When you get right down to it keeping up with the Political Landscape in America is absolutely boring to a great many. Unless you are a political science major or one of the few people who are inexplicably drawn with every fiber of their being to the latest news, it is just not all that interesting. If you are a blogger you stand a better chance at an audience if you offer some advice on designing twitter backgrounds or a better way to get gum out of hair.
Once again, I have had to come to the hard realization that a great deal of Americans are not now, nor soon likely to become interested in Obama and his radical regime. Thomas Jefferson wrote some 230 years ago “…that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves…” and not much has changed. I heard another version of Jefferson’s wisdom years ago that went like this, “the pain that we feel is preferred to the pain that we fear”. In essence it seems that humans will tolerate much to avoid risking worse.
Having spent my complete existence studying human behavior, religion, philosophy and the like I continue to be amazed by above mentioned phenomenon. Still, there is that “flashpoint” just when oil becomes hot enough to the instantly burst into flames and a similar one for humans when they will rise to their feet an rebel against tyranny. While I see a great many Americans seriously concerned about the troubles of the days, I see a vast group that are so absorbed by their day to day lives that they cannot smell the smoke nor feel the heat of the flames engulfing them.
Recently I had the chance to ask some family members about what they thought of the State of the Union and what they knew about current important issues. Well there seemed to be little knowledge about what was going on and not any real concern that anything was all that amiss. My attempts to draw attention to issues of concern seemed to do more to prove my insanity than to educate. I believe that I may have actually caused them to question the validity of what I was trying to say. Fair enough. Declaring that you think Obama has full intentions to remake this nation into something of his choosing does sound a bit extreme. Still, I was left with the impression that whatever happened would be fine and did not merit them looking into it.
Needless to say I walked away from that conversation less that gratified and even a little offended that my opinion carried so little weight. I hadn’t be push or sanctimonious and tried to present fact with verifiable sources. Yet, I failed to make any noticeable difference and do not expect that they will be of any help on Election Day. But, do not misunderstand. I don’t think these folks abnormal but rather quite normal. The storm troopers boots will have to hit their front porches before they sound the alarm; if even then. As for me, I continue on: amazed.
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Ken, you are prescient. Just tonight on Hannity he had a focus group and this one woman who kept extolling the virtues of socialism, (without calling it that, of course) actually said of John Corzine that he may raise taxes, but at least you knew what you were getting. Another candidate might be worse…
*dies*
I mean how much farther does one have to have their head in the sand?
On a related note, I feel your pain. My sister is a liberal – she is the same age as Clinton and so she kept her hippy liberal ideals. When I asked her what she thought about Obama, she said he was probably the best President ever elected…
When I asked her about his astronomical spending, she said it was all for things we need, so it is okay.
Then she said that Obama would be a better President than Carter was because poor Carter never got a chance to be a great President.
At that point, I gave up and decided to do something more productive. I went outside and hit my head against a brick wall about 10 times. It hurt just as much, but was over with faster.
Yeah, it’s hard sometimes. I try to let footage and quotes do the talking for me. I remember visiting my family early in October. I got them to watch Hannity when he was breaking the Kevin Jennings story. When they saw what he actually said, their jaws dropped! These are folks that have been generally socially conservative, but economically more liberal. They had no idea what the czars were all about.
I occasionally show my videos of the POTUS extolling single payer to my friends. They’re still libs, but they are questioning. The realization that they’re being lied to seems to take the wind out of their sails.
I think that the frustration is understandable, but we have to understand that there are people out there that make their political judgments based on soundbites and will never really delve into issues and policy. We are on one side of an ideological battle with the left. They are smaller, but still more vocal and organized. That is changing. Between us is the middle. The middle will be swayed either way, and don’t tend to make stands on many issues. It is what it is. We have to remember that only a small fraction of the population took part in our original revolution. This new revolution will be peaceful (excepting the violence of the left), and it doesn’t require the whole of the people to participate-just patriots.
Thanks for the comments and encouragement. In my everyday world I see an undercurrent of conservativism as strong as any Sunami the world has yet seen. It is my hope and expectation that on election day 2010 a cleansing of Congress will take place. I believe the first signs of that storm are appearing in New York, New Jersey and Virginia. Out with the bad and in with the good. It is my hope.
Speaking of New Jersey, Corzine actually grew up 5 miles from where I live. He graduated from the High School my teens attend. Then, he went to Chicago…
’nuff said.
Ken, this is a lot of the problem. So many people don’t know and don’t CARE what’s going on. This is the reason why statists have been able to stay in office and get their vomitous anti-life, anti-liberty agenda pushed.