Think Like Us . . . Or Else
Posted: Monday, April 27, 2009
by Michael Ramzy
delusionthread.com
Another great day in America and we find ourselves wondering if an illness named after a pig (no, not Babe) will bring us down. Interesting, the things we think.
We Americans are still wondering why things are the way they are these days, or more specifically, if things really are the way they seem. The following is what we seem to be wondering about, according to the news:
Specifically, what to do with the terrorists (alleged, of course) detained by the United States. Mr. Bush threw them into a cage in Cuba and Mr. Obama campaigned on the promise of their release. The only problem is, what to do with them? The only country willing to take any of them is France (of all places), who will take one. Wow.
The far left in this country, of course, manufacture their fake outrage-on-demand that the terrorists (alleged, of course) are not free and in this case nothing seems to be able to change the president's mind. Of course, we could always send them all down here to Texas and give them a proper welcome.
The latest rage is to find out who ordered the waterboarding and hold them accountable. Nice. Good luck with that one. You cannot tell me those on Capitol Hill knew nothing about any of this, and you sure can't sell the fiction that all of this is one party's fault. But, as I said, good luck with that.
Gay MarriageWhy this is an issue to begin with boggles my mind, which really bothers me since I usually can figure something out. Also, as an aside, if you have never had your mind boggled, it can be frustrating. Anyway, this is an issue because a sliver of the population (less than 1%) wants to have a civil union and wants all the states to accept that.
Well, that's not exactly true as civil unions (or some variation to include benefits) are already legal (or soon will be) in most of America. This sliver of the population want the word Marriage, apparently. Now, forget everything you have ever been taught and just pick up a dictionary and you will have a boggled mind.
Tolerance and Intolerance
This is in the news with regard to just about everything in the news. We as Americans are supposed to be tolerant of pretty much everything, which many of us can do. There are some things we won't tolerate, of course, and those times when we speak our minds we are sometimes slapped down. The right of this country is almost as guilty in this as the left. You can be a Miss USA contestant who practices free speech by speaking what the majority of the country believes, and suddenly you are a pariah. And yet, you can call the tea party protesters racists (Janine Garafalo on Keith Olbermann) and get a pass.
This happens because the far-left of this country (and don't kid yourself, the far-right as well) is the most intolerant. Their mantra is: agree with me or you are a racist, bigot, ignoramus, etc. The arrogance of these people cannot be understated in that they are the ones trying to drive America over the edge, they are the ones who believe (kind of) what they believe and hate you for using the words 'moral' or 'ethical'. If you don't agree Bush killed millions of Iraqis, you are lying to yourself. If you didn't vote for Obama you are racist. If you disagree with anything they take as their cause of the day, you are unfeeling and uncaring. If you want a strong, cohesive America, you are an isolationist. If you don't agree with some of the Bill of Rights (not all of them, of course), you are unpatriotic.
The list goes on, of course. Tolerance means to tolerate, to put up with something you might not otherwise agree with for the sake of harmony. I tolerate these loons on the far-left and far-right because they, in a way, create the middle, the real America. The America that believes in the harmony of a nation and not one particular group at the expense of everyone else.
So. Think what you think, believe what you believe. Live up to everything you truly believe in. I love debate and we have many things to debate about. Yet do not come to that debate armed with a gun to point to my head or a burning car and smashed window at a protest. If you have to resort to lies and violence to convince me, I will oppose you even more.
If you cannot convince me with your mind and your words, you cannot convince me.
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