I read the columns & blogs of both left wing and right wing writers every day. Frankly, it gets confusing.
As the old saying goes, I was born a liberal, but became educated and became a Conservative. There used to be a different ending: ...and I will die a Conservative...
Because of the mess our political system is in right now, it's hard to take an educated, thoughtful stand. Note, I said educated and thoughtful.
Today, America has "hard Liberalism", "hard Conservatisim", Libertarians, Tea Parties, and God knows now many subversive groups who cry "anarchy" at every street corner.
Hard Liberalism is now the "Ubber-Left", and Hard Conservatism is the "Ubber-Right". OK, I understand that, and you can read my early posts to see how I define those groups for my own sanity. Sometimes I question my beliefs. It's a good thing to do, because that's how one grows. Not my "core beliefs" which I may modify from time to time for better clarity. If you don't strive to clarify your beliefs, then over time you become spiritually separated from yourself. Ref: the born/died saying above. We change as we grow and we define and redefine our values, our purpose.
For instance, I think it would be reasonable to define teenagers values and goals as those requiring a salt-peter patch about the size of a dinner plate. Not all teenagers, of course. Some had powerful parental influence and acquired their parents/extended family values. This doesn't mean they don't rebel when they reach college age. But, their rebellion appears to be in line with those early learned family values.
Now, though, America is polarized. Our college and even high school aged children are being force fed Ubber-Liberalism, fed through a 5 inch fire hose. Why is that? Kids leaving home want to "be free", and rebellion should be no more that making ones own choices, and enjoying or suffering through the consequences of doing so.
But, the anarchists who are slowly taking over our school systems are becoming more and more defined as poster children (adults, actually) of terror, hatred, violence, and, sadly, confused thinking. Some do little harm and make it safely past our corrupt education system, but many do not. They form little sub-terrorist groups that burn construction sites, car dealerships, and other, what they discribe as symbols of corruption and "capitalism" (there's that "C" word, again).
These little babies forget that it was Capitalism that brought them their nice cars, nice clothes, Ipods, Ipads, Laptops, etc. It is Capitalism that grants them access to well paying careers. Think not? Travel down to Cuba and talk to the Phd's, the doctors, lawyers, etc. that make an average of $400/month, if they are lucky enough to even work in their chosen professions. Is this the society you really want? Remember all that hate and animosity you spit out at Conservatives? They are simply attempting to protect the very way of life you now enjoy. But, hey, if you really want Communism as a way of life, then emegrate to Cuba, or Venezuela, or China. You can do that, you know. Then, let's see what happens when you start spouting off about the issues those citizens have to deal with. Oh, I forgot, doing so may result in your early death. But, at least you will have died while living in a country whose leaders embrace the kind of life you long for, right? Because these countries are also socialistic, you'd even get a free cremation (burial is much too expensive).
I am beginning to realize that there is a small portion of our population that simply gets off on HATE. They hate everything!: School, Conservatives, Sara Palin (???), their jobs, "the system" (whatever the hell THAT means), Whities, Righties, etc, etc, ad nauseum. But, this IS America, and you can do that. It's boring. It keeps you from growing as an individual. It stunts your spiritual growth (oops, sorry, I forgot, you hate God, too).
The above group also tends to be wildly naive when it comes to running anything, from a family to a state, to a Federal economy. Why? Because they are stuck in the stupid belief that all they have to do is sit on their collective behinds and demand stuff and it will suddenly appear, right next to them (remember, they are sitting on their lazy behinds). It's true! The Ubber-Left wingers tell them it's true, so it must be.
We currently have a mad man; a crazy idealogue, who has convinced himself that, he is indeed an American Citizen, when he will not produce his father's birth certificate application; who believes he is a grand potentate because he: recklessly spends taxpayer dollars on hundreds of campaigning trips that are advertisers as "getting to know the people of America better", who sends himself and his family on lavish vacations at taxpayer expense, who plays coach as other countries fall into anarchy; who plays basketball as our allies are threatened; who decides erroneously that HE can arbitrarily decide what laws are to be defended; who decides that he doesn't need a Cabinet (at least one he actually meets with or speaks with); who "hangs out" with criminals, thugs, past anarchists and murderers...oh, I can go on a long, long time.
Remember that peanut farmer nutcase? He went around giving away American possessions while his closest advisors were "robbing the bank". When asked (rarely), he simply brushed the questions off as being beneath him. Well, we've got another maniac in thye White House who's even more damaging to this great country. If young people would simply start looking at what he does, vs what he says, they'd realize that this man HATES America! He's got a bone to pick with this country, and he lied through his teeth, supported by, get this RICH, no SUPER RICH anarchists and terrorists, who also want to destroy the very base beliefs on which this country is founded.
Hey, do you hear me? I said RICH Anarchists, and Terrorists. What are you thinking? You, dummy, profess to HATE THE RICH! Oh, not all the rich. If some rich people also hate America, then that's OK with you. See why I'm confused? I'm confused by how you are acting, confused. That tells me that you have been force fed this gibberish since, when, high school? You are acting out, like robots who are melting down. Neither rhyme nor reason to your actions, just HATE, HATE, HATE.
What? You say you don't want to move to those Communist or Socialist countries? Where, then will you move when America is destroyed and turned into a Socialist country is there is no money to pay your schooling (oh, your children's schooling); your housing (because you will be receiving about 25% if your paycheck...the rest goes to pay taxes to support, well, Communism/Socialism.
As the old saying goes, I was born a liberal, but became educated and became a Conservative. There used to be a different ending: ...and I will die a Conservative...
Because of the mess our political system is in right now, it's hard to take an educated, thoughtful stand. Note, I said educated and thoughtful.
Today, America has "hard Liberalism", "hard Conservatisim", Libertarians, Tea Parties, and God knows now many subversive groups who cry "anarchy" at every street corner.
Hard Liberalism is now the "Ubber-Left", and Hard Conservatism is the "Ubber-Right". OK, I understand that, and you can read my early posts to see how I define those groups for my own sanity. Sometimes I question my beliefs. It's a good thing to do, because that's how one grows. Not my "core beliefs" which I may modify from time to time for better clarity. If you don't strive to clarify your beliefs, then over time you become spiritually separated from yourself. Ref: the born/died saying above. We change as we grow and we define and redefine our values, our purpose.
For instance, I think it would be reasonable to define teenagers values and goals as those requiring a salt-peter patch about the size of a dinner plate. Not all teenagers, of course. Some had powerful parental influence and acquired their parents/extended family values. This doesn't mean they don't rebel when they reach college age. But, their rebellion appears to be in line with those early learned family values.
Now, though, America is polarized. Our college and even high school aged children are being force fed Ubber-Liberalism, fed through a 5 inch fire hose. Why is that? Kids leaving home want to "be free", and rebellion should be no more that making ones own choices, and enjoying or suffering through the consequences of doing so.
But, the anarchists who are slowly taking over our school systems are becoming more and more defined as poster children (adults, actually) of terror, hatred, violence, and, sadly, confused thinking. Some do little harm and make it safely past our corrupt education system, but many do not. They form little sub-terrorist groups that burn construction sites, car dealerships, and other, what they discribe as symbols of corruption and "capitalism" (there's that "C" word, again).
These little babies forget that it was Capitalism that brought them their nice cars, nice clothes, Ipods, Ipads, Laptops, etc. It is Capitalism that grants them access to well paying careers. Think not? Travel down to Cuba and talk to the Phd's, the doctors, lawyers, etc. that make an average of $400/month, if they are lucky enough to even work in their chosen professions. Is this the society you really want? Remember all that hate and animosity you spit out at Conservatives? They are simply attempting to protect the very way of life you now enjoy. But, hey, if you really want Communism as a way of life, then emegrate to Cuba, or Venezuela, or China. You can do that, you know. Then, let's see what happens when you start spouting off about the issues those citizens have to deal with. Oh, I forgot, doing so may result in your early death. But, at least you will have died while living in a country whose leaders embrace the kind of life you long for, right? Because these countries are also socialistic, you'd even get a free cremation (burial is much too expensive).
I am beginning to realize that there is a small portion of our population that simply gets off on HATE. They hate everything!: School, Conservatives, Sara Palin (???), their jobs, "the system" (whatever the hell THAT means), Whities, Righties, etc, etc, ad nauseum. But, this IS America, and you can do that. It's boring. It keeps you from growing as an individual. It stunts your spiritual growth (oops, sorry, I forgot, you hate God, too).
The above group also tends to be wildly naive when it comes to running anything, from a family to a state, to a Federal economy. Why? Because they are stuck in the stupid belief that all they have to do is sit on their collective behinds and demand stuff and it will suddenly appear, right next to them (remember, they are sitting on their lazy behinds). It's true! The Ubber-Left wingers tell them it's true, so it must be.
We currently have a mad man; a crazy idealogue, who has convinced himself that, he is indeed an American Citizen, when he will not produce his father's birth certificate application; who believes he is a grand potentate because he: recklessly spends taxpayer dollars on hundreds of campaigning trips that are advertisers as "getting to know the people of America better", who sends himself and his family on lavish vacations at taxpayer expense, who plays coach as other countries fall into anarchy; who plays basketball as our allies are threatened; who decides erroneously that HE can arbitrarily decide what laws are to be defended; who decides that he doesn't need a Cabinet (at least one he actually meets with or speaks with); who "hangs out" with criminals, thugs, past anarchists and murderers...oh, I can go on a long, long time.
Remember that peanut farmer nutcase? He went around giving away American possessions while his closest advisors were "robbing the bank". When asked (rarely), he simply brushed the questions off as being beneath him. Well, we've got another maniac in thye White House who's even more damaging to this great country. If young people would simply start looking at what he does, vs what he says, they'd realize that this man HATES America! He's got a bone to pick with this country, and he lied through his teeth, supported by, get this RICH, no SUPER RICH anarchists and terrorists, who also want to destroy the very base beliefs on which this country is founded.
Hey, do you hear me? I said RICH Anarchists, and Terrorists. What are you thinking? You, dummy, profess to HATE THE RICH! Oh, not all the rich. If some rich people also hate America, then that's OK with you. See why I'm confused? I'm confused by how you are acting, confused. That tells me that you have been force fed this gibberish since, when, high school? You are acting out, like robots who are melting down. Neither rhyme nor reason to your actions, just HATE, HATE, HATE.
What? You say you don't want to move to those Communist or Socialist countries? Where, then will you move when America is destroyed and turned into a Socialist country is there is no money to pay your schooling (oh, your children's schooling); your housing (because you will be receiving about 25% if your paycheck...the rest goes to pay taxes to support, well, Communism/Socialism.