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Strategies & Market Trends : Buy and Sell Signals, and Other Market Perspectives

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (6370)	6/29/2010 1:20:57 PM
From: Joe Smith	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 222711

I don't see what he has written there to deserve such scorn. You may disagree with it, but why attack the man who wrote it? Politics depends on the fact that there are two sides of the coin. Flipping coins would be awfully boring if both sides were heads. It seems a very well-reasoned article in favor of his theories about how to handle a downturn. You may not agree with it, but dismissing it only results in a kind of tunnel vision that harms yourself above all. Different political views often come from very different social backgrounds. For instance, the red states and the blues states have very different societal norms and cultural values. The large urban areas of the coastal cities in particular breed very different values from the rest of the nation. There is nothing "wrong" with the values of either coastal dwellers or interior dwellers. What is wrong is when those values are exported to areas where they do not resonate. That is why we end up with a ridiculous situation even amongst a conservative Supreme Court that espouses local control telling crime-ridden areas with overmatched police forces that they cannot control gun ownership or meddling in the 2000 election. On the flip side, the federal government is unreasonable when they craft legislation that forces people to lay down guns that are such an important part of their own cultural norms. What is most important is that we avoid hating each other and dismissing each other's views as somehow idiotic or baseless. This leads to the kind of fascism of a McCarthy, Hitler, or Mussolini. Effective politics and the good policy that ensues depends on both sides actually listening to each other. The reason that the political sphere is so ineffective is that both sides refuse to even listen to each other right now. Nations at Civil War do not tend to serve their citizens well. And saddest of all is that our citizens are tricked into fighting these wars so that the super-rich can steal their money as they inflate bubble after bubble while the populace is distracted.

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