tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post5180884908697848920..comments2023-03-18T06:31:13.168-05:00Comments on Go Sit In The Corner: Mid-term elections, 2006AGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241567321225195878noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-58305366483144099882006-11-17T14:00:00.000-06:002006-11-17T14:00:00.000-06:00Unfortunately, those people, the ones who think cr...<i>Unfortunately, those people, the ones who think creatively, logically and morally are busy creating fulfilling lives for their families and have no interest in sinking into the sewer of politics.</i><br />Certainly, not everyone who can do those three things has time-consuming family obligations, but for those who do, the scale at which change can be enacted may be more modest. <br /><br />Your second point brings up something else: our political system self-selects for a certain personality that already has or desires a certain lifestyle - it's built to maintain the status quo. Is it time for a different political system? Are Americans interested in that? <br /><br /><i>The cloak of political correctness has strangled independent thought. Only when PCness is thrown out the window will change occur.</i><br />If I could propose that it isn't PC that has strangled independent thought (it has strangled some of its expression, for better and for worse), but the sensationalism attached to partisan attacks and that the media propagates. When EVERY minor event is so overblown and re-played for us day after day for ratings or political gain, the proper scale of the event, its significance in orientation to other events, becomes so completely off kilter that independent thought is stifled sheerly through inability to analyze in context, with facts, the events as they happen. That creates its own frustration.AGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11241567321225195878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-43098870228246856122006-11-16T21:42:00.000-06:002006-11-16T21:42:00.000-06:00Another comment. I agree the 60's mentallity is cr...Another comment. I agree the 60's mentallity is creating much of the problems between parties. The fools of that decade are now many of the politicians in power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-24759566143901804462006-11-16T21:32:00.000-06:002006-11-16T21:32:00.000-06:00Yes, we need passionate engagement by people with ...Yes, we need passionate engagement by people with novel ideas. Unfortunately, those people, the ones who think creatively, logically and morally are busy creating fulfilling lives for their families and have no interest in sinking into the sewer of politics.<br />And I think citizens are sick to death of the partisanship and are pushing for some sanity. I am upset about the elections but cannot get too worked up myself. The cloak of political correctness has strangled independent thought. Only when PCness is thrown out the window will change occur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com