Rant 1

Can we (for just a minute) stop being so emotional?  And for another thing, why don’t we think for ourselves instead of letting celebrities and news pundits boil complex issues down to a sound bite and spoon feed it to us? First of all, celebrities are not always the most well informed, deep thinkers.  And really America, news pundits are not reporting the news; they’re selling it.  Controversy sells, not harmonious accord.  Therefore, it is in the interest of the news media to use polarizing language, to try to cast things as black or white.  How many of us have read the health bill?  I was getting my hair done a few days ago and the shop was all a buzz.  Not one person made any reference to having read the bill.  They just blindly regurgitated what they’d heard off some news program.  Several people have asked me what I think and I just tell them that when I get around to reading it, I’ll let them know.   Why be apart of spreading half truths, speculation, and flat out inaccuracies?  It doesn’t help anything and it just adds to the fear (and really, when was the last time anything good came out of fear and ignorance?  I’m looking at you Salem witch trials, Mr. McCarthy, Swine flu pandemic).  I’m taking a stand against Washington.  I refuse to be led around by the fear being peddled on both sides of the political fence (being jerked back and forth is exhausting).  So, I’ll read the thing myself and then I’ll think about it.  I won’t get all upset because if the system works the way it was designed (and I have faith our forefathers; they put some thought into this), the bill will be tested, challenged, refined, and reworked so that it works, or it will be discarded.  And besides, tomorrow we’ll be presented with something new by which we should be outraged/incensed/deeply offended. : )