Someone told me yesterday that I was losing them--"them" meaning a loyal blog follower and a few of her friends.
"You've been putting too much emphasis on politics", she said.
She's right, and she's wrong, according to my way of thinking. Her observation is correct--there has been an emphasis on politics over the past eight or nine months. But "too much"? That's something for individual readers to decide.
The reason, the rationale, for the frequent political coverage and commentary is the belief that, at this time, politics is at least as important a subject as any other.
This is an election year--a Presidential election year. The ratings for the 19 Republican Presidential debates aired thus far are proof positive of the public's eagerness for political news and commentary.
But the most important fact of the matter is that politics--especially Presidential politics--has a direct effect on every area of American life. Who we vote for determines what we are voting for. And what we vote for determines the circumstances and conditions under which we will live.
A wide range of varied, important issues, including--but not limited to--taxes, interest rates, government regulations, job creation, gay rights, abortion, health care, gun control, foreign aid, national defense, and immigration are all directly affected by who we vote for.
Everything about everyday life is determined by politics.
Friday, February 3, 2012
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Admit it, Bill! You're a CNN junkie, and you can't help yourself from covering politics. Have you read any good books lately? You can download a free Kindle for PC from Amazon and buy books to read for less than $10 each. I am sure many of your readers would gladly gift you Kindle books that they've enjoyed via the web. So, maybe it's time to broaden your horizons a bit. I have some suggestions: Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer, War of the Worldview by Deepak Chopra and Leon Mlodinow, Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkings, Sex on Six Legs:Lessons of Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World by Marlene Zuk, The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack, Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges, and I could go on. Maybe you could review some books you've read and broaden all our horizons.
ReplyDeleteTo the lady with the privately made comment that she is fed up with reading about politics: Please, madam, why don't you make you concerns known to us all by availing yourself of the opportunity to COMMENT as I am now doing.