angst / free = ?

I wish it were a divide. It's more like a splintering, or maybe what the sidewalk looks like after you drop that nice French 60-year-old-vine Carignon from Languedoc. The one that was going to meld nicely with that leg of lamb you had roasting in the oven. The one you were going to share that evening to honor and impress your guest, and the end result may have won you a heartfelt gratitude, might have even gotten you laid. And so now before you, splattered about your feet in every direction, is you well intent, your creative ambition, and your most likely unrequited lust. You might as well be staring at the Democratic party. Here's an interesting read on this subject... Bridging the Democratic Divide ...and it is a concern. Our society has been so segmented from the residuals of the last few regimes, the damage is deep and reading the map to all the different roads to solution is mind numbing. One wonders if our current political system is capable of providing a base or framework of which we can build success on. We can't even agree on what success is. Image what it would take to agree on a change in our government structure...

Another topic that's a sore spot with me, the current lie from those least who benefit the most, that we are in a free market system befitting the standards set forth 240 years ago by those forefather dudes conservatives like to insessantly quote to spin their agenda. Actually, I really liked Ben Franklin. I know he got high more than he didn't. Anyway, I'm not feeling too free in the market place lately, as "free" means to be freely assaulted by big box stores with more money than thou or thee to sway government with high priced packs of rabid lawyers so as to pummel micro-business into oblivion, or worst yet, submission. Then there is the ability of employers for the common good afforded us by the benevolencey (cough-cough) of capitalism to freely degrade salaries into some sub-servitude realm where the most people on the planet work for the least amount of pay. Stocks go up in value when that happens.