Voting against the grain

If the truth be known many politicians would NOT be in congress. However the sad story is the truth is known but ignored by many voters. Therefore congressmen and women are still in congress regardless. Regardless of voters knowing the truth but voting ideology and for campaign slogans instead of facts. Disregarding the real truth but willing to choose to support the party-line instead of social and economic reality. How do you put that on a bumper sticker?

“Truth + politics = misrepresentation” Or, “You get what you pay for.”
Or, how about a yard sign? “I voted for the guy. Now how do I get rid of him.” Or, “ Had I only listened.”

ThinkAboutIt...

It is most difficult to understand how political and religious fervor blinds one to the truth. Setting up a firewall between rational thinking and dogma. A partition holding back lucidity away from muddy thinking. Ignorance resisting learning. “What, me worry?”

CRA 2012

Letter to our Editor: Tulsa World

Letter to the Editor: Robot-like adherence. E.K. Sharp, Tulsa. When President Barack Obama announced that our armed forces will leave Iraq before year's end, Republican representatives in Congress denounced his decision as being premature and unwise. This latest denouncement follows a pattern I have been observing about the Republicans, who are automatically opposed to anything said or done by our president. This, sadly, leads me to the conclusion that bringing down the president is fast becoming more important to them than what is best for our country. Robot-like adherence to a party line in issues is hardly what a party system of government is meant to be. The almost instant criticism by the Republicans of the president's decision makes me wonder whether they would have likewise criticized the judgment of President Obama in this matter if the president had, instead, announced that our troops would stay in Iraq longer. I try not to pay attention to the sneaky feeling in my gut that they would. We need members of Congress to vote their consciences instead of blindly voting the party line. Letters to the editor are encouraged. Send letters to letters@tulsaworld.com..