Raw intellect and information are NOT enough!
What happened to “informed debate”?
No, not political speeches! Not “analyst’s” reports! Not more “opinions” or commentators’s reflections!
We want more “facts” that are suitable for public discourse (nothing to hurt our “real national security”)!
If an individual can run a company, become a “professional” doctor, lawyer or professor, if he can read or reason; he is becoming less enchanted with the “drivel” he is able to receive. He is becoming more “dropped out”, more “disconnected”, every day. He is giving up the hope that the Constitution and the Legal system can be influenced by his vote or his concern. He is, by this National deficiency, becoming more introverted, more for himself, more “selfish”!
The so-called “intellects” are unknowingly becoming LESS influential, less relevant! The so-called “ordinary citizens” are changing the attitudes, their hopes for the future. Yes.... we are loosing the future!
The so-called “power structure”, the so-called “informed” are losing their audience!
A person (or couple, of course...) that can work, raise a family, prepare for a future must be able to “THINK”!
What we hear from the media is a constant refrain of opinion, some informed, some with “unfounded resources”. The “internet” has become an unfathomable source of invective, distortions and truths. These are all placed in a cauldron of “misunderstanding” and “confusion”! Which or Who do you believe?
We are all looking for guidance! What we are receiving is such a mixture of communication that we are confused. We “drop out”.
We are looking for “Leadership”! People who have the good of the people in mind. We don’t need more
”information” .... we need some people to translate what we are already receiving.... some one(s) we can trust!
There are already too many challenges to the meaning of law and order, too many challenges to the meaning of the Constitution. The basics of the definition of Education, of Standard of Living, of the American way....all need translation by someone(s) we trust!!!!!
The people of America are dividing.... dividing in their interest of their allegiance and support of the American way of life. They are confused by the mass of un-translated communications. We need a “translator” we can trust!
Mere policy, mere unfounded information, mere opinion are things we DON”T need! We don’t need to have someone tell us how to live, what to buy, what to think! Give us a TRANSLATER we can trust so we can make up our own minds. (By the way, we also understand you can’t commit murder or run through a red light!) We realize that Democracy has some restrictions in order to survive!)
What we CAN do is to be a good “translator”, NOT a gossip, NOT just a repeater of misinformation. Individually we must try to reason what are “facts”, what is a reasoned position. We must listen to other opinions and policies and, at least, learn what the “opposition’s point of view is. We must learn to better “communicate”, to define, to honestly debate NOT just argue.
Can you be of HELP?
What happened to “informed debate”?
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