Posted on 01/13/2011 9:12:42 PM PST by SaraJohnson
My husband and I were talking tonight and that is always a good thing because he is smart as a whip and to the point and I always learn from him when he opens up. He rarely engages me in political talk because I am basically "too involved" in his opinion. That usually means I know more than he knows about politics.
Anyway, he brought up how odd it was to see clapping and cheering at the memorial service last night. In fact, he had to stop watching the "show" because it upset him too much. It broke his heart to see Americans acting like low class idiots enmass. We rarely watch television and even more rare that we watch it together unless it is a movie we are sharing.
Then he began talking about the polarized political atmosphere in America. He felt it was as bad or even worse than the Viet Nam days. He wondered out loud why everyone did not understand what caused all the anger over the health care leglislation. He still has a misplaced respect and trust in the "mainstream" media, expecting them to at least go though the motions of acting as a press in a Democratic Republic.
He said: They did not discuss and debate the leglislation like they usually do in panels on television and in newspaper editorials. He, as an American, missed not hearing everyone's point of view concerning the proposed leglislation and understanding the details of the leglislation. When liberals decided to keep the bill secret right through the vote, he said it was no wonder Americans because frantically angry and upset. That is not the way our government has ever worked before in his time on earth.
His conclusion: When people feel they have no input and no influence on elected leaders (no Democracy), they feel hopeless and angry. It is liberals who caused this anger at town hall meetings because they totally ignored the democratic process and made Americans feel as if they were living under a careless and brainless third world dictatorship.
He is so right. It is liberals who caused the rage of the Tea Party by doing what they did - hiding that bill from the public and even Congressional inspection and debate and voting on it against the will of the people, as proven by likely voter polls. They did not show the public the respect of even presenting it to them for examination and debate.
The energy of the Tea Party was like the freight train meeting the freight train of the elitist liberals ramming through that leglislation which will effect the lives of every American.
If politicans want to see more public rage and it's ensuing danger to their precious lives, they need to keep up the elitism that tells them there is no need to solicit the "stupid" American public's input on legislation and governance. They think the peaceful, abet angry, Tea Party protests were bad! It really can and will get much worse if the liberals keep up the dictatorship illusion of their radical Marxist ideology.
Finally, when our elected officials really need to worry is when the people are too intimidated by the Left's use of the FBI to participate in government as happened to Republican Billy Long of Montana.
If liberals ever managed to keep the lid on a steaming pot of public interaction with our government through police intimidation, elected leaders will be inviting interaction by another means whether we all want it or not. There are not enough FBI agents and body guards to protect them from the public reaction to a dictatorship. This is not a bannana republic population to fit Obama's bannana republic attitude and methods.
Liberals and their friends across the aisle have the power to make Homeland Security's smear of Americans as all dangerous potential terrorists a reality by continuing to oppress and sideline the democratic process. Americans don't make for compliant subjects.
Because I do not desire political violence, I hope the attempted crackdown on Amerians being created by the Democrats through FBI shake downs, fails to shut anyone up or curtail their lawful political and social expression. Please, no steam building up under police state pressure in the melting pot! They will fail at this if we just continue on as if they don't have the power to shut us up. Because they don't!
It will take many years for the freaks to forget the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Everything has been about revenge since that moment.
[He also never sees dust balls on the floor. NEVER.]
lol
Tried to sway the results of the 2000 election by calling Florida early for Gore.
Ripped the country apart trying to steal the 2000 election for Gore.
Brainwashed many in the country that Bush was basically a criminal.
Has no interest in investigating the cause of the economic collapse since it will implicate Democrats.
Heavily promoted a strange, angry figure with no experience for President as the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Does all it can to blame the Tucson shooting on Palin, then blames Palin for inserting herself into the mess.
[I didn’t take a real interest in politics until my children were born.
I’d like them to have the country I was raised in, to grow up knowing freedom and loving it]
This is my greatest concern. It sickens me to imagine them doing otherwise.
Obviously the blind and insane hatred for Dubya is the most recent example.
Yes, talk about having the power to intrude into every aspect of our lives. I think we are about to see that up close and personal and not only in the dismantling of our health care system.
Obama and the global warmist pals on both sides of the aisle are limiting our supply of oil so that prices skyrocket. They stepped up the use of corn for fuel and that, combined with bad weather taking out crops and meat around the world, has the globe and the US headed for a food crisis. We can expect sky rocketing prices and shortages.
I think the rising cost of food and fuel will cause our economy to collapse. This kind of event could lead to a world war. But even without a war, this crisis could kill a whole bunch of souls around the world.
cool!
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