From a "that's sad" to "a frustration" to more

When you say over and over again you don’t support so and so, or you don’t support anyone in DC it can get tiring, but sometimes what is being done can be even more tiring.

Name calling or attacking personalities has peppered our political history, however, over the last few years it seems to be the only policy some people are employing to get elected. If the only way you can get elected is to use negative attacks on a person, not their policy, not their agenda, but just who they are just shows your weakness as a politician and more importantly someone capable of leading and actually producing public policy. As a conservative I do not want too much government and to me the policies of democrats are ineffective and will hurt us in the long run. At some point though you need to come up with an alternative to what they are doing instead of just saying we are right and they are wrong. Unfortunately in our society this seems to work. If you don’t think it does, then why are there so many Republicans in office.
We really need to offer a better alternative than just down playing a person especially if the criticism is based on just name calling. At this point I am agreeing with a comment from the Mclaughlin report this past Sunday that the 2016 Republican Primary is going to become a contest of who can portray our President as weak and themselves as a candidate as stronger. Whether or not they actually come up with a policy that is better than what the President is doing is going to be interesting. And like the commentator from the show I do not think so. We need more from our leaders. If you stick to only attacking the surface or the person it only proves you have nothing better to offer. And this is sad.

I know we need more. We need leadership in our country that can tackle some of the problems facing our country especially with DAESH, the Ukraine, and the debt levels we are growing. Just saying so and so is no good is not policy. This is just sad, real sad.

Again our history has proven to be acrimonious in political dialogue, but at some point throughout our history someone has stepped up and produced action that moves our country forward. The Republicans seem to be severely lacking in finding that person going into 2016. They may say we are strong and the democrats are weak, but until they espouse an agenda, real public policy they need to take a good look at themselves. I do not like the democrat agenda and see many flaws in it, but at least they put forward something.
One example of bad policy is the current welfare system, but the Republicans can only say to cut it, reduce spending. Unfortunately the people on welfare will still exist. We need to get them off welfare to reduce spending. The plan should be to change what we are doing. Do you hear Republicans come up with a way to do this? No, their verbiage is only negative to the people on welfare. And yet the Democrats will continue to add to the current policy telling people we need to continue down this failed path because that is the solution. The problem for the true conservatives is they say something, they do something, failed as it may be, it tells people they are attacking the problem. Name calling does not change the dynamic. I have given what I consider an alternative conservative solution in a previous post, whether or not it is the complete right answer I do not know, but at least there are true conservative principal alternatives and my ideas can show this, yet the Republicans only use tactics that are bound to fail in the judgment of history. And more importantly in the reality of our current public policy.

Throughout history the tactics of right wing politicians is to rely on ignorance and attacks on their opponents. They do not rely on creating an agenda because they do not want anyone to know their agenda because if they did people would rid themselves of the diseases of this type of politic. Right now the right is calling themselves conservative as a smoke screen to what the truly want. Our ignorance to their tactics show that democracy as a whole is in danger. And that also is sad. This country deserves better.

I was driving down the road and in a hurry so I decided to get behind the $50,000 sports car to get where I was going faster. Turns out the $50,000 sports car was one of the reasons traffic was going slow. A bit frustrating.

On the flip side I have been on the highway stuck in large amounts of traffic going 30 to 40 mph and then along comes the person trying to bully their way through at 60, 70 + mph, swerving through and causing everyone grief. Then all of a sudden traffic comes to the stop and go of only 5mph, truly frustrating. And then you come to the scene of the wreck and there is the car that was driving crazy that passed you a few minutes ago. Frustrating. And what is crazy this has happened more than a few times here on the highways of Dallas, Tx during rush hour.

This even happened one time where my daughter and I were in the car and one person was going absolutely bonkers. The car was stuck behind us for a few minutes due to the amount of traffic on the road. They were honking and tailgating etc, and there was nothing I could do. I couldn’t move over, couldn’t speed up, or anything so they could pass us. Eventually they were able to pass us and they continued on this behavior trying to get through traffic. Lo and behold my daughter and I watched the wreck happen. The person finally decided to weave in and out of traffic and the shoulder of the highway. Yep they lost control of the car on the shoulder, hit a light pole and since we were on an inclined headed down towards the direction of traffic we saw all this. The car hit the light pole and it fell across the road. Thankfully it did not hit another car, but everyone behind was now at a standstill since the pole blocked the road. The car was wrecked and off to the side of the highway. A group of drivers and yes myself included got out of our cars and moved the pole off the road and waited for the ambulance and police to come. Once the ambulance arrived we left.

My youngest daughter saw all this and still wonders why I won’t let her drive. It is this insanity that scares me for her. And needless to say very frustrating for her. What she doesn’t understand is why I don’t trust her, when in reality I don’t trust others. Frustrating. We deserve better from ourselves.

And now to brag. One of the aspects of the previously mentioned Mclaughlin Report show was the commentary on the discussion on how we can deal with DAESH and terrorism in general. The discussion is around the need to combat the soft war aspect of terrorism, the propaganda and recruiting they are doing. About a year and a half ago on a news story post, not this blog, I brought up we need a modern version of Radio Free Europe this country employed to send messages to the people under Soviet domination. We would use this same idea to create our own or at least an alternative message towards all the people being attracted to the terrorist message. This was exactly what this conference they were discussing was about. So here I am way ahead of the rest of our government and Western leadership. Am I bragging? Heck yes. Do we need to employ this type of thinking (not just the military campaigns needed): an even more heck yes.

Finally for tonight (I could go on) I leave you with this thought:

“Complacency in democracy is a sin”

A bit more of a general statement than Daniel Zovatto discussing Latin America, but not part of the David Brin’s blog commentary on The Tytler Calumny. I still think we can find leaders to espouse a true conservative agenda and avoid some of the problems mentioned in this discussion. There is much more to his blog post than my comment here, but I want to separate my belief in what we can do and I still like the statement in quotes. And overall all if you think we can go forward a definite read for more background of what we are facing. And if you want something else to read, try fight the bias dot com.

Have a great night