Having long been a precinct committee person, and County Chair (party doesn’t really matter) I’ve felt like going into that maze for, well, about the last three years!
What bothers me more than just “politics” is the fact that while Tim McViegh and Eric Rudolph had short lived fame as domestic terrorists, bin Laden hit a bases loaded home run on 9/11 for fear, not actual “terrorism”.
From airplanes to Zika, Americans are supposed to fear EVERYTHING, with a minor basis for real fear, though awareness isn’t a bad thing. When a guy in a mall with a knife, or blowing up a couple garbage containers with a minor number of injuries, sends a whole country, or at least the media, into a total panic, we’ve lost reality.
Think for a moment about living in Aleppo, Bagdhad, Ghaza, West Bank, or several African nations where daily life makes a mockery of our fears.
Our politics is a matter of avoidance in that field. Our “war on terrorism” has spawned a fear of life, and a demand to throw our rights, responsibilities, and courage, into the trash.
Having long been a precinct committee person, and County Chair (party doesn’t really matter) I’ve felt like going into that maze for, well, about the last three years!
What bothers me more than just “politics” is the fact that while Tim McViegh and Eric Rudolph had short lived fame as domestic terrorists, bin Laden hit a bases loaded home run on 9/11 for fear, not actual “terrorism”.
From airplanes to Zika, Americans are supposed to fear EVERYTHING, with a minor basis for real fear, though awareness isn’t a bad thing. When a guy in a mall with a knife, or blowing up a couple garbage containers with a minor number of injuries, sends a whole country, or at least the media, into a total panic, we’ve lost reality.
Think for a moment about living in Aleppo, Bagdhad, Ghaza, West Bank, or several African nations where daily life makes a mockery of our fears.
Our politics is a matter of avoidance in that field. Our “war on terrorism” has spawned a fear of life, and a demand to throw our rights, responsibilities, and courage, into the trash.
Let’s vote AGAINST fear!