Our poor old world has personal problems.

[SoCalDem]

I guess now that most of the "free world" has enough to eat, and time on our hands, it was inevitable.

EVERYTHING personal is now public, and once the prigs among us peer into the lives of everyone else, it's not surprising that we have arrived at our current place.

There was a time when religion, politics and lifestyles were personal issues, to be kept in the family or our immediate circle.

Everything is fair game these days, and there are many people ready to document every last "personal outrage".

There's a difference between being informed, and being a butt-in-ski.

What's it to me if there are people in my neighborhood who believe different things?
What's it to me if a woman I don't know, decides to have an abortion?
What's it to me if a Muslim woman wears a veil...or doesn't?
What's it to me if an airport wants to have Christmas trees or a Menorah...or a flaming rabbit on a cross?
What's it to me if my neighbors are gay?
What's it to me if Brittney wears underpants/or not?

National politics HAVE to be aimed at the "common"..not the individual.

We do have individual rights, but those rights need to be exercised AS individuals..not to make OTHER people live and think like WE do.

The right wingers have perfected the mechanism to make everything upside down and backwards.

Schools are for "book-learnin"..and churches are for "religious learnin".

Even if you think YOUR faith is the best thing since sliced bread, it should not be right to abuse anyone who does not think the same thing....nor should it be your lifelong mission to convert everyone else.

Our governmental body is for us ALL..not just the narrow niche of people who believe what the "leader" believes.

99% of us probably had mothers who told us to "do unto others, as we would have them do unto us" (or something close to that).


I long for the day when a politicain has the courage to state that he is a spiritual person, but refuses to discuss his faith..or to expect others to "follow him".

Th messianic monster we have now should be a beacon to politicans...for what NOT to do.

I don't need to see my president (or candidate) carrying around a bible or trying to "out-Jesus" all the other candidates at every speech. I don't need to see them pray..

Religion is clannish by nature, and separates us. What always amazes me it that the reactionary neo-cons who apparently long for the "good ole days" have forgotten that back then people (in the US) did NOT focus on religion. People went to their churches on Sunday, and Monday through Saturday, they were secular people.

I have friends whom I have known for 40 years, and I don't even KNOW what faith they are.. It just is not an issue.

In math, we have the "lowest common denominator" to help solve math problems, and that's sort of what we need in politics.

It's way past time that we refocus on the "common" needs of us all, and back away from the "personal".

We need to quit being the world's biggest busybody, and set out to fix what's wrong with US.

The "commons" has been neglected and we are all worse for it.

Our school system is suffering.. We have millions of people who are sick and have no real access to medical care...our non-rich kids has lost access to college...our elders must wade through mountains of paperwork to get medicine they often cannot afford.. children are homeless..40 year old breadwinners are finding themselves at square one when their jobs "end"...

We have big problems to solve, and the smokescreen that is hyper-religiosity is obscuring the hard work we have to do.

There's an old saying about familiarity breeding contempt...I think we are THERE..