Opposites

Lately I am noticing things in terms of opposites.  Opposites or polar extremes like north and south or good and evil.  They are everywhere I seem to go and getting more and more prevalant everyday, day and night the sun and the moon.  What I see more and more is the poor and the rich, the white and the black, the smart and the stupid, the hard way and the easy way.  With the threat of a government shutdown last week, there were a lot of really worried people, mostly poor people who are surviving on almost nothing already.  While rich people who dont have any real idea of what problems are going on in America play petty political tactitcal games in order to seek re-election, real people in America are starving.  The middle class is slowly disappearing and the poor are getting larger and larger, sooner or late these opposites will fight as what always happens with opposites.  White people who oppressed black people for hundreds of years were eventually attacked by black people who were seen as opposites but actually arent at all for those actions of oppression.  In politics today smart people are fighting alot of dumb people.  Sarah Palin doesnt know basic geography and Donald Trump has bankrupted his own name a few times and these are leaders in the race for presidency.  Rich people, which is everyone in congress and the senate, are making decisions for the poor.  I want to see a reality TV show that drops these politicians off in these poor neighborhoods and watch as they try to survive because they wont, not the way things are now.  Sooner or later these opposing forces will clash and it wont be on the steps of congress, it will be in your backyard.  Us and them and when it comes to us and them, them are doing down.  What is unfortunate, as has been throughout human history, is that it is alwyas about opposites of us and them, it should all be us.  We are all human and are no different from anybody else in that matter.  Some of us just happen to be born white, black , asian, or latino or in the US or Somolia, Darfur, or Cambodia these lucky chances make me no different so why would I ever choose to hurt people in those situations and not help them.  What kind of a person would I be?  Some of the stuff going on is just pure evil.  I like finding the similarities of people.  In reality noone knows how to solve the debt crisis, the environment, poverty, drugs, but we at least need to admit that and work together and solve these big issues.  Arguing over taxes and dumb selfish things doesnt help the future of our children or the current situation that children in this country live in.  There are kids who dont eat in this country and kids without families.  As the late Tupac Shakur said why is there a war on drugs when there should be a war on poverty.  There will always be drugs were there is poverty because poverty is misery and drug use and money is a easy, quick, and sometimes one of the only ways out of that situation...its about survival and we dont want extra money taken out of our paychecks for some people to be able to eat, for some people to be able to learn.  Many states are cutting education programs almost entirely.  In Detroit they have cut teachers so much that there are some schools with 60 kids per teacher...no chance.  Some cities are cutting police forces down to nothing--crime wins.  Eventually this stuff comes to a head as it did in the depression, world war II, vietnam and the civil rights movement.  Hungry people will fight back.  The news says things are getting better but I see with my own two eyes how tyhings are getting worse.  The American dream was on its way out when Hunter S Thompson was writing his books and now its slipping even further and further away.  I believe that I am human.  I am not perfect and have my flaws and ultimately am  not that different from an animal and definitely not that different from any other human.  I have my basic needs and wants but I feel that as a human I am in some way responsible for other people suffering because I am not and can do something about it.  The next time you think you are so different, put yourself in someone elses shoes.  What the fuck would you do.