Never make a decision in anger
October 14, 2008
I see a lot of people making their decisions based on anger. What I am talking about is voters with their minds made up. I am not making comparisons, but thruout history, some of the worst empires have risen out of the ashes of regimes the citizens were extremely upset with.
Let me throw out a couple of examples here:
Red October. Russians were tired of the Czar. The hatred opened the door for the other extreme causing 72 years of disaster. Before 1933 Germany was in bad shape and Germans voted someone into office who was most outspoken against them.
I see a lot of danger here when people are ignoring one side’s warning signs.
I am not comparing Obama to Hitler or Bush to the Czar, but I am saying that before you vote for someone, you need to calm down and look at the reality of what both candidates stand for.
You can vote in what you consider your own best interest. You can vote for a tax cut promised to you, but will that really get the country back in shape, or is it going to give Americans a little more spending money for a year to be followed by even worse financial problems or stagnating back to where things are now?
We also need to look at both side’s history and get an idea of who we may have up there. I do not consider all personal matters unimportant. I think that right now is a great time for people to calm down. Drop the namecalling, stop the hatred and open up your mind. Look above your own situation for a minute and decide on who you trust to leave the country in better shape in 4 years.
Hope you are not offended with a political post, but I see a lot of people closing their eyes and refusing to look closer at issues which determine what the next 4 years may turn into.
The problem I have is not with who some people want to choose, but why. The lack of reason for it. The desire to pay back those they are angry with. The fact that Americans are willing to overlook so many questions which have not been answered.
We don’t want 4 more years of what we have seen, but we don’t want to throw out the baby with the bathwater either and need to decide rationally who we would trust to lead us into a new beginning.
Mike,
You make a very good point here. I was at the blood bank today giving blood as a “Life Saver”. Shortly after giving blood, as I was seated in the waiting area a very angry man sat down at my table. He was voting for change. He showed near blind anger. He would hear nothing good of the Republican positions. It was all garbage. They tell nothing but lies. When I tried to hold a discussion with him he saw that I was not in total agreement with him. He got up and moved to another table.
Rob
Rob, thank you for your comment and what you have said is exactly what I have a problem with. Blind hatred. Unsubstanciated hatred. Hatred so blind, it imitates the movement of electing a leader who has written in black and white what he plans to do with Jews, yet got elected anyways. Looking at what Mr. Obama has written in the past, one must wonder:
http://firetown.blogspot.com/2008/08/dreams-from-my-father-by-barack-obama.html
Has he ever taken back what he said about white people? It doesn’t seem to matter. A President who rises as an angry revolutionary will be similar to Mr. Arafat in the years following his Noble Peace Price.
One reporter said it very well:
“He is a revolutionary, and unless there is a revolution or someone to hate, he has no idea what to do with himself.”
People like Obama don’t get elected. They are the voices of opposition.
Everytime in history that guys like him got elected, disaster followed immediately.
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