I love Brian's post so much I want to have sex with it. I have to say, as far as Republicans go, Joe Scarborough has got to be better than most. He's already said he doesn't want the Republican party to be the 'stupid party.' So even though I disagree with him, he seems to be the type who's reasonable enough that if more followed his lead, we could accomplish more.
And I also agree that lack of education and information and simple understanding seems to be the root of so many of our problems. If you're intelligent and educated, you can figure out how to solve the problems we have. People who are paying attention to the real world instead of Faux News fantasy world will see that the real problems we face aren't facist governments trying to take over our lives (or that if there is a problem here, it is dwarfed by the problem that is unstable people going on shooting rampages). Intelligent people will also be intelligent enough to find a sensible solution to those problems once we know what the problems are.
I think a lot of the problem is who has the intelligence in our society. In this case, it's the puppeteers; the ones pulling the strings on the rest of us. They see what's happening, but they don't care because they have a vested financial interest in keeping us in this gun free for all. As far as Washington goes, if you want to know why certain groups stand for what the stand for, you don't usually have to do much more than follow the money. Trial lawyers opposed tort reform. Know why? Unions oppose right-to-work. Know why? Millionaires support low taxes for millionaires. Know why? The answer is the same for all three: they all stand to get more money if what they want goes through.
And I also agree that lack of education and information and simple understanding seems to be the root of so many of our problems. If you're intelligent and educated, you can figure out how to solve the problems we have. People who are paying attention to the real world instead of Faux News fantasy world will see that the real problems we face aren't facist governments trying to take over our lives (or that if there is a problem here, it is dwarfed by the problem that is unstable people going on shooting rampages). Intelligent people will also be intelligent enough to find a sensible solution to those problems once we know what the problems are.
I think a lot of the problem is who has the intelligence in our society. In this case, it's the puppeteers; the ones pulling the strings on the rest of us. They see what's happening, but they don't care because they have a vested financial interest in keeping us in this gun free for all. As far as Washington goes, if you want to know why certain groups stand for what the stand for, you don't usually have to do much more than follow the money. Trial lawyers opposed tort reform. Know why? Unions oppose right-to-work. Know why? Millionaires support low taxes for millionaires. Know why? The answer is the same for all three: they all stand to get more money if what they want goes through.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama