A brief political rant....
I'm not nearly as in to politics as some people. In fact, most of the times I'd prefer to stay out of a heated political discussion. But I also believe that complacency and apathy are far worse than getting involved and making a few wrong decisions or formulating some bad opinions. Ok, perhaps straight party voting is worse. I can't stand people that vote a party line and have NO CLUE what is going on.
I am definite an independent when it comes to politics. While I think some liberalism is a healthy thing I don't agree with the ideology when it ignores facts, is illogical, and is more harmful to society than the purported benefit. I also don't buy into conservatism when they are trying to shove their religious ideas down everyone's throat. Basically, I am too conservative for the liberals and too liberal for the conservatives. I hate politicians that play political lines as opposed to having some balls and taking an affirmative stand.
If you have forgotten about 9/11 then you should be ashamed. If you believe that "they" will leave us alone, you are a fool. And if you agree with the libs, democrats, media and terrorists that our country sucks you should leave.
Here we have some "peaceful" Muslim / Moslim (what's the problem? can't figure out how to spell it? same thing for the Quoran) protestors. I guess they are peaceful because they aren't killing someone.
How this is not considered a direct threat and act of war I have no idea. I guess I am too conservative.
Last, but not least, I'd like to say thanks to all those men and women out there fighting for us. Here is something you can do if you' like to say thanks as well!
8 comments:
Great post. Great blog as well.
Thank you vey much for the feedback! I think I am too harsh sometimes, but people really need to wake up. If they don't like it, they need to vote and write their representatives.
Nope, you are not harsh at all, you are very moderate and sensible, reasonable and logical. I believe that the insane left and right get way too much attention. I guess moderates are by nature not as in your face, which makes it hard for their voices to be heard. I like your blog very much and look forward to reading you regularly>
Brad -
No big surprise here but you and I have similar political beliefs !
I found some satisfaction with the libertarian party. (http://www.tx.lp.org/) I know they will never win an election of any consequence but hey - ya gotta try sometimes !
Liberalism ignores facts and is illogical? You present that as if liberalism is alone in doing so, as if EVERY political ideology doesn't do the same thing in it's own interests. So you have just committed the sin which you scold liberalism for. I suppose you think that's very liberal of me, ending that last sentence with a preposition.
Well, I'm not a big champion of libralism either. Liberals are too wishy washy and center of the road for my tastes. But it's better that the "compassionate conservatism" that's taken on the Newspeak of Orwell's famous novel, 1984.
"No Child Left Behind" means cutting funding to education. "Homeland Security" means mismanagement, spying on U.S. citizens, using terrorism as an excuse to terrorize people in Greenpeace, the Green party. Here in Denver a 20-year old girl was investigated and hounded by the FBI for starting an organization called Food Not Bombs. She was into feeding the poor. Sheesh. There's some conservative logic for you. "If you don't follow our program and ideology, you need investigating by the FBI."
As for the fundamentalist Muslims you picture, sure, fundamentalist are out of their minds. That goes for Jewish fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, all fundamentalists. That isn't just the province of Islam. What about that wacko Christian group that goes around to the funerals of soldiers saying God hates those soldiers who fight wars while the U.S. still lets gays live here. WHAT ABOUT THAT KIND OF NUTTITNESS?
Or the nuts I grew up with, being the only Jewish kid in my class in a Soutern Baptist town. Kids asked to see my horns in kindergarten, told me my family killed Christ. I thought Christ was some guy who died about two weeks before I got to kindergarten. Imagine my surprise to find out he'd been dead 2000 years. Or the KKK cops in town that shot my dog on our front lawn because they didn't think they could get away with shooting my family, though they'd have loved too. And the fact that in my public school Christian prayers were recited daily, in spite of being against the Constitution and making me feel like a total alien in the world from the first grade on.
Why do you focus on on Islam fundamentalists? This is such a problem with flag-waving Americans. They have so little understanding of the other cultures of the rest of the world, and what understanding they do have is usually based on people like those at Fox News. Pathetic.
As my friend Miz Vittow said, "If religon is the opiate of the masses, then fundamentalism is the amphetamine."
It's not confined to the Islamic culture.
Also, if the U.S. didn't support the brutal dictators of the middle east, like the Kuwaitis, the Saudis, etc., if we really cared about the people, we wouldn't play the oil game the way we do, and those people wouldn't be as impoverished by their governments as they are. Poverty and ignorance lead to fundamentalism. Poverty, ignorance, and anger.
Why are the Saudis our friends? Women aren't allowed to get educations, they can't drive or leave the house without being shrouded in a burka and escorted by a male, they have their clitorises cut off when they are young women so they won't be tempted by sexual pleasure. At least Saddam was secular and women had the same access to education and the public sphere as men, and didn't suffer cliterodectomies.
So why was Saddam considered the brutal dictator and not the Saudis? Hmmm. Guess that's just more liberal illogical thinking, eh?
Good comments and as I had indicated before it is one of the reasons that I enjoy your feedback.
However, I'd like to reiterate that I don't buy into either camp on all issues. There are certainly times when the conservatives are whacked out of their minds and illogical as well. I just don't see it as much. (here come the arrows)
You don't see it as much, because what others see as illogical and whacked are things with which you agree. Otherwise, you'd see it.
I'm not suggesting here you become a wishy washy liberal. I'm suggesting to rise above the politcal spectrum entirely . . . but to do that, you have to take the hero's journey down the rabbit hole and give up the ego to shriking all freakazoid in the hot plasmic furnace of waking up. Not an easy task, but nothing is more rewarding.
Then you will understand how silly it is to pretend to be an American, or Frenchman, or Iraqi, or anything but a cosmic citizen.
But, as I said, who really cares if this infantile little species meets it's demise because it can't find it's way out of the teenage locker room?
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
--Rumi
"What wake the drowsy apricot, betide?"--Monty Python
I pointed this blogspot out elsewhere, but do read Riverbend (a young woman in Baghdad who blogs when she can) today, to get an inkling of what we brought to Iraq.
Saddam was brutal, but not nearly so suffocating at the Iran-leaning Shites that are taking over now.
You can see why we've made new enemies among those in the Middle East who aren't fundmentalists, and why they see us as destroying the freedom they had. It is so sad how ignorant the U.S. is in what it's doing. It's certainly not accomplishing any freedom or democracy.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
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