231 years in the making
Partly inspired by Keith Olbermann's special comment of last night, I have come up with my own political philosophy: Blind loyalty to one's own party can block one from seeing the main idea of an issue. For example, the government response to Hurricane Katrina. The main idea is that the government screwed up horribly after the hurricane. Some exclusively blame the federal government headed by Republican president Bush, some the state government headed by Democratic governor Blanco, some the local, city government headed by Democratic mayor Nagin. Stripping away the sides of this issue and getting down to the basics, the entire government, federal, state, and city, failed us. Another issue is the possible impeachment of President Bush. This issue is highly divisive and is the catalyst that started this philosophy. Within Bush's own Republican party, a handful of dissenters have voiced in favor of impeachment, or at least their opposition. This is because, Republican, Democrat, or neither, President Bush is, in my opinion, the worst American president. This may sound like typical liberal bias, but I can assure you, if Bush was a Democrat, I would still believe he is the worst. The aforementioned dissenters are those who are not blindly loyal to the Republican party, and thusly, Bush. Those who are not may be the blindly loyal ones or believe that Bush is doing a good job. They may say that the recurrence of governmental scandals in the news is nothing more than liberal bias. Biased or not, the facts are these:
1. About 3,500 of our soldiers have died in the Iraq war, more than the number of American people who were killed in the attacks of 9/11, which was used as a justification for the war.
2. Someone leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent at about the same time her husband spoke out against the Iraq War.
3. Several US attorneys were fired, and there doesn't seem to be a consensus on why.
4. The NSA is tapping phone calls without a warrant.
Those are four examples of basic facts. I did my best to seem unbiased in my writing and I left out what they mean. Now, what do they mean to you? Just looking at them, answer these three questions:
1. Ignoring the political affiliations of the people the facts are written about and yourself, what do you think?
2. If the political affiliations of the people the facts are written about are the same as yours, what do you think?
3. If the political affiliations of the people the facts are written about are the opposite of yours, what do you think?
Leave your answers as a comment. Oh, and happy Fourth of July.
1. About 3,500 of our soldiers have died in the Iraq war, more than the number of American people who were killed in the attacks of 9/11, which was used as a justification for the war.
2. Someone leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent at about the same time her husband spoke out against the Iraq War.
3. Several US attorneys were fired, and there doesn't seem to be a consensus on why.
4. The NSA is tapping phone calls without a warrant.
Those are four examples of basic facts. I did my best to seem unbiased in my writing and I left out what they mean. Now, what do they mean to you? Just looking at them, answer these three questions:
1. Ignoring the political affiliations of the people the facts are written about and yourself, what do you think?
2. If the political affiliations of the people the facts are written about are the same as yours, what do you think?
3. If the political affiliations of the people the facts are written about are the opposite of yours, what do you think?
Leave your answers as a comment. Oh, and happy Fourth of July.
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