I appreciate the fact you’re willing to communicate your views in an open forum. As a result, I hope you’re willing to take advantage of a great opportunity that is in front of you: an opportunity to further develop your view of the world and offer constructive solutions to its problems. I plan to comment further in another post on why I fundamentally disagree with many of your views but with this post I only want to focus on one thing: your (apparent) bifurcated view of politics and the world. To me, it appears that you have latched onto the dichotomy of politics, Democrats versus Republicans, blue versus red. It is almost like you’ve taken the rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma and applied it to the political world. You’ve latched onto ONE team and would rather be caught dead than cheering for the other side.

Referencing your Republican Manifesto post, you are long on rhetoric and short on substance. It is my belief that people today would rather be entertained than educated (hence why the Bill O’Reillies of the world are so popular). I see a common thread in your posts where you are trying to leverage the Bill O’Reilly model of political discourse in an effort to garner public support. It just doesn’t work for me.

“Obama’s insincere proselytizing isn’t going solve anything in the Gulf. It just left us with gushing oil well in the gulf that needs to be plugged, and another in Obama’s face that needs to be stopped up as well.”

–Byron, you can do better than this. You are smarter than this. Let’s create a forum that can truly foster solutions to the problems we face. I put the ball in your court; you decide how you want to proceed.