Right and Wrong
Last night, I started writing a second blog entry about my disgust with the current US political system. This entry was started at around 1:30 AM or so, which means the writing isn't my best. I do have it, and could easily complete and edit it if I so chose.
However, I don't choose to take that route. I still believe that almost everybody who is staunchly on one side of the line in our two-party system hasn't really looked at the other side's point of view, but that doesn't really matter. Today's XKCD pretty much put it into perspective for me:
It made me chuckle out loud at first, and then I thought more seriously about what I had just written hours before. I came to the realization that there's nothing you can do to change people's minds. In their mind, they're fighting the same battle you are, believing they're right and you are wrong. It's just a fact of life; everyone's got their battles that they pick because they're right. It's what makes this country as great as it is. And though I disagree with the viewpoints of some, the principles of freedom which the USA were founded on allow them to have their opinions, no matter how bone-headed they may seem.
This entry has 3 comments:
Brian says:
Dan: It's linked to on the home page, but not from individual pages: http://www.briantusi.com/blog/feeds/latest/Dan says:
Offtopic: Where did your RSS feed get off to? You stopped showing up in my aggregator and now I cannot find a feed. :(
Tyler says:
Here here!