On my drive home from work today I was listening to talk radio and heard a caller make this comment. “I would like to see America rise again to be the greatest nation in the world. And for that to happen, the American people are going to have to come together and stop tearing each other apart.”
I would hope that most people could see the absurdity of this statement on its face, but the idea seems to have some traction with quite a few people. John Steward even won the “who can stage the biggest rally” contest on this theme. Of course what they are really saying even though they don't seem to realize it is “I don't care about politics, so nobody else should either”. I'm willing to bet that most people who spout this ridiculous platitude when press on the specific issues would find that they have an opinion, and get angry at you if you expressed the opposite opinion.
If the problem with this statement is still not clear, I'll use an analogy to explain it. Say that the country was a race track. Everyone wants to cars on the track to go faster, but they can't agree on how to do it. Some people want to make the track surface as flat and even as possible without losing traction. Others want to install as many speed bumps as they can. The way for these people to reach their goal of making their race track the best in the world again is not to come together and make some stupid compromise. The way forward is for the one group to fight the other until they've removed all the speed bumps those idiots put on the track.
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