Being open to learning everything you can is an esteemable act. How easy it is to become a mental loafer--just buying into any and everything others want to you know, rather than having the courage to research and gather the facts for yourself. It's easy to buy into the spin and the manipultaion. But as smart folks you know that a politician who, for years, has not cared about the working class, only big business, big pharmaceuticals, etc, but now wants to convince us they care about us--we know better.
On CNN tonight I heard a Republican strategist say something I believe, but was shocked he said it, "in polictics our job is to take the other side off guard and force them to spend time defending something, even if it's not true." It's the law of distraction. "The American people say they hate dirty politics, but when we play dirty, we win. That's the way the game's played."
