On my daily commute to work I listen to a few of the news and talk radio stations on XM in my car; I try to spread it around so I can stay balanced on the issues. I prefer Fox News but only because I like their format better than others. I also listen to America Right and America Left. A wise person once told me that the extreme right and left are pretty much the same in their beliefs, they just don't see it. I think its because they have or at least display hatred for each other. Why is this? You can't blame it all on the media for how they report things; it's the politicians, media and individual people who promote and generate this hatred for each other.
I have been saying to my close friends for years that we're in a civil war in this country. It's not a civil war in the sense that shots are being fired and people are dying. It's a civil war of hatred, words and actions. Democrats and Republicans, Left and Right are destroying this country with the partisanship they are promoting. The Left is degrading, insulting and demoralizing anyone who is opposed to their viewpoint on current issues and agendas. The Right was just as guilty when they were in power. Each side is so busy trying to promote their ideology they refuse to hear any other position.
I personally believe that once elected officials take office, they should no longer be considered a Democrat or Republican but rather an American representing a designated population. They are charged with representing the people of their district, not their political party. They are required to vote on items the way the people of their district feel, even if they personally disagree with the majority of their constituents. Was that not the original intent of our form of government representation? Any American Government experts reading this, please educate me if I'm wrong.
I'll get down from my soap box for now. Thanks for reading, feel free to comment with your thoughts.
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I grow disenchanted with the system myself. As I learn more about history and government, it seems as though our nation is shaped by people that leverage whatever power they have to promote their interest, or that of their faction. In spite of this, we have in many ways turned out somewhat civilized...I credit this to a patient and loving God, and wonder when our chickens will come home to roost. I am cynical about the possibility of elected representatives suddenly behaving honorably, en masse. I would love to see some of our breakthroughs in information technology applied to the democratic process in new ways. I am uneducated, and perhaps too ignorant to understand the impracticalities involved, But I would think a few heads wiser than myself could come a way for government to be more direct, and less representative. connection in large communities is becoming widespread (but necesarily shallow)with people having ten or eleven hundred myspace buddies. I wonder with InfoTech at its current level, How large of a virtual town meeting could you have?
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