Let's Think Together
Where are they .....
Published on February 25, 2007 By ThinkAloud In Politics
I find myself supporting liberal politicians then I hate them when they are in office. Then I support conservative capitalist politicians then I hate them when they are in office. I must be crazy or confused. But is it really me?

When strange things happen from people, my wife says it is the LAW ...... I say what law? She says God’s law. She is never able to tell me how that is. But she keeps saying that every time I go crazy about something strange happening from people i thought sane.

It seems that every politician is conspiring against the way i want to live my life. And ...and they have lots of supporters against me.

I want to smoke, yes I do. And I like it and enjoy it. it is a bad habit, i know that. but i don’t like beer and I hate the way it smells, like urine Ughhh, do I demand that people stop drinking beer? But they not just ask me to stop smoking, they order me to. in the office and the building and in the restaurants (even in bars for God's sake) and in the airport and in the plane , for 12 hrs mind you. Over-weight humans cost the health care system more than smokers do. Do politicians order them to shape up? Steak’n cake overeating people cost the economy more than smokers do. Do politicians order them to lighten up on the steak’n cake binge. And they think that is social curtsey and responsible behavior.

I also want to drink clean water, from the tap not from a bottle i buy. i hate bottled water, it is tasteless and it feels like i am sooo hip and cool. but i am not. I am just your average farmer's son who knows that water from the good earth tastes sooooo sweet and actually makes your thirst go away. But they pollute rivers and wells and they say that is capitalists' freedom to decide how to run their businesses.

I don't want to hear foul language on radio and TV, they support FAMILY VALUES and they remove regulations which were there to protect those same values. I don’t mind a funny reference here and there to private human body parts or to natural human activities but vulgar language puts me off and takes the funniness (or the seriousness) out of the dialogue. They say it is taking out the government off my back, but they put nastiness over it.

I don’t want to know people's sex orientation; I don’t want them to know mine either. but they say this is depriving people of their freedom. How is that? Why do I MUST know that some people have different desires than mine? Why do I have to accept that information? They equalize that to color orientation or gender orientation or religious orientation or ethnic orientation. That is when i get mad. is there no sense in evaluating values anymore?

I really get sooo upset when i see a baby or a small child suffer anything, even if they are just crying for no good reason. I am a weak person in front of these little creatures. And I get mad when people say it is not our problem if they are sick or hungry or homeless AND at the same time these same people make a big fuss if scientists want to use a fertilized egg distant for discarding in research. so an egg is worth protecting but a child or a baby is not?

I get upset when a township or a city takes property by force from an owner or restricts it use just for out-of-this-world reasons and almost flip out when the people who feel the same like me about that support occupying other nations' lands and take advantage of them because we are a superpower.

Is the idea of the existence of a social humanistic capitalist possible? Is such a creature or a system exists.

I think I belong there.

Comments
on Feb 26, 2007
Good piece, thinkaloud. I honestly believe that most people are similarly conflicted, and that the answers are not so cut and dry. I believe we should think and not be hogtied by parties into being one of two different ideologies.
on Feb 26, 2007
I believe we should think and not be hogtied by parties into being one of two different ideologies


thanks Gideon, the problem is not the parties. it is the people. i wish the sane reasonable people have a party of their own. but how do we do that? and would they represent a majority to get to office and make sense out of this crazy state of affairs? i doubt it.Things doesnt make sense, and PC and Neocon Capitalists both got out of hand. sombody has to do something. is there a bill to take for sanity.
on Feb 26, 2007
Seriously, you won't agree with everything they have to say, but take a hard look at the LP. They're not perfect, but I enjoy the fact that they don't have such a closely defined party line that I have to follow in running for office. Libertarians disagree on a lot, but what we ultimately agree on is the right of individuals to a certain amount of self determination.
on Feb 26, 2007
I believe we should think and not be hogtied by parties into being one of two different ideologies.


Unfortunately, some willingly tie themselves up.

Meh, C'est la vie.

Good bit TA.

~L
on Feb 26, 2007
what we ultimately agree on is the right of individuals to a certain amount of self determination

Gideon.

All i am looking for is reasonable stands about things that affect us all. Individual stuff, i dont care how people do it since it is their private affairs. they fabricate data and ignore others to justify completely unreasonable stands. Do they really have to prohibit smoking even in bars? what happens to good ventillation and separate area for smokers? smoking kills more than drinking? or overeating?or eating the wrong vein-clogging food? absolutely not. so why they single out smoking?

Do businesses really have to pollute unchecked? i design and build chemical, pharmaceitical and petrochemical plants and refineries. i know they dont have to. i know it is not a big deal to incorporate environmental systems to preserve clean air and water. so why they oppose it? to save 5% of the plant cost? dont they get that back from consumers? so what is the problem? Coal-burning utilities can burn it cleanley, so why pollute the air with soot, Nox (nitrogen oxides) fumes and CO2 (carbon Dioxide)?

i can go on and on. why sanity is missing. to make little more profits, or to satisfy a minority that makes a big noise? we all have to suffer for that?

I believe we should think and not be hogtied by parties into being one of two different ideologies

~L

Thanks Lucas, not only we should think, we should think reasonably, that is the operative word, "reasonably"

See u guys and gals in few weeks, i will be away on business.

Have a good time blogging. and be reasonable ALL OF YOU GUYS AND GALS. you hear ......