Comments on: Politics and Religion

By: MITCHELL

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By: seapea

seapea — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:53:35 +0000

Oh, Gosh! We haven’t even started on theocracy. Government and religion. What is the Iranian theocracy doing to its flock tonight?

Edd, do you consider strong opinions to be unintelligent and immature? No, of course you don’t. It’s the style of argument, isn’t it? I’m afraid I often offend people when I argue my considered opinions.

By: seapea

seapea — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:34:18 +0000

I don’t think a democratic political system is necessarily in conflict with ‘socialist’ public health and welfare economic programs (e.g. Social Security). The problem is that a democracy can only function in the public interest if the public has free access to a wide range of sources of information and if the public is educated enough to think critically. Sometimes it seems to me that a lot of Americans are only educated in consumerism and believe the political messages that they hear most often and most loudly.

In a democratic political system, we could elect those that profess a conviction that universal, single-payer health-care makes sense, economically and socially. The scandal is that not enough of us can figure out that the insurance companies ‘own’ our elected officials. I’ve e-mailed all of my reps and senators (state and national) to tell them that if they don’t support single-payer, not only will I not vote for them, I will work against them in coming elections. They’ve always written back. Unfortunately, they know that if the lobbyists give them enough $$, they can saturate the media with a slick ad that will get them re-elected, no matter how they vote.

Yipes, I could go on and on. It all comes down to critical thinking by the public. And I don’t mean that if people thought about it, they’d agree with me. I mean, ……well, you probably have an idea what I mean by now.

By: Turtleholmes

Turtleholmes — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:54:27 +0000

Yes! See, I’ve had trouble telling people I know that political systems could be better if we incorporated good bits from other ones, but they just wouldn’t listen.

The only problem is that things might contradict each other, but even that can be resolved eventually.

I agree with El, though. It won’t happen because *sarcasm* Democracy is Perfect, remember? */sarcasm*

By: El

El — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:38:55 +0000

You’re right, the political system should just be called American and tweaked at need… unfortunately, that makes so much sense that I doubt anything resembling that will ever happen (this is politics, after all). Thanks for your opinion, though – I agree with you completely.