Thank you for clarifying your post, well said.
It wasn’t just your post - yours was a jumping off point for me. I’ve actually been here since 1998, but I forgot my original screen name and reregistered in 2000. Been around for a lot of stuff here. I’m glad I was on DSL and off dialup during the recount, otherwise my phone bill would have approached the national debt level.
My point is, there have been a LOT of posts of pledges to do one thing or another based on our feelings, usually frustration, anger, betrayal and rage. That’s fine. But an emotion does not require that we act on it when acting under its influence means that we do something that is not ultimately the right thing to do.
And this coming from a fairly emotional woman.
But one thing I learned in my flight training back during the mid-90s was that I could feel whatever I wanted, but if I got too high or too low, I’d have to put that emotion in my pocket and feel it when I got on the ground.
My first instructor was a Marine, and the second served in Gulf War I in choppers. I trust that advice, and it’s never gotten me into trouble. I implore my fellow Freepers to consider that advice, and do what’s right for the country - LONG TERM - when the tide of the anger has withdrawn some.
Thanks.
(Damn, those Loyalists are pissing me off! Might as well let the Redcoats have their way. They’re going to win anyway. / s)
Good night folks.
Faulty analogy. The Patriots relatively quickly (and rightly) resorted to ball and powder rather than concede their ideals. We're still dealing with diplomacy.
I think most peoples’ reasons are based in logic rather than emotion. We know McCain’s history, his voting record, his betrayals. Logically we cannot trust him. The fact that he’s kept doing this stuff has also made people hate him, but it is not an illogical hate. It is a hate that is deserved. But hate isn’t what was there first. People are against him for real logical reasons, the hate stems from the reasons, but it’s the logical reasons that force people to reject him.