Reply #20: Thanks, my pet theory... [View All]

[MissWaverly]

I believe that Tv has made us lazy thinkers. Everything goes according to formula, the attractive well dressed people are the good guys, the ugly toads are the bad guys who will get their just desserts in the end always (which is not an automatic given in reality). I think Americans need to communicate more like we do on the blog, they get too trapped into their 9-5 world, their peers, their neighborhood, their social contacts, they have no idea of other cultures, or other perspectives. I don't think that George Walker Bush could have come to power in the 40's or the 50's, if we want a candidate with the integrity of an FDR, we have to set the bar that high and fight like hell for him. We have to ask questions and when the answers are not given we have to send letter after letter to every newspaper to ask why was this not answered. I think that adversity will sharpen our perspective.