Political Logic 101

I am so tired of lies and distortion in politics. It happens on both sides, but primarily on the Democrat side. (They are the Democrat party. They are not the democratic party. Words mean things.) I watch Fox News Sunday and Meet The Press. I read the Des Moines Register. I listen to Rush Limbaugh. I watch both CNN and Fox News. I occasionally watch CNBC. I do lots of reading online. It's really very simple to get the truth just by listening and doing your own research. You have to be an idiot to take all of your news from one source. You have to be an idiot to be a sheep when it comes to how the world works and how your leaders act. If you don't vote, if you don't take active participation in your community, if you don't do your own research instead of just taking the newspaper or TV reporter's word for it, you are an idiot and you have no right to comment on political and world events. It's that simple.

That doesn't mean you have to agree. I have friends that I disagree with about most everything, but we can agree to disagree and still be friends. It's not hard to do. You just have to understand that you can't change others. You can only change yourself. We can all still find common ground.

There are some very simple things that we can all understand. We elect our leaders. If we lose, we try again at the next election cycle. When we lose, we have to realize that the majority will get their way. There are only so many ways to gum up the works, but it comes down to the majority to lead as they see fit while they are in the majority. We had over 40 years that Democrats were the majority and now they are the minority. Logic dictates that they had their time in the sun and now the people have spoken and want the Republicans to have their day in the sun. Is it an overwhelming majority? No, but it is the majority. If you don't like it, change it in the next election. Take your ideas to others in your community and try to build those ideas from the ground up. Logic 101.

First of all, give the judges an up or down vote when they reach the Senate floor. If they can't make it out of committee, tough. Once they do make it out of committee, give them a vote. There has never been a filibuster of judges on the Senate floor before. It has been attempted, but defeated. The Constitution charges the Senate to advise and consent. In reality, no vote is needed. The President just needs 51 letters of consent from the Senate and then the judge takes their position. It's really that simple and there isn't anything left to debate about it. I know Howard Dean would like to think that the parties should share power or that there should be some sort of minority rights, but that isn't the way our government is set up. If you want it changed, then get a grassroots effort together and work at changing it. Otherwise, shut up already.

I don't know how anyone can't see that Social Security doesn't need fixing. Since when did it become government's job to provide for our retirement? This isn't a right listed in the Constitution. It's a hand out. It doesn't work like people think. The idea would be that you pay into it, it gains interest, when you retire you get what was set aside plus the interest. If you didn't put anything into it, why should you get anything out of it? If you didn't put much into it, why should you get more out of it than you put into it? If you put a lot into it, shouldn't you get it all back? Oh, I'm sorry. That sounds like it's your money to begin with! Gee, what a concept! You work. You make money. Oh, and then someone else tells you how it needs to be spent or saved. Are we such idiots that we can't figure that out for ourselves? Oh, and if you don't mind and you aren't the idiot, what gives you the right to say others are idiots and have to have it taken from them so someone supposedly smarter can tell them how to spend it? How arrogant! Why don't we make sure we are teaching economics in school instead of how to put a condom on a cucumber and make sure that people are equipped to make their own decisions? Oh, more logic 101.

Since when did America become the bad guy? We go over and liberate Afghanistan and Iraq and then the media portrays us as people that flush pages of the Koran down the toilet or let a woman soldier put an Iraqi man on a leash. I'm sorry that bad things happen in war, but isnt' that what war is? It's a bad thing. It's sometimes a necessary thing. We teach our soldiers to kill people and break things. That is what an army is for. America has spread democracy to more nations than any other. America gives more than any other. Americans give more than others. We are the most charitable nation. We are the only nation with the ability to assist others such as Iraq and Afghanistan. We bring in other nations to assist us in accomplishing these goals. So why are we the bad guy? Why aren't our allies portrayed as bad guys with us? If we are so bad, why are so many people trying to get into our country and enjoy our freedoms? Simply put, we are a great nation and a great country. We are not the bad guy. Those who oppress their own people are bad guys. They must be taken out and their people freed. Logic 101.

I know not everyone agrees and that's ok. It's really ok that we don't all agree. It doesn't mean we can't be friends and find other common ground. I'm glad I enjoy the freedoms I have and I hope that others around the world are able to enjoy freedom. Freedom to speak your mind. Freedom to spend your money how you see fit. Freedom to have ideas and enter them into the realm of ideas. Freedom to worship. Freedom to carry a Bible with you in a school. Freedom to pray at any time anywhere. Freedom to let your communities, instead of some governmental body many states away, decide what is best in your area. Freedom to listen to the music you want. Freedom to own property. Freedom to vote for your leaders. Freedom is a great thing. Pass it on!