A simple way to take the measure of a country is to look at.....how
many want in.......and how many want out
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Please don't draw false conclusions about how I feel about this country. I love this country and I am an involved caring citizen in the community. I contribute my time and energy outside my job, to community services, culture and qovernment.
What irritates me is the "Dumbing Down" the realities that we all are a part of. When someone makes an oversimplifies statement that states only part of a truth, or implies a cause and effect relationship that makes a great sound bite when in fact the relationship is far more complex, perhaps correlated but not caused, its important that we don't lose our ability as citizens to drill down to the real truth.
The point I'm trying to make is that I'm very concerned that much of our citizenry has given up on making the effort to drill down to the real truth. The sound bite is enough factual information for them to carry because in fact it is short, sweet and precise. If we as a citizenry rely just on sound bites and one sentence wisdom as our only source of truth, God help us!! Ant that, sir is my main point and concern.
The Al Queda wanting in to blow us up example was simply to refute the initial assertion on the grounds that it was way to oversimplified as a statement of truth. A severe generalization that distorts truth.
DB