Is it ok to Talk Politics?
When I was a kid growing up, I remember my dad talking politics almost everywhere he went. Today, people tell you to avoid talking about religion and politics. How did we get so far a skew in such a short amount of time?
To give you some back ground. I supported Ford, my dad was for Carter. We were both together four years later in supporting Regan, but he voted for Clinton and I voted for Perot. His last election would have been Bush v Gore, but he passed away seven months before the election.
With politics and some people, things seem to always get personal. Is this a symptom of us as a nation avoiding the conversations in public forums? It seems like the same people who discourage talking politics in open forums are quick to bash whomever they don’t like in semi-private situations. Over the years I’ve work in big companies and small companies. In one of my recent places of employment I was the ONLY conservative out of 40 employees. I took my lickings, but I never shied away from a good political discussion; the problem however, was some of my co-workers seemed to hate me for my views. Could this be why people are discouraged from talking politics?
Why should any American be ashamed or fearful of their personal believes? Are we not still the land of the free and home of the brave? Or have we become the land of the bashful and home of the afraid?
I would like McCain to win, but if Obama wins the world will not end–there will be far fewer rich people footing the brunt of the bill, but America will survive. Let us step out into the field of politics and bravely state our opinion and then when the dust settles go back to being one nation under god, in divisible with liberty and justice for all!
Ed Bejarana