good bye to conventional venomous politics as usual.