The Path to Good Government

"Someone once said in a democracy, the job of the public is often to make it safe for politicians to do the right thing" In other words, Washington won't grow up until America does.

The above statement was taken from the November 22 edition of "Blomberg Businessweek"

So is America immature as implied? My opinion its fifty-fifty.

First, look at the transitional era we live in. This morning I have been up for two hours and have received twenty-seven e mails. Before the day is over this number will easily double. Then I look at a list of my peers (seventy years plus) about ten percent use e mail. Looking at the beginning of the other half is my grandkids.

This spring, Megan sixteen flipped her car seven or eight times into a gully a couple miles from home. Because she was wearing her seat belt, she escaped with miner cuts and abrasions. She crawled out of the car and made it up to the roadway and started walking toward home. She was meet on the road by her fourteen old brother, who was out checking on cattle with a pickup truck. Taking her home her, father immediately rushed her to the hospital where she was met with a dozen or more of her friends. This happened in North Dakota were some of her friend had to travel over twenty miles. How did this happen? Texting!

So what does this all this mean? Tell Megan a lie and she will check it out in minutes. Tell many of my peers and they will take months and maybe just accept it as truth. A perfect place for the development of anarchy. The Megan age group, not so much!

So what is the Tea Party? It is a mixture of people some with anarchist tendency. The smallest form of government is the family. And every parent who raised children knows the rebellion teenager go through. Megan is no exception I'm sure, but I am sure she will always remember "the government official(her dad)" who drove her to the hospital.

Politics is about who controls government. Anarchy is a way to get control by overthrow.

I have great confidence in Megan and her peers with the tools of modern technology to sort out fact and fiction. I don't have the same confidence of my generation and many of those in between.

The other day I received two e mails saying President Obama was spending two hundred million dollars per day on a foreign trip. In no time this was exposed as a lie by a reporter on a "main stream media" outlet, but not before it was repeated many times by the three college dropout talk show hosts, several internet outlets and Fox News. Many people today still believe the original lie.

A fact is verified by reliable sources who study and analyze it. Fox news, radio hosts Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck don't fall in that category, they only repeat the lie.

Facts and verification of facts will defeat anarchy and make good government.

The Tea Party Movement

Someone sent me this web site: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/05/school-employee-sends-anti-tea-party-e-mail/

What was the possible messages and what was the intended message?

The intended message was you should not send out or have a political opinion if you work for a public institution such as a school, but it is okay for a public licensed institution to have a biased opinion, like Fox News.

But we all have biased opinions, but first a disclaimer!

It is bad for a small business to disclose a political opinion as it could hurt sales. Therefore I will always oppose political opinions expressed by a company I represent.

But in this blog I represent me. By my friends I have been called a extreme liberal, extreme conservative, a libertarian and a pragmatist. I like the last one the best!

Culture, education and experience shape our beliefs. Or is it propaganda?

I would like to share a story I carefully tell because three of us still alive.

This story is about a very diverse group in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin. The discussion was about propaganda that was then used by the Chinese communist Government.

The participants were a Catholic of mixed decent, A Methodist of Scandinavian decent, a Jew, a Hindu Chinese from ---- ---- and a to become Jet Pilot who thought he might be God.

The discussion was about the Christian religion as a product of propaganda with the the Jew leading that argument. The Jew challenged us to participate in a experiment. We each would spread a rumor that some disaster was going to occur on a specific date. We would spread this rumor at fraternities and other dorms where we had connections.

In three weeks this rumor was published in the Milwaukee Journal followed by followup story(s) in other Wisconsin newspapers. The rumor worked!

The followup to this true story is the Jewish students argument was how Hitler came to power in Germany with the use of rumors.

We in the US must be on guard on any limitation of free speech. And let me make it clear that I have not repeated this story because I always believed spreading false anonymous rumors is wrong. But a recent Supreme Court ruling has declared anonymous spending of any speech is O'K (Citizens United v. FEC). This has vindicated me.