SHUT UP! GROW UP! and a lot of "YA-DA, YA-DA".

i think america is whacked in the head. the hypocrisy knows no bounds, and of course, no one is willing to admit it.

my personal belief on our country's problems is that few are actually right about the answer. we took the road towards "independence" and ended up at the extreme...life at the expense of caring for our fellow man. people suffered because of it. and now we've over-corrected in pursuit of dependence on "pharoah" for all that's good for "me". flinging ourselves to the other end of the spectrum...still using the same "entitlement" fuel. sheesh!

now we listen to whomever tells us what we want to hear. de tocqueville's thoughts on "the public being bribed with the public's money" seem so accurate of late.

as for voting, i guess i've tended towards the conservative...at least that seems to be the trend. yet in that admission, i struggle to be identified with too much of the "conservative club" mentality...but must also admit that i find the "liberal club" to be just as distasteful.

no one knows their history anymore...and the irony is always soooo thick because of it.

i've loved the "stop picking on my prez" reaction by the libs. how ironic that there was no issue for them to do the same even a year ago. if we had a cent for each of the justifications, we'd be debt-free in no time. ;)

dumb.

and the conservs going all "he's the antichrist" regarding the new big guy. libs thought g.w. was the big bad too remember...

for me, it's not ever one man that's the problem. it's the people that put him there. and those people are on all sides in my opinion.

sooooo...what to do? man, i don't know...nothing is going to poof away our problems. going through is the only way...but i guess how long we'll keep plodding with our eyes closed is yet to be determined. makes me think of the classic question in the 'matrix'...the red pill or the blue pill? embracing humility might be a good place to start. even if we are headed in an equally crazy direction, even if we have to constantly shut off the news stories of fear-ridden conservs given by cult-euphoria-hazed journalists, even if we end up where our worst fears think we are headed (on either side)...we can choose to live by the deeper truths...living out christ's heart in every moment.