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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 08:11 AM
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92. How do you expect a democracy to work, exactly?
You're going to have to accept that people are going to have legitimate concerns about policy decisions made by this administration, or delays or nondecisions.

Its part of being in a democracy.

If however, you (meaning anyone) are an adherent to a cult of personality, and view everything through that lens, then you're going to misinterpret every concern or criticism as against the personality instead of against the decision.

you may want to take a breath, and try to review what is actually going on here.

When you (you meaning anyone) point and shout "OBamahater" like invasion of the body snatchers without engaging your critical thinking and deciding if the other person has a a valid point, then you just start to look like a bunch of pod people. Pod people is what this country had under Bush. Some of us will never be pod people, no matter who is president.

the sixties taught me to question authority. That means to use critical judgement to decide if what they are doing is the right or best thing.
If we just blindly follow any leader, we teach not to lead, but to do what is simply barely adequate.

thanks for listening

But this is just a better veiled STFU thread, I"m not fooled

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