I’ve been biting off more than I could chew today, so I haven’t had time for a single post until just now, when I find myself all worn out with nothing to say.
However, the other day I posted a YourTube video about biting off more than you can chew:
Nearly half of the country now thinks the federal government is treating citizens the way the baby snapping turtle treated his mealworm.
49% of Americans believe the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. In 2003, less than a third (30%) believed this.
At least the turtle has an excuse.
And the federal government is not cute.
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The political ground is shifting beneath us, but most pols Left and Right haven’t realized it yet. The information explosion that is the internet makes it difficult to control the narrative
anymore and the pols and their syncophants in the MSM can’t keep ahead of it anymore.
And the Left’s response to the TEA Party, basically painting them as racists and/or enemies of the state, may play into this change of view toward the government too. Intuitively, when defense of the status quo can’t be achieved via argumentation, but only through demonization of the critics of the status quo, people come to understand that there may be something amiss with the status quo.
Factor in the heavy-handed health care reform by the Dems, and it’s not surprising, to me any way, that more and more folks are seeing the light with regards to the dangers of a huge, powerful, centralized governmental authority.
That 49% is heartening but I’d like to see it up to around 75%.
75% would really be 100% because around 25% will never admit it because they’re rooting for it.
Too true Veeshir.