tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post6773877630987954216..comments2024-01-08T17:06:27.237-05:00Comments on Cheekyness: I Promised Myself I Would Stay Out of This. Oh, Well...Suhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862479925124552922noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post-58462120682499234742013-07-04T13:50:28.785-04:002013-07-04T13:50:28.785-04:00Yep. When you start breaking every freaking thing ...Yep. When you start breaking every freaking thing down to ingroup/outgroup, us v them, and so on, people just dig in. And then nothing gets done. To wit: Congress. :(Suhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862479925124552922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post-40865976620810422142013-07-03T21:59:47.087-04:002013-07-03T21:59:47.087-04:00Very well said! I just wish the people who so desp...Very well said! I just wish the people who so desperately need to read it would.<br /><br />The whole point of politics seems to be to make it an us-versus-them mentality, something popular in middle school. And to be truthful, I think the whole point of the internet is also to behave like a child, so when you combine the two things, it gets quite bad.J E Oneilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09780097298061829471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post-18700993035992496562013-07-03T14:22:22.056-04:002013-07-03T14:22:22.056-04:00Well said, both of you.Well said, both of you.Suhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862479925124552922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post-16408256430280225712013-07-03T13:48:18.694-04:002013-07-03T13:48:18.694-04:00Hear! Hear!
We are all honored citizens, standin...Hear! Hear! <br /><br />We are all honored citizens, standing for RIGHTS. Abusing other rights in the process and demeaning others is a true reflection upon yourself. <br /><br />Several sayings come to mind, but I think the most relevant is that the Texas government is cutting off its nose to spite its face. <br /><br />I have been seeking change in Texas politics for a long time, and I am glad to sense that it is coming, but at what cost? We have sacrificed our dignity, and wasn't that what we were all fighting for in the first place?<br /><br />Throwing the baby (in this instance, somewhat literally) out with the bathwater (in this case, your standards, self-respect, and dignity), doesn't produce any benefit to the cause you are fighting for. <br /><br />There is a benefit however, by alienating yourself from your constituency and demeaning yourself to the level of school yard children goes a long way toward helping your opponent in the next election, and for that I am grateful. <br /><br />I have only seldom been ashamed to be a Texan, and today is one of those days. <br />Courtneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811511692264314325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post-5294693567268553332013-07-03T13:28:11.207-04:002013-07-03T13:28:11.207-04:00Unintended consequences is a politically correct w...Unintended consequences is a politically correct way of seeing the same events that are aptly described with "pride comes before the fall."<br /><br />But, change the way we talk about it and it makes people feel like there is something different going on. It would be nice if we were all able to get to the heart of the issue instead of hiding behind our language.<br /><br />Our culture does that for us well. Double entendre is how we like to communicate in this culture, but we really only have one intent. Soon we believe we actually have the intent our language is hiding and we don't.<br /><br />The only way we will all be able to have our ideas and have them all be accepted as equally valid is if they don't contradict each other and the only way to do that is to be extremely specific. So specific that the real size of our ideas can be seen, instead of trying to make them seem so huge.<br /><br />I'm not trying to rant, just trying to consider what this means. ;)Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15943431403519078054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post-52198652227608670522013-07-03T13:01:41.011-04:002013-07-03T13:01:41.011-04:00Exactly. And the emotions are running so rampant. ...Exactly. And the emotions are running so rampant. I don't know if there's a way back.Suhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862479925124552922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552468.post-58506445915539651692013-07-03T12:47:58.198-04:002013-07-03T12:47:58.198-04:00A touchy subject for sure. Everyone seems to thin...A touchy subject for sure. Everyone seems to think that their opinion is the correct one....and it is, for THEM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com