To Say or not to Say that is the Question

Words, words, words, that’s what this blog is about. I’ve started this blog entry many times because I find it very hard to write about the subject I present in this entry until I realized that the subject was words. Words bring a simple question to mind. Why aren’t the words of the president enough to get the congress to work together and come up with reasonable solutions to the countries economic, health, and educational problems? Why can’t the members of our congress meet and confer and produce reasonable legislation to get our country moving toward solvency again?

 

When you hear the words that are used by both the left and the right to communicate it becomes clear that the present political coterie can never solve a problem. Each group exaggerates the position of its opposing cabal and belittles them for that position. A good example of this is what Bobby Jendal is saying about a planned high-speed train that runs from Los Angeles to Los Vegas. He has said that it’s a train from Disneyland to Los Vegas. The fact that he inserted Disneyland as a starting point gave him fodder to ridicule the Recovery Bill. Ronald Reagan was particularly good at this. He made being a Liberal a dirty word when he called Mondale the “L” word. Since that time conservatives have used the word Liberal to discount anything people who take an opposing view of any issue. I could find so many more examples of this kind of talk by conservatives, but this doesn’t expunge liberals from blame. They might have even started all this nefarious language in the sixties. It was the “peace movement” that called the conservative establishment a demonic group of people. During the Bush administration I heard certain left wing broadcasters call President Bush head of a crime family. They called Cheney Darth Vader who everybody knows is the embodiment of evil.

 

As long as the fringe on both sides of the isle are allowed to be the spokes people and our political leaders defer to these people as the prime movers of their political philosophy our problems will not be solved. All of us need to tone down the rhetoric and open our ears and show respect to those whose ideas are different than our own. Not only will we have a better chance to solve these problems but also each of us might learn something to make our personal lives better.