According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll released Sunday, “Americans overwhelmingly believe that the government is broken.”
To me, the results of that poll mean that Americans are overwhelmingly wrong.
The problem is not one of leadership, nor is the problem one of broken government. The problem is followership; we have a broken citizenry.
U.S. citizens need to replace the issues within their interest – Tiger Woods, Angelina, Jane Fonda’s plastic surgery (just see almost every headline in the far right column of the web’s most popular politic site, The Huffington Post).
We the People need to change our focus to those issues that matter to the future of our nation. And We the People need to understand what our government and our political system is all about and why. Government will remain broken and we will lack leadership until the day when a far larger portion of the citizenry really understands these issues.
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The “broken Followship” problem is the result of a broken public school system that no longer teaches the basics for a successful life. But subtly indoctrinates our children to be good little socialist komrads, marching in lockstep and accepting without question any and all destructive leftist drivil feed to them.
How do you think Barack Obama got elected?
I think Obama got elected because Bush came in when we had peace and prosperity and by the time he was finished we were fighting two wars and were in the midst of the worst recession since World War II. You’d have to be pretty stupid not to realize that after the disasters on Bush’s watch, a lot of people wanted someone as different from Bush as possible.
At the CPAC conference last week Glenn Beck pointed out that we have two parties in this country. One is pretty clear on wanting bigger government and more spending. The other keeps saying they want the opposite, but when they were in power they proved that they were lying about that. So both parties want more spending and more government, but one party lies about it. Which choice seems better?
Henri/Paul/ROFI/Shanika/Collinwood/ Any more personalities in this freak show?
You forgot to mention 9-11…I know you’ve heard of it…Kinda changed EVERYTHING….But, I’m sure you hairdressers are all Truthers/Birthers/TaxDeniers …
November cannot come soon enough…
Harry Callahan is right…You are the product of the public school madrassa system…Dunber then stumps…
9/11 blah blah blah hairdressers blah blah blah socialism blah blah blah public schools blah blah blah misspelled words blah blah blah
Did I leave out anything?
Hen-ri/ Paul/ Rofi/All other Hairdressers
Yes you did…You forgot to blame Bush…
Speaking of blaming Bush, McCain is now saying he was tricked by Bush and Paulson into voting for the TARP bank bailout program in the fall of 2008.
I am so proud of McCain, who is now taking a firm stand against . . . himself.
He is going back on all the things he did earlier in his career because he’s terrified that the Tea Party folks will vote against him in the upcoming primary in Arizona!
He was in favor of closing Guantanamo. Not any more!
He was against offshore drilling. Not any more!
He was in favor of scrapping “Don’t Ask” if our military leaders said it was time. Not any more!
He said he would fight for campaign finance reform until his “dying breath.” Not any more!
What a hero!
Headline:
JOHN MCCAIN REPUDIATES 30 YEAR WASHINGTON CAREER – CLAIMS EVERYTHING HE DID WAS DUE TO HEAD INJURY HE RECEIVED IN VIETNAM
“But I’m fine now!” insists Arizona senator.
More crazy conspiracy theories about a socialist conspiracy twenty years after the Cold War ended. Just what America needs to move forward.
Skank ia
The battle rages on 24/7 against the corrupting forces…
The ColdWar has/had nothing to do with it..Seems like the old Commies rolled over and changed their name to Green Weenie Socialists preaching in the Church of GlobalWarming now “ClimateChange”…You must all be so proud…
It’s the mindset that BigGov’ment is good and Conservatives are evil…..You’re all part of the problem..All you hairdressers..
I sure am glad we have a bunch of silly old poops who are still yelling about communism twenty years after it disappeared. Without them, and with Conan off the air, what would we do for laughs?
It’s the commie nazis that are really a laugh-riot (if it weren’t so sad).
What have you got against hairdressers? I bet if you tried to go out in public without getting your hair done, you’d be grabbed by Animal Control and taken to the zoo!
At this moment, the most successful drivel being swallowed is from the right–really??! the American people are supposed to believe Obama is both ineffectual and ruining the country; he’s a socialist and a nazi; the USA of all the right-wing pundits’ childhoods were simpler and better (the Great Depression, The Civil Rights Era, even WWII were all halcion days of simplicity), while now that we have Obama as president we’re living in a nighmarish world where our ideals are being destroyed. Oh, and I forgot he wants to kill your grandma.
The problem is not that the children have been indoctrinated as socialists, it is, as RS said, that the US public has the attention span of a gnat and only are interested in scandal, sound-bites, and fear-mongering.
I just checked the Huffington Post, and the big story featured at the top of the page is about health care. I did not see anything about Jane Fonda or Tiger Woods on the top half of the page, what newspapers refer to as “above the fold,” where they place their most important stories.
I agree that people should focus on issues that are important to our nation, but I can’t blame them for turning away from stories on politics when those stories are about lies like death panels and socialism and not about anything real.
We live in a time in which our country attacked and invaded another country because our leaders told us about a threat from WMD that, we now know, never existed. In case someone yells at me for talking about “the past,” I will just point out that we still have an army of over 100,000 troops in that country because of the lies we were told. Can you really blame Americans for being cynical and turning away from what our leaders say and do after something like that? I can’t.
Note on your checking the Huffington Post — I wrote “just see almost every headline in the far right column.” Not above the fold. I disagree with most of the perspectives provided by HuffPost, however I consider it a must read. But the third column on the right is usually filled with fluff and that is that stuff that usually makes HuffPost’s most emailed list. That is what people want to read. We need more people to read and take apart the news. And yes, I know that I am preaching to the choir on that point as you all are very good about digging into current events.
To all historical re-writers and Econ 101 illiterates……
I miss President Bush every day. I miss his decency, his obvious loyalty to this country, his pride in the troops, his respect for his parents, his adoration of Laura, his respect for the office of the President, and his quiet strength when the gates of hell roared against him for eight years. I’m convinced that given enough time, historians will treat him fairly, especially as the “glow” of Mr Obama diminishes.
I never understood the constant attacks on him. He clearly made some errors, but was man enough to stand up to the decisions he did make.
Obama, on the other hand, needs to stand up and take his licks without the constant “blame the predecessor strategy” that people are tiring of.
I never understood the constant attacks on Bush either. Just because he attacked and invaded another country on false pretenses, causing hundreds of thousands of human beings to be killed or wounded, is no reason to criticize him, right?
The fact that Bush has all of this blood on his hands is more than made up for by the fact that he loved his parents and his wife. And I am sure that is a great comfort to all the parents and wives who lost their children or their husbands due to the “errors” that Bush made.
Like Navy Mom says, we should be thankful for Bush’s “pride in our troops.” And we should all be proud of the fine work he sent our troops to do in Iraq to protect us from a threat that never existed.
There is no more honorable thing than protecting our country from imaginary threats that exist only in the minds of politicians like Bush! And the Iraq war he started will go down in history as a tremendous example of political fraud and fakery!
He also exploded our deficit by waging this war without being honest with the American people about the cost, without raising taxes, and without asking for sacrifices from the majority of Americans. He told people to go shopping while our men and women were dying. So our debt margin, personal and national will be paid by our children.
Sensationalism. The problems with the media at large. Control and education. The shortage in demand.
Popular opinion’s bearing on personal lives is my problem, not the government. If common people could run their business without taking out a pound of flesh I wouldn’t be saying this.