[Pukin Dog]

I don't agree.

The reason, is that people like you and me pay way more attention to this stuff than your average citizen. Most people in this country are Conservative in nature, if not affiliation.

Politics frankly, is our drug, as much as our morning coffee. We live and breath this stuff, and so do our enemies on the other side of the aisle. Our focus skews our perspective, which is why I like to just stop FReeping and watching TV sometimes, just to get an understanding of what other people are actually thinking about.

While we are worried about all this political garbage, most people are worried about gas prices and mortgages. Fewer and fewer people watch any kind of news at all, and really are getting their news from the Daily Show, Leno and Letterman, until the campaign season really takes off.

Political junkies like us ramp all news up way out of proportion. Most people don't think Republicans are bigoted, nor do they think Liberals hate America. Most people would rather we not talk about our interests at dinner, either.

The best advice I ever got was when Rush said, "just turn off the TV every now and then for a week, and discover a whole different world you never knew existed".

It really is true. We worry way too much about what those rascally liberals are doing. IMHO, they are stupid people who don't know they are stupid. We should leave them to their own devices, and just hide the sharp stuff from them, like you would an infant.

[Txsleuth]

Great post...and good advice, PD!

I think turning off the TV and stepping away from FR would be MUCH harder for me than quitting smoking cold turkey ten years ago was....LOL

I went shopping one day last week....no TV and no FR for most of the day...and in the evening I felt totally out of the loop and uncomfortable..that something had happened that I missed out on...(I know, I have it BAD).

[samantha]

I watch maybe 10 percent of what I used to politically. I get out where the People are, and can see the damage that has been done, not just by Political Programs, and the DBM. Read the Editorial page of the Newspaper in my Conservative Community and read the rants about Bush/Cheney, anything Republican or Conservative, look at the Cartoons, slanted way to the left. I think you have underestimated the news media Bias that has taken over all over the Country. They put People into these Newspapers that are Liberals where before the Conservatives ran the Papers in small Communities. They had a plan and they implemented their plan and we have to undo the damage. I do not even ask the people I meet what their Party is, nor is it my Business. These are nice People that do not like Pubbies because they have been brainwashed by the DBM plan. They are so shocked to learn that we do great things in the Community, and we do not want to kill old people we help them. Maybe you should go to some Yard sales and where Women meet, you would see how Republican has become a dirty word. What you see is totally the opposite of what I see.