I’m not typically one to participate in the public debate. I have my opinions, I change them in the face of good argument and reason, and in recent years have become disillusioned with the prospect of trying to convince others why they’re wrong/I’m right. Plus, here at Georgetown about 95% of the student body is smarter and better informed than me. But hey, at least I can lift heavy things.
Nonetheless, the one thing I am not reticent to share my opinion about is hackery, on both sides of the aisle. Just as the most offensive, teeth-clenching thing to me as a Christian is some redneck asshole from Hillsboro Baptist Church holding a sign reading “God hates fags,” it incenses me when political puppets take what could be an informative, reasoned, beneficial debate, attach their party line, and turn it into schoolyard name calling. Obama doesn’t hate freedom, Bush didn’t hate black people, and General Patreus didn’t “betray us.”
Take for example the video below, which my roommates and I can’t stop watching. Kevin James has no idea what he’s talking about, he’s just repeating some line the polarizing establishment fed him, if only guys like him got called out more often:
Then of course you have our old friend Sean Hannity, who Read more…
