I am grateful that there is a FOX News network, and I have learned quite a bit from watching it. It is always nice to see how the other side thinks and reacts to various news stories.
The one thing that disturbs me greatly, is not only the commentators views, but that of the viewers via the e-mails, on both the liberal and conservative news stations.
Am I the only one to notice that we are throwing the baby out with the bath water, as both sides dig in and do battle, neither side willing to give an inch?
The democrats are doing battle with the evil empire and their conservative ways. Every imaginable failing is the republicans fault. They can do no right. The war, economy, the pandering to big business, it's all their fault.
The republicans don't want this country to fall into those liberal hands for surely, those ideas will ruin the American way of life. Abortion, gay rights, immigration and stem cell research, what will they think of next.
It's us against them mentality, that will be the downfall of us all. The world is passing us up, and we progress backwards in petty squabbles like kids on a playground, "if you don't play by my rules, I'm taking my ball and going home". Both sides play this game, refusing to compromise on anything, or give credit, when it is due.
As we bicker back and forth, our economy, education, manufacturing, technology and ranking as a nation to be looked up too, is sinking faster then a rock.
Let's stop the blame game, and start finding the solutions to get us out of this quagmire we are in. The politicians have us battle one another and we suffer as they keep going back to Washington and feast.
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Whenever they show viewer email on TV, I am reminded: 100 is the average IQ. Nothing wrong with that, just that most of Congress has a higher IQ, so they can run circles around the majority of America. But, unfortunately, the people in power seem to have much less conscience and common sense than the people with average 100 IQs. Power corrupts, and maybe knowledge corrupts, too? Just thinking out loud...
I have been considering that myself for awhile. In grammar and hight school the education is broad; if you are lucky you go to a school that teaches you how to think instead of what to think. Then every level of education beyond that, continues to focus and narrow ones view to a specific arena. Suddenly it is more difficult to generalize; to view things other than within your area of expertise. You lose touch with the normal everyday & the knowledge corruption is the assumption by you & others) that you know what is best for all.
I think about money in the same sense. How are the law makers and corporate bosses able to equate with the difficulty life must be for someone who makes minimum wage? How is someone who gets a BONUS of a million dollars supposed to relate to a family with two working parents and no health insurance? I don't think they can; so they depersonalize anyone who is not them in order to continue to rationalize the inequity: corruption.
Joe and Jane, I think both of you have hit the nail on the head, in that they run inside their little bubble and can't relate to people that are on the outside of their little sphere.
Sort of like when the President (was it Bush, #42?) was amazed at the grocery store bar code readers most Americans had been using for years...
In another sense, I suppose most American citizens, even those living below the poverty line, are living in our own bubble where we can't relate to a war fought on our soil, or to people in Cambodia who live on $1 a day (I know I can't...)
I think the difference is, some of us are trying to relate, while Congress seems to try NOT to relate as much as possible.
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