I strongly encourage you to read the opinion piece in today’s Albuquerque Journal by David Pfeffer, candidate for the Republican nomination to run against Jeff Bingaman. Does this guy seem like US Senate material to you?
Like many, Pfeffer dreams of a past moment in America where everything was perfect (for middle-class, middle-aged, and married white males). He yearns to turn the clock back to a time that may never have existed but surely is gone forever. Some vision for the future: look backwards.
A few things should be known by all grown-ups: change is inevitable; on average, there will be both positive and negative consequences to every change; just as you cannot stop change, you may not be able to make change only good. One problem is that what’s good to me may be bad to you and vice versa. If we all agree to accept some good with the bad, we make room for each other. When you insist your good is everything, you shut out other views.
I wish people who agree with Pfeffer would note: I’ve studied some history, I vote, I pay taxes, I obey almost all laws (and think absolutists are either liars or insufferable). I’m tired of those who only see black & white insisting that anyone who sees color is inferior/wrong; people who see nuance, subtlety and flexibility as flaws. I don’t go to church — I was raised to think for myself — but I don’t really mind if others go to church, so long as they don’t get too pushy with their self-claimed moral superiority. I believe I am a decent neighbor, colleague and citizen.
And yet, there is a group of my neighbors, colleagues and fellow citizens who feel I am “what’s wrong with America today” and feel they need to “take back America” from me.
Something for the us all to consider: if you can’t share, you may end up with nothing. mjh
ABQjournal: It’s Time to Take Our Country Back to Real Values By David Pfeffer, Republican Primary Candidate, U.S. Senate
All politics is local, as the saying goes. [mjh: Tip O’Neill is spinning in his grave.] …
I watched as my colleagues [in Santa Fe ] degraded the value of America and much of what being an American means. [mjh: note that only conservatives get to define “what being an American means.” My opinion doesn’t count.] …
… relegation of “family” to whatever you suppose that to be [mjh: yeah, where do people get the right to decide for themselves they are in a loving relationship! That’s for others to decide.]
Whatever happened to America? … And how did “Christian” become a dirty word? [mjh: David, I’m glad you asked — by being self-righteous and smugly sure theirs is the only truth.] …
I don’t know the answers to these questions, but I do know that enough is enough. I want my country back. [mjh: yeah, me, too.]
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See also mjh’s blog — This Week’s WTF
Country Lacking Real Values
WHAT HAVE you bleeding hearts done to my beautiful country?
This includes the mealy-mouthed, two-faced liars that go by the name of Democrats.