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Step One: [We] Admitted we were powerless over politics – mostly with regard, but not limited to, stressing over daily news media accounts and opinion.

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We twelve-steppers have resolved to simply get out of the game. Oh, we’ll be good citizens and refrain from causing trouble, mostly, but don’t ask us to agree with big government nanny-state philosophy any time soon. We still vote and pay attention; what we want to stop doing, though, is constantly stressing over the sad state of affairs that our so-called “leaders” have allowed to deteriorate in spite of the lessons of history.

We don’t want to participate in the tabloid mentality of news media “Oh no, the sky is falling!” any longer. We know that it already fell. And only an uber-rich person can really make a difference. They can do that by hiring people regardless of the state of taxation and inflation that were born out of insane fiscal policy. They can influence the political climate with significant donations, whereas most people cannot.

We understand the economic games that are being played in the name of greed, and that we are being used as a sector of consumers.

So in Step One, we resolved to stop beating the dead horse, so to speak. We’ll go on with our lives doing the best we can and keep the spark of the dream of success alive way down deep someplace.

Filed under: Philosophy - Political Detox
by ike