Notice the list of breakout topics:
They’re all in the negative – anti homosexual, anti ObamaCare, anti Climate Change, anti Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. I thought values were something you stood for. Not something you stood against. But I really appreciate the upgrade. Last year, it was just the Left Wing Conspiracy. Now, it’s the VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY [I guess they know that because they lost the election.]
Note to self: Look up the HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS and THE PRO-DEATH AGENDA.
If you have a minute check out a website that I think has some good quality reporting it’s called whowhatwhy.com
Putting aside for the moment the incredible wrongness of being evident in the agenda items, the utter paranoid tripe, the stunning absence of any kind of logical relationship between their concerns and the reality shared by those of us with at least two brain cells to rub together, I have to agree with the one lady who, to her eternal embarrassment, actually wanted to listen and thought that the reporter was disrupting her process and should take the mike out into the foyer. Reporters should collect data and present it, not necessarily become part of the data.
Carl, I think that you hit on why I stuck that video in. I thought it was “rude” too – as they said. I hate it when we are the bad guys. It also doesn’t win any points when we are contemptuous [even though many of them specialize in contempt]. In a perfect world, I’d love to apply the rule of civility to myself, but I sometimes reread what I’ve written and cringe at my “ranting.”
Me, too. I pride myself on living in a “reality based world,” as we used to contrast ourselves to george bush’s world. When I stand back from that, I also cringe at the arrogance and the realization that I do feel superior for it.
Putting aside the conscious manipulation of people’s fears and hatred for political expediency, those people do have real worries, fears, and hatreds. We’d do better to try to understand them and offer reassuring clarity. But it’s pretty hard to get through a smoke screens of misinformation.
I can say that — and yet I still want to indulge my sense of outrage at what’s happening.