Yes kids, if you've read even a little bit on Yahoo! Answers you have realized that Americans are BITTERLY DIVIDED as regarding this presidency.
But when someone asks a valid question, is answering to a personal derogatory level (ie: libs are idiots or pubs are idiots, etc) really a rational thing to do? Blind faith should be reserved for sports and religion, not politics. The psychological dynamics behind this hatefulness must be examined.
That said, for myriad reasons I think our country has been taken on the wrong path.
2006-09-11 07:43:43 · 14 answers · asked by AntiDisEstablishmentTarianism 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
shut up dummy - nice for a poster-child to step up.
2006-09-11 07:52:49 · update #1
NO!! Because only a "chimp" could have a chart as sad as this:
http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-11 07:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by mikeygonebad 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes you can, because i am for the war i hear a lot of Bush negative Bush remarks. I dismis the ones where the people call him a chimp or dumbo, because they are unintelligent. I can not dispute all criticisim, some i agree with, but at least do it in a intelligent, articulate manner, if you can.
One example is bad music. I was at a concert where the only thing people could make out from the horrible lyrics was F**K Bush. This led many people to think that the song was great. A friend of mine who happens to be Anti -Bush remarked that the band and all the fans were making him look bad and apologized to me.
2006-09-11 08:32:24 · answer #2 · answered by zorro1701e 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for actually articulating your thoughts in a logical and respectful manner. The Internet is interesting as far as people are for the most part anonymous, therefore they can say things they would not say in real life. They use it as a tool to vent, antagonize, and even degrade people.
In my opinion if you are that vehement about your political beliefs that you can not step back and ask "is this really going okay, are my beliefs valid?"- you are an idealist and that my friend is a waste of time.
The problem is we only have two poor choices- and the bureaucracy is so deep that it wont change. It is a broken train waiting to be derailed.
2006-09-11 07:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by adrixia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand that you realize influencing the path of our country is a multi-faceted undertaking. Your specific issue with constructive discussion centers on communication skills. I would refer people to the book Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall Rosenberg. It would be a start if we could simply illustrate better communications to all participants. Forums such as Yahoo answers should not allow name calling.
2006-09-11 07:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by Marsh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if the people doing the talking is educated. Education means they would have to listen to all sides of every story and make a decision based on what is most likely the truth. There are way to many people out there that only watch CNN or only watch Fox news and make a snap decision on what is heard.
Hard to say why people in America quit thinking for himself.
2006-09-11 07:50:20 · answer #5 · answered by Jeremy H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is perfectly natural to question that which you don't agree with. Political discourse can be constructive, and really it is foundation our country is built on. Unfortunately too many people of both sides stoop to the lowest common denominator (name calling). I have come to accept that people who hate Mr. Bush are going to use epithets all too often to describe him. What bothers me though is that on both sides of the issue we cannot agree to disagree. People on both sides cannot accept that the other side has a valid right to form and express opinions. I cannot find anything constructive about bashing the other side, nor do I believe it adds anything of value to the discussion. However, you cannot convince people that engaging in this type of behavior only hurts your position.
2006-09-11 08:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by Bryan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure. People just need to think about their answers and how to phrase them. I can get pretty vocal when it come s to ploitics but I have never revirted ro calling anyone names or not respected their views. So actually it is possible. And yes we are a nation clearly divided more than you think.
2006-09-11 07:48:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well said and even well intetioned i agree with you on the mater of maturity in this forum and i agree with you about being lead done wrong path howevr there is a way out
even though the popular vote no longer elects a president the people who we empower in the up coming mid term will so go vote but inform yourself on who you vote for by resaerching there political view points and dont listen to what they are going to do for you remember we tell them what their going to do for us not the other way around
2006-09-11 07:54:00 · answer #8 · answered by matthew_yelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are uninformed in general, and they don't have real facts to back things up. Name-calling is an easy fallback.
2006-09-11 07:49:53 · answer #9 · answered by cay_damay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do it for a lack of answer. That's why so many prison inmates can't read...lack of education breeds hatred, and that hatred stems from self-loathing for not being educated. Viscious cycle. Psychological enough for ya? ;)
2006-09-11 07:47:00 · answer #10 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, because people dont have any facts, they just point fingers and name call.
2006-09-11 07:44:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋