97forever
Team Owner
Well, it is (nearly) an election year.
I am notoriously anti-politics for the most part and have sit back drinking coffee and read a lot of the heated exchanges between you well informed folks on here.
From my buddy Fergy to Old Ironhead and mopar and all the rest I have learned a lot.
But I have a hard time with politics really. To me personally, with my lack of a formal education, none of it makes a helluva lot of sense.
I don't know if I am in the minority or the majority of Americans in my 'political' beliefs, but here are a few school of hard knocks observations that I have put together:
1. Conservative and Liberal? The terms seem to be more dependent on outside influences than any real application of common sense. From following casually it would seem that the terms are pretty fluid. In the late 60's the far left wanted to dismantle the federal government and overthrow 'the man'. In the late 90's the far right wanted to dismantle the federal government and form 'militia's' to defend themselves from 'the man'.
2. The above might imply that the terms themselves are illusional---or at least misleading. The left and right are actually interchangable in reality, depending on one's personal viewpoint and socio-economic level at the moment.
3. IF the above terms are illusional---then what is the REAL left(liberal) and right(conservative)?
Anarchy or fascism?The left to its farthest conclusion IS Anarchy---the right to it's most extreme IS fascism. That would seem to be the common sense, real world, no BS fact.
4. So by now (if I haven't confused us all totally) the question might be:'but those are the extremes of each ideological system'. Well, yes they are. But if not a wholehearted believer in your chosen 'left or rightness'...what are you and why bother in the first place?
5. The answer to that would seem to be you are what the great majority of us really are: A little of both. Somewhere in the middle of this road.Neutral or in the center. A touch of leftness- a touch of rightness.
6. So thats established,at least in my mind. MOST Americans are just posturing in reality. Most of us like what's important to us and directly affects US. Sadly, in my opinion, that seems to be the American way these days. The 'me' generation has always been here and always is likely to be. Might be time for the 'other folks matter' generation though, IMO.
Anyway, thats my take on this whole political drama we have going on here.
(And damn it---I just posted ANOTHER political post even by being appolitical didn't I? I hate irony, man.)
I am notoriously anti-politics for the most part and have sit back drinking coffee and read a lot of the heated exchanges between you well informed folks on here.
From my buddy Fergy to Old Ironhead and mopar and all the rest I have learned a lot.
But I have a hard time with politics really. To me personally, with my lack of a formal education, none of it makes a helluva lot of sense.
I don't know if I am in the minority or the majority of Americans in my 'political' beliefs, but here are a few school of hard knocks observations that I have put together:
1. Conservative and Liberal? The terms seem to be more dependent on outside influences than any real application of common sense. From following casually it would seem that the terms are pretty fluid. In the late 60's the far left wanted to dismantle the federal government and overthrow 'the man'. In the late 90's the far right wanted to dismantle the federal government and form 'militia's' to defend themselves from 'the man'.
2. The above might imply that the terms themselves are illusional---or at least misleading. The left and right are actually interchangable in reality, depending on one's personal viewpoint and socio-economic level at the moment.
3. IF the above terms are illusional---then what is the REAL left(liberal) and right(conservative)?
Anarchy or fascism?The left to its farthest conclusion IS Anarchy---the right to it's most extreme IS fascism. That would seem to be the common sense, real world, no BS fact.
4. So by now (if I haven't confused us all totally) the question might be:'but those are the extremes of each ideological system'. Well, yes they are. But if not a wholehearted believer in your chosen 'left or rightness'...what are you and why bother in the first place?
5. The answer to that would seem to be you are what the great majority of us really are: A little of both. Somewhere in the middle of this road.Neutral or in the center. A touch of leftness- a touch of rightness.
6. So thats established,at least in my mind. MOST Americans are just posturing in reality. Most of us like what's important to us and directly affects US. Sadly, in my opinion, that seems to be the American way these days. The 'me' generation has always been here and always is likely to be. Might be time for the 'other folks matter' generation though, IMO.
Anyway, thats my take on this whole political drama we have going on here.
(And damn it---I just posted ANOTHER political post even by being appolitical didn't I? I hate irony, man.)
