[palo verde]

hi andysmom
I appreciate your ''rant''
I like hearing how others see things and I learned from your post
I placed perfect faith in George Bush, else I wouldn't have campaigned for him the way I did
I took it hard, when he chose to sweep the clinton corruption under carpet
I don't regret how idealistic I was
I like being idealistic
Love, Palo

[andysandmikesmom]

Its wonderful to be idealistic, but that idealism, to me anyway, must always be tempered with cynicism, and distrust...

BigDom trusts no one on faith alone.....people have to work hard to earn his trust, because he approaches those he does not know, with full cynicism...Sometimes I think that mistrust comes, because of having been abandoned by his mom when he was a baby...its something like, if you cannot trust your own mom, trusting others comes hard...

On the other hand, his cynicism is sometimes hard on him(tho self inflicted), because he would prefer that life in general and people in general, would conform to how he idealizes that the world should be....so he is often at odd with himself...

Never give up your idealism, but be ready to have it dumped on from time to time...for humans are imperfect, and do imperfect things...