You bring up some good points! Points that I will not quickly dismiss. Walk a few steps in my shoes, I know it is not fair to ask this of you, but you are now a friend, so consider it me asking a favor. I see the worst of society, I had one in my office today that I thought might try to kill me. The dregs of humanity, the drug addicted, the felons, they all pass by my house on the side of the road. I fear what is in front of me, staring me down.
However, I also see some of the best of society. Those who hurt from genetic illness, those who die for friends (literally, vets.) As an empath I share their pain. If Obama is the devil...so be it. We have a system in place to stop him. The biggest danger to our fellow Americans is from within. Your next door neighbor is more likely to kill or harm you then Obama...
I lost track of where I was going. Its Friday, long week, couple of Guinness. No real end point anyways...time marches on.
No Guinness here, but a long week of overtime, bed at 1900 hrs, up at 0200 hrs...
Once upon a time I studied psychology, been a study of many things - 8 1/2 years of college, settled in construction engineering where the excitement of battle existing on each day. I've lived in 29 states and have met around 30,000 people total - so I've met and known all kinds, druggies, victims, and of course people of means. A curse of mine is that I have little tolerance of the perpetually needy ones - get a life, if I could come from zero, so can they. So, in a sense I've hardened towards those who always seek yet never provide for others. The conservative in me. I once was a liberal too, but it grew tiring.
I care about people. But I care more about people who try to help themselves even in the smallest way.
Druggies - no tolerance. Felons - leave me alone. I agree with you on those who really need us. My children, I would die for without a moment's hesitation. Those who I consider my friends, for them I feel the same. Ah, an Empath
Long stories there, I posted of my early life a few weeks ago - I can feel danger from across the street. I can know immediately who is friend, and who means me harm - served me well along the way. Reference there, you might look up one of my past posts about a month ago -maybe a couple hundred posts ago.
I do know there are wonderful people here, and some of those wonderful people may be in disagreement with what we each as individuals may post. Many who object to those posts of mine might be friends as well. I mean them no harm - yet from my point of view I'd wish to shake them awake to the reality of we've got to fix this. It went on before O, and it seems to accelerate now beyond what we have ever seen before.
All these others, Picker, NF, SC, JersyBen, and more - certainly they have something to contribute and make excellent points.
So do I, and so do others - though some are far more radical than I am. Mostly I merely post the latest headlines - so what the heck do I contribute but the latest controversies?
Yet, in contributing that, what I really wish is that we would all pay, independent of beliefs, attention to the path we are taking as a nation.
The current division is too severe for us to survive as a nation as that division evolves. Absolutely we will never agree on our philosophies, but we must agree on what should be a right course.
Truman, Ike, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, O - and most all of those before them, all had flaws - and some of them grievous ones.
But they were just a focus in our sights and views.
What we need as citizens is a unity of purpose to be citizens rather than subjects.
