It does make you wonder about people in general....

[NRaleighLiberal]

This morning on my way to the Farmers Market I tuned on Weekend Update on NPR, and Scott Simon was talking to three media members reporting from the middle east and discussing Syria, Egypt and Tunisia. They were talking about how the election in Egypt looks to be ending up as a run off between the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and someone who is more aligned with the former Mubarak regime. And the comment was "this is not something that is likely to represent the will of the people"

I thought about that a bit and compared it to the elections in this country, especially when compared with the plight of most people. So many people voting against their best interests and ensuring that someone that they elect governs counter to their true needs.

I suspect that the answers to each of the situations - Egypt and the US - are quite different (for the US, so much of it is one issue or misinformed or uninformed voters being brainwashed by endless ads or the stuff they hear from the pulpit in church). But....doesn't it make you kind of shake your head in wonder and ponder whether people are just hard-wired to put themselves into the muck - rather than take every opportunity afforded to make things better for themselves?

In so many ways, human beings are so deeply flawed! Greed, jealousy, deceit, laziness - and I suspect it has always been this way.

Makes me also realize that those of us who do try, strive for more, seek progress and improvement are in many ways just banging our heads against a wall, in a world being held back by the big glut of people who don't or can't really care.

That's it for my Saturday rant......feeling better now! Back to dig in the garden.

[calimary]

1. I know how you feel.

Seeing that damn Debbie Wasserman Schultz story where she's all but conceding Wisconsin and claiming it's gonna mean nothing - Man, she has her head so high up her ass it's all the way back up on top of her neck again. Just what our Dems do - hire a naif. A head-in-the-sand idiot who just assumes that because our side believes in the good among people and reason and willingness to reach out, that means the enemy does, too. AND THEY DON'T. They just aren't wired that way. They're ruthless bloodthirsty carnivores. You're not dealing with hamsters, Debbie. You're dealing with great white sharks - which view creatures like hamsters as mere snacks. And they see you as just another hamster. I think she assumes even the worst of them has better angels that can be reached somehow. And she's kidding herself. They don't HAVE any better angels on that side. Those have already been silenced and/or driven out, or eaten alive.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. thanks - an appropriate addendum to my rant! and I agree with you.

[lunatica]

3. I couldn't believe what she was saying either but

it makes me realize that we've been wrong all along to say the Democrats in Congress are spineless. They aren't. They're really convinced that what they do is the right thing to do and deluded into believing that things will magically fix themselves or that this is actually business as usual. I think they're not very visionary nor do they have much imagination, which seems to be one of the main characteristics of DU members. They say the words but still have wool pulled over their eyes. You can usually tell which are the ones who get it. They're the ones who are pulling their hair out and yelling from the rooftops only to be dismissed as eccentric or too Liberal or as Progressives, too full of idealism and not realistic. Ironic isn't it?

[calimary]

4. Yeah. Ours get drummed out of the party, too.

Alan Grayson comes to mind. Russ Feingold. Hell, even Howard Dean didn't get the respect he deserved.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

5. Yep, yep, yep

and yep. Right on the money like all your posts.

[KoKo]

6. Get the Alternative Media....why so many DU'ers don't use it...I don't know..but..

X-Box, ROKU and many other alternatives for watching the GLOBAL MEDIA...that we here are denied on our expensive Cable Subscriptions to be able to access Foreign News Sights.

Since we are a GLOBAL ECONOMY...according to most all of our Presidents from Carter on...then WHY are we in the USA denied access on Cable to Global Media?

Why did I finally get so sick and tired of the disgusting ads and Chatter and Chirpiness from American Cable Media that I sought an alternative?

The International sites Buffer Constantly...but, being "clever" one can work around. But, the New Movement is to access Media from Around the World either Online or through "other means" and I sleep better at night since I have it.

BUT...back to my first thought. If USA is GLOBAL in ECONOMY and OUR GLOBAL WARS...then why are AVERAGE AMERICANS denied these resources?

WHY?