yeah, I'm going there....

I don't normally do this but.....

Politicians lie. They have always lied, and they will always continue to lie. They can't really be blamed....after all, in order to make at least 50% of a country like America like you enough to vote for you, you really have no choice but to lie. Therefore, it seems like fairly solid logic to assume that when elections are drawing near, or it is almost time to start reelection campaigns, the number of lies that our politicians start to spin for our eagerly waiting ears would increase.

This little trick seems to work miracles for people being elected or reelected. The media runs a few stories about how a certain politician "did" something great, or "took a stand" on a subject (whether or not he will ever follow through doesn't really matter). Said politician will give a few really great speeches, (of course, they all pay other people to write their speeches, and so we never actually hear the true words of a politician). The most beautiful part about all these smoke and mirrors? The American people inhale it and beg for more.

We take whatever doctored truth or concocted story the media gives us as gospel truth. We seem to be unable to think for ourselves or do any research to verify the validity of any claims the media makes. We will jump on any bandwagon that comes along, just as long as whatever cause they are advocating is broken down into small enough terms for us to understand without any real mental effort. And as long as there is someone that is willing to sit and patiently spoon feed us their political or religious doctrine with small words and half truths, we will continue to believe and "fight" for that cause.

Once upon a time, this was a country of free thinking people. We were founded because a group of people was tired of being told how to think, how to worship, how to act and how to live their lives. They wanted to be able to have a voice, so they came to a new land and fought to make America a strong, independant nation. I'm pretty sure that every one of our founding fathers would weep to see us now. At some point, we must learn how to think for ourselves again. We have to realize that questioning the decisions of our country's leaders doesn't make us "racist" or a "terrorist". It simply means that we are strong Americans who stand on the same beliefs as our founders did. After all, we are supposed to have a government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people......Personally, I think it's high time we took our government back.