Citizens Divided

     It is no secret that nothing divides the nation more than a good election.  But never before has it been as bad.  I'm not talking about the level of partisanship, our economy or our environment.  I am talking about the adds.  They are on every channel every hour of every day.  Be it on TV or on the radio, they are everywhere.

     There is one good thing about all this though.  Not only does it show why Super-Pacs should be illegal, but  why campaigns should be publicly financed.  We the people have no Public Forum beyond the media, therefore every idea and agenda should be allowed to have the same amount of time opportunity to be discussed.
 
    And I do mean every idea, be it democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, communist or facism (nazisim).  I am confident that the ideology that is both morally right and realistically sound will be chosen by the American people.

     This would allow more people to speak, thus ensuring a free society.  Right now the money of the few drowns out the voices of the many.  I fear for my country, it doesn't matter how many voices speak, if only one or two can be heard, than it is bad for America, and her people.

Revisionist History And It's Attack On Virtue

     One of the things that I love about history is how it can be debated, how open to interpretation it remains, as if it was a poem to be dissected mercilessness with all the subtly that a high school English class process's.  But one thing that disturbs me is revisionist history, making up facts and presenting them as historical facts.  It is slightly disturbing, and it continues to happen without much of a public response.

     The founding fathers of our nation are given near Olympian status, we forget that they were but men with many faults, who never claimed to be gods and were more then ready to declare their own human frailty and did realize that to err is to be human.  They could not create a perfect system but they endeavored to create one that would produce the greatest possible results, and the methods to check it should it ever overstep it's bounds.

     If we acknowledge this simple fact then we can be better citizens, and better people, enrich our society in the way that truly matters.  We can live in a land ruled by virtue should we so chose, without a terror, for the informed citizen is the citizen who process's virtue.  It is in this aspect in which I do b believe Robespierre to be incorrect.   Virtue without terror is not powerless, for the enlightened citizen is the citizen who will safeguard the republic.