Random Thoughts
When people like something you write, its called an article or an editorial. When they dont, its called a rant.
When people call someone divisive, they are really expressing their dismay with the fact that that person is influential and does not agree with them.
Many people who did not attend last months “Tea Parties” ridiculed the parties and those who attended. Hundreds of thousands of your fellow citizens engaged in a peaceful protest. I think its safe to say that this was the largest set of demonstrations not directed against a war since the Civil Rights rallies of the 1960’s. You can agree or disagree with the message of those protesting, but you have to admit that the Tea Parties were a very well coordinated series of hundreds of protests across the Nation attended by those with legitimate concerns about the state of affairs. Writing off the Tea Partiers as rednecks or extremists is only going to make them feel more alienated.
Big government liberals and conservatives have gradually expanded the size, scope, and powers of government for decades. When people like me advocate reducing the size, scope, and powers of the government back down to its Constitutional principles, we are told that its “too drastic” of a change to make. It was much more drastic to change our government from a small, limited, Constitutional Republic to a massive, bloated, wasteful, Byzantine bureaucracy.
Many people who love to start political arguments will immediately shut down when a counterargument is made. They tend to do one of three things: change the subject, end the conversation, or launch a personal attack.
More people seem to pay attention to the newest reality tv show, the latest single, the personal lives of celebrities, or whatever sport or sports are being played at the moment than pay attention to the news and politics. With all of the news and information that is readily available these days, you really have to make an effort in order to be ignorant of what is going on. Sure, sports are great (I could care less about the rest of that stuff though), but in 10 years this stuff really wont matter to most people who werent directly involved in them. In 10 years, trillion dollar bailouts, the economy, individual rights, and government spending will continue to be extremely important.
Americanly Yours,
Phred Barnet
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in response to more people caring about celebrities and reality tv; another thing is that these people only care about politics every four years for the election. such a big deal is made about voting in this one election that people tune out for the next four years until the following election. people feel that their only civil duty is get in political debates every election, vote, and then sit back when things go wrong and say, “well, I voted for the OTHER guy”.
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