There are several issues with your premise.
1)Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. This administration in particular has shown disdain for conservatism, but more than that has shown disdain for our Constitution. This issue extends from the White House to the Court House to the halls of Congress. Ignoring the problems (which are NOT being heralded by the media) only exacerbates the issue and further contributes to the dumbing down of our society. It is not ‘paranoid’ to note we have a Government that is scarily out of control right now - and we will not know who to elect unless we can clearly identify the problems and those causing them.
2)Positivism wins elections. This statement isn’t necessarily true. By the end of this administration or even during the mid-term elections, Americans are going to be hurting. Financially, we may be in ruins. We probably already are. We will finally have their attention. That is not the time to put on a Pollyanna sunshine smile and speak calming words to them while ‘ignoring the problems’. Rather, that is a time to speak frankly - America - you did this. You chose poorly during elections and elections have consequences. Your freedoms and your finances have been adversely effected by the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Frank, and poor choices in the Republican party for Congress. Assuming we get there, this may be their very last chance to right a wrong. Sober straightforward conversation is the prescription for what ails them. Followed by action at the voting booth and in life.
3)Only young people can steer the ship of state. I happen to be a younger person, and work on my end to see folks elected and communicate with my Congress critters when important issues come up. But, don’t write off the older generation either.
Obama kids went down to Florida to steer their grandparents into voting Obama. This is not because they lack influence in elections. Some of them actually come from the time period where critical thinking skills were still developed in schools. It may be the grandparents sitting down and talking to their grandchildren the next go around - and when little Johnny and Susie are finding that the jobless rate is through the roof and it is more and more difficult for them to get ahead - perhaps then they will listen.
Final note. When I first saw the list I posted I dismissed it as well. I thought “conspiracy kook stuff.” Then Lehman Brothers fell in September. That got my attention; and since then I have watched our government doing what can only be described as bankrupting itself ever since. It is February and we now have more debt owed than the entire world’s GDP. People around the US are talking Revolution. Legislation for more internment Camps has been drafted. If we look the other way and pretend this is not happening, then it won’t be three days of brief confinement we are facing. It will be the fall of the Republic.
Time is short. We need smart thinkers who can come up with a quick solution because 2010 may be too late.
No wonder you are paranoid, you took my simple post, put the worst possible and inaccurate spin to it and just made up your own little version, and then answered yourself.
I didn’t mention ignoring anything, instead I promoted activism in politics not paranoia masturbation and seeing how many times we can discuss black helicopters while elections are being won and lost.
I never mentioned having a “positive” attitude winning elections and being “pollyanish”, but instead of paranoia we need people that will take positive ACTIONS and win elections, we did all this in the early 90s when we got involved at the grass roots.
Gee I made a friendly reference to what I guessed was your youth, I never wrote off anybody including myself and half or more of FR.
Big deal you saw “the list” now go out and get someone elected, because the only solution is political, it isn’t stockpiling guns and our private discussions of how many black helicopters we saw this week.
This obsessive paranoia is going to get very boring as the years go by and many conservatives will get sucked into the John Birch Society type of uselessness as they start dropping out of participation in the electoral process.
It doesn’t hurt to remind those types that they need to keep some balance internally and not let themselves start thinking that the future is already decided and that we must drop out of mainstream politics and head for the hills.