[quote=pri_dk]
It’s true. No matter how extreme the bullshit one side presents, it has to be given “equal” consideration. That’s how we end up with people like Christine O’Donnell getting as much attention as credible candidates.
Of course we have this nonsense because the “mainstream” media won’t call BS when they see it, the “fair-and-balanced” media actively promotes the BS, and the “internet” media has no filtering whatsoever.
It’s a bizarre irony that the information age is slowly degrading the critical thinking skills of society.[/quote]
Pri: This is just hilarious. So, if I’m reading this correctly, only “qualified” candidates need apply to hold the levers of government and the media should only give airtime to those “serious” enough to merit it. Yeah, I think that’s what John Kerry, war hero, was saying when he chided the media for paying ANY attention at all to the Tea Party.
Uh, you said you were in the army, right? Was that the U.S. Army? If you’ll recall, the U.S. Army is a huge, convoluted mess and made up of people from all over the country (actually all over the world), from all walks of life and all ethnicities and social classes. In its own bumbling, stumbling fashion it functions quite well, just like the US as a whole.
The authoritarian, autocratic line you’re spouting has a more of a place in Russia or China (or 1930s Germany, which you seem to have a good handle on, historically speaking) and not the US.
Pick up a book on US History and read up on the utterly bizarre cast of characters that have made up this country’s elected officials and then come back and talk about Christine O’Donnell. Was she bugshit crazy? Yup. Did she every right to run for office? Yup. Its America, Chico, and if you wore a uniform, that is EXACTLY what you were willing to die for.
I don’t condone the nonsense emanating from the Radical Right, anymore than I condone it from the Loony Left. It is what simultaneously makes this country great, while periodically debilitating us, too. Underneath all the screaming and hysterics right now, the system is actually functioning just the way its supposed to.
