Do People Listen To Themselves Speak......

[rsmith6621]

....Even more do people consider what they are saying before they speak it....

..........This morning I punched in and then was told that I was going to do a route check so I go to the airport, go through The THOUSANDs STANDING AROUND line get on the flight sit in the Cockpit and fly 500 miles downline...I get to my destination and open the CP door and wait for people to leave and then head in to the terminal for a snack for the way back...

Anyhow I get behind two women who where strangers when one ask the other (they sat together)...It was a pretty interesting week for Gonzo wasn't it. The other women responded I'm sorry I don't pay attention to politics it is so corrupt I stopped paying attention back in the Clinton administration and haven't voted since(96)....Well as luck would have it the uninvolved women walks into the same gift shop I walked in to get a snack for her connection flight so I put my badges away and pick up a paper and found my way behind her..she looked back at me and my opening statement was ....did you have a good flight..yes she said..I pointed to an article about Gonzo to be probed for perjury she said she doesn't follow politics....I then said I overheard your conversation up the jet bridge and said to her you think that politics are corupted yes she said....I asked her if distancing herself fixes the issue no she said but it doesn't matter what we do they'll do what they want...I asked her if she supported the occupation of Iraq and the $$$ being spent there....no.
I said did you know that if 10 percent of the people like yourself would have voted in 2000 it's likely we may not be there.....Yah that possible she replied....

I then finished saying just like the politicians when we give up on the system we to become corrupt and the system you avoid participating in does get its way...she asked me how she is corrupt I said you are corupted with apathy and mediocrity........ a pause and then a dash to her flight...

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Paragraph breaks and quotation marks, please.

There might be a good story here, but it's a chore to plow through this bramble-strewn mess of verbiage to find it.

[BlackVelvet04]

2. Do people try to read

what they wrote?

[IChing]

3. They are both part of the problem and part of the solution

I would have tried to go to the positive at the end after admonishing them.
I got people to vote in the last election who thought this way.

[hfojvt]

4. it's the cult of personality

One older woman told me she worked really hard to elect a certain candidate and then he ended up being a crook (no, it was not Nixon, it was some local official). So she was turned off of politics. My thing, though, is issues. Even if Edwards is phony, as some on the left and right charge, the issues he is promoting are excellent. I work for a candidate because I approve of his policies, his message.

Yet the entire public sphere, and maybe its a post-Nixon thing, is obsessed with attacking the messenger. The vast rightwing conspiracy did not like Clinton or many of his policies (although he promoted NAFTA and welfare 'reform', he also vetoed two Republican welfare-reform bills and threatened other vetoes). Rather than work against the policies they did not like or work to defeat him in 1996, they attacked him. Discredit the messenger, and the message is discredited too. Or believers in the message get discouraged, leaving the playing field to the more fanatical rightwing base.

[Mythsaje]

6. I'm more policy-driven myself.

I make a terrible cheerleader.

I also believe in what Edwards is talking about, which is why I support him. What he has to say is IMPORTANT, probably at least as important as any of the other issues being bandied about on the public stage right now.

[Mythsaje]

5. "If you don't do politics, politics will certainly DO you."

:evilgrin: