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I think it is interesting that almost every-time you turn on the television or pick up a news paper you are either reading about an American caused tragedy or watching another business executive being marched off to jail. I read an article in the USA TODAY about todays high schoolers and their opinion on reading the news paper. Only a handful bother reading a newspaper anymore and those that do believe it should be censored. According to the USA TODAY something like 57% of our teens believe that the first amendment is somehow no longer applicable and that the government should censor what is being said in our newspapers. I personally am sick of the left wing media and the ceaseless assault on our country and its policies. People blame President Bush and his administration for all of the negative attitude towards the United States today. I would like to ask whether or not it has to do with our media. If we, the citizens, do not appreciate or respect America who are we to ask the rest of the world to?
At this point I am sick at the thought that many Americans believe that our great country is some sort of evil tyrannical nation focused on taking over the world and that this drive for ultimate supremacy is driven by right win-gist. Another frightening occurrence is people thinking that by being patriotic that somehow puts you into the category that supports this world take over. I believe everyone is entitled to their own ideas but there must be a limit to peoples imagination when there is concrete facts to work around. As Leibniz put it in 1670, “a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.” When a person gets up in my face and calls me names primarily because I dare to support my elected leader I worry for the integrity and strength of our democratic government in the years to come.
I am MAD!!! I was discussing the conflict in the middle east and the person would not repeating that it was exclusivly president Bushs’ fault that we were there. I just want to clarify that that is not the case and at the time that he made the decision to move on Iraq he had been given information stating that there were weapons of mass destruction. May I give my fellow debaters a piece of advice…. no matter the nature of the argument do not get emotional or you just end up looking stupid.
