Friday, December 24, 2004
Passed to me by the Quilly.
Fundamentalism
is dangerous...I'm not really a Conservative.
Conservatives, as currently portrayed, and which many of them believe,
is
keeping God in the Public Square and kicking the ass of the foreign
bastards
that screw with us. Now that is not without merit; but my personal
belief
is that the most powerful government should be the one down the street
from
your house. From that center of government should emanate the care of
the
_truly_ unfortunate and the dismissal of those that are either
parasites or
predators.
As for the question of Big Media. Oh Bother, Pooh!
Right now the Rightie blogs seem to have ascendancy because, in fact,
the
Main Stream Media is not only unethical, but they lean to the left.
Should
this change I can imagine that folks like Wonkette and Kos will have
meaning. Imagine Free Speech in Boston when the only paper was owned
by a
man loyal to the crown. Soon many other papers were founded and found
a
market to plumb and people to inform. B. Franklin took that Idea of a
dissident press to Philadelphia and shortly all hell broke loose.
The Sheeple will watch the MSM; mind-numbed Dems will watch CBS, ABS
and NBS
and their counterparts will watch Fox. Those that wish to actually
learn
will find a way...as it always has been, A Society where that does not
happen is doomed; and I see no need to force people to be informed. If
they
don't want to be then it is Darwinism in action...societal Darwinism
being
the only place that his theory has been proven.
QM