We in America spend too much time lobbing verbal dirtballs at our political leaders. Republicans or Democrats, it doesn’t matter. The behavior is pretty much the same. And why is it this way? Because name-calling appears to work so much better than debates over whether or not universal health care would work better for us than what we now have, or whether our preventive war syndrome, which has been leading us for decades into wars, has actually worked for our benefit.And what about these questions? Should we, like so many of our Western allies, be spending federal and state funds to repair our infrastructure? Did the high income tax brackets of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s actually hurt us or help us as a nation? Were the rich hurt by these high brackets of between 82 percent and 91 percent or were they helped? Were the poor and middle class hurt or helped?
I think there are a lot of good questions out there for us as a nation to examine and debate. But if we did that, we’d have to stop calling our president and people like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Sen. Ted Cruz interesting names. And then where would the fun be?
I think there are a lot of good questions out there for us as a nation to examine and debate. But if we did that, we’d have to stop calling our president and people like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Sen. Ted Cruz interesting names. And then where would the fun be?
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