As a guy in my mid-30’s, returning back to a college campus after last receiving my MS degree some 9 years ago, I’m reminded of a quote by Winston Churchill:
“Show me a man at the age of twenty who is not a liberal, and I?ll show you a man without a heart. Show me a man at the age of forty who is not a conservative, and I?ll show you a man without a brain.”
That isn’t to say that I believe in all things conservative, nor feel all things liberal are stupid.
Quite the contrary.
As many of you, I hope, will find w/ age and experience in the real world, that to remain closer to the fulcrum of political beliefs and ideologies would be best, however, in a world of far-left and far-right, as well as just plain idiots, tyrants, radicals, murderers, and egos, many of the world’s leaders are forced into situations that those of us not in their positions can only armchair quarterback our responses based upon our own ignorance of the world around us.
And please, don’t misinterpret my use of the word ignorance, as calling those of you who don’t support our President as being ignorant. Rather, I ask that you refer to the definition of the word in the dictionary to simply see that it only describes one’s level of understanding to the brevity of a subject in its entirity.
If you really disapprove of Bush, based soley upon your belief that he, and he alone, has been capable of causing the interest rates to begin to rise, oil prices to rise, the hurricane devistation relief efforts to be slowed, or was wrong in invading and remaining in Iraq, then, I beg of you to please begin expanding your minds.
Economics is cyclical - supply and demand is an ebb and flow of events that trade places continuously over varying periods of time; Gas is nothing more than a scarce resource, and subject to variability and volatility; To blame the federal government for a local crisis, is to be a hypocrite to your own belief in self government and rule (i.e. local governments are chosen by their citizens; if you want the Fed to take over local planning, you’d likely be the same person crying foul when they told you how to run your local events and policies too); and lastly, to critizie Iraq is a joke - Clinton’s admin was fully aware of Rwanda and what was going on in Slovakia; what Sadaam did to citizens that spoke against his government has been confirmed to be on the same scale as the murders in both of the aforementioned. How do you propose we should deal w/ a psychopath, such as that? Pay them off? You would have critized a government for that, too, just as many of our own did w/ making Ollie North a scapegoat.
My point is simply this: I respect other thoughts and opinions b/c it’s the ideas of others that make each of us, hopefully, think more fully about our own beliefs and views of what it is going on around us.
However, far too often, our country is becoming more and more a land of hypocrites who fail to see that the real world isn’t something on MTV or as we’re so lead to believe it to, or should be in our overly polically correct culture. Many of the countries and people in other parts of the world are only now getting to where we were during the days our founding fathers first drafted our own Bill of Rights, that we now, are so capable of taking for granted.
Thus, if you want to criticize someone and or someone’s policy, then please provide your own words of wisdom on how you would handle the situation differently. Otherwise, you’re only pointing out a pile of shit on the floor that all of us already see, yet you’re not better prepared to pick it up than those you attack. - c