Arrogant and Ignorant

In keeping with the tradition of the blog, I would like to address something that I’ve been remiss not to include before now. That, of course, would be the world of the politic. Before I get to that though, I had the best breakfast this morning. I made myself some bacon, scrambled eggs, and toast. I’m putting a picture of it on my photo site at www.toad.smugmug.com under the Pepperdine Underground gallery if any one’s really interested. Okay, on to the point for this post… politics. In the past few days, especially in response to the presidential debates, there have been many political discussions around 56 Prince’s Gate here in London. In these discussions I find myself getting increasingly frustrated. What’s more, it’s not arrogant, ignorant democrats that are frustrating me. They can be made look like idiots and in that course encourage more undecideds to the righteous right. No, those who have been chapping me are arrogant, ignorant republicans! How infuriating is it to be standing there having a calm, informed discussion with someone who doesn’t know what he/she is going to do in November yet when another republican walks up and starts repeating rhetoric and propaganda that he doesn’t even understand. All I hear when this happens are the catch phrases that even the uber-liberal media have adopted such as “war on terror” and “flip-flops.” I understand that these points are valid, but they MUST be expressed in a way that makes sense to someone who doesn’t agree, and not just an angry repetition of what’s been fed to you. This has happened in a number of instances with a couple of the same people recently and I’ve had to spend so much more time doing damage control after I got them to leave. The conservative position is not the popular or cool position to hold these days, we can’t afford idiots who make it look even worse.

This is increasingly important as more people turn to the media to get their information for the upcoming election. If you believe what Newsweek is telling you then, you don’t even have to vote, Kerry’s gonna win, and Bush looked like an idiot at the debate. Even democrats who watched the debate with me said that they thought Bush came off a little better. But if you take what the media’s feeding you… we’re all screwed. For heavens sake people. THINK FOR YOURSELVES!! Pay attention to what’s going on, and don’t just follow with the fate of our great nation on the line.This is increasingly important as more people turn to the media to get their information for the upcoming election. If you believe what Newsweek is telling you then, you don’t even have to vote, Kerry’s gonna win, and Bush looked like an idiot at the debate. Even democrats who watched the debate with me said that they thought Bush came off a little better. But if you take what the media’s feeding you… we’re all screwed. For heavens sake people. THINK FOR YOURSELVES!! Pay attention to what’s going on, and don’t just follow with the fate of our great nation on the line.