Why do Historians always insist upon using words that are WAY outside of the average reader's vocabulary? I mean, sometimes throwing a $4 word in is necessary, but some writers just don't realize that using too many words that are outside of the vernacular just slaughters a piece of work. I'm convienced that a Napoleon complex is all that seperates those types from regualer historians. After all, if you truly wish to try and prove yourself or convience society of some finding or new point of view, you want as many people as possible to understand you, don't you?
Perhaps this is symbolic of a greater conflict, between those who set forth in life to be intelectual and think for a living, and those who work an honest days wage. Should we trust our government to a select group of overconfident intellectuals who overthing situations and cant make up their mind, or do we melt down the democratic process and set motor skills, not intelligence as the standard of voter ellidgability?
How is it that an intelligent person's point of view is worth more than that of the working man? The "open minded" intellectual community of our society often rejects the standpoints and opinions of the very people they claim to be trying to help. This does not mean right or left, liberal or conservative, it just means that people assume that their college education gives them the intelligence to assume they know how we all should live.
The distinction between left and right in this nation is appauling and distorted with no real boundries or distinctions outside individual issues. If you're a christian, your a right wing conservative and vote republican, and if your pro-abortion, your a left wing democratic liberal right? So what if I'm a fundimental christian that believes that tolerance and open minded ideals, forgiveness, and kindness are the princeples by which we should live? Then, of course, because I oppose a law forbidding gay unions and because I don't believe in the death penealty I'm a leftist. But wait, then I also don't believe in abortions, high tax rates or gun control, so then I'm a right winger.
Choosing platforms on single issues forces the voter to compensate at leas some of his/her ideals when they cast their vote. If they refuse to vote, they are for some reason not considered to be pulling their weight in society. I have been told that because I missed a ballot that I had no right to complain about my politicians. This is utter hoarsecrap. Perhaps the most ironic thing about this whole system is the fact that if someone does perfectly match the platform of either party and agree whole heartedly with right or left views, than they are deemed TOO conservative or TOO liberal: they cant be voted into office.
Is this sort of compromise good for our nation? Perhaps the fact that politicians lie about their views is what saves our political structure from total disruption. If they stuck to what they said and never compromised, nothing would EVER get done. Our politicians seem like snakes, but the world inside that dome in D.C. is completely different than ours, and has been finely tuned over hundreds of years to serve the nation in the best manner possible. Its everyone else we have to worry about.
(From my perspective) The left has it in their head that the conservatives in this nation are all as bloodthirsty as Bill O'Riley and Michael Savage and they wine. They complain and they bitch and moan about consevatives being dumb and angry and not knowing whats best and trying to push everyone around, and they complain about conservatives being CLOSED MINDED. The Democrats CAN'T unite, they cant stand up and take being a minority in Congress and they accuse their opponents of crimes.
The conservatives, meanwhile seem to have forgotten that this is a two party system, and have sold themselves out. They have raise our deficit, ignored domestic issues, and oh yeah, created a diplomatic nightmare which will probably take the next five decades to clean up.
The stupidest thing of all seems to be the mass media as a whole. Everyone's up in arms about Bush and the state of affairs in this nation, and the same people who are acting like nothing has ever gone wrong in this country are the same ones complaining that we aren't educated enough as a people. Work through the system and change things if you have a problem. The state of affairs is not great, but its still better than anywhere else on this planet. That doesn't make it ok, but the world is not coming to an end.
No media is more bias towards one side than the other, some are just more casual about it. News has an inherent bias because THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE WHAT TO REPORT. Some person or group of people making those decisions will invariably follow some pattern of prefrence. We know what those are, so why do people still complain? So what if Fox News wants to report good things about Bush all day long. So what if CNN wants to make images of cats in trees seem as important as our soldiers dieing abroad. WE KNOW THEY PREFER ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER. Watch them all, or watch what you like.
The system has worked for a LONG time and we are the most prosperous nation in the world. We are in a "recession" and are economy is still growing. No peoples in the history of the planet earth have had it as good as I do, sitting here typing what I think about my government and my society, knowing that if i REALLY wanted to I could become rich doing it. Here at school, learning at others expense with all my meals paid for, and the ability to travel the world in about a day, and the ability to communicate across the globe in only seconds.
I am not right, I am not left. I am not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat. I'm an American, and thats how I vote, or don't vote.
This has no real point. These are just thoughts and rants. If you have some response, or feel that you want to skin me after reading this, please, contact me! I'll post your comments.
Oh, and i dont worry about typos when dealing with the internet.
Good Day, and God Bless (The United States Of America).
