Hope or Fear...Who are you?

I just came from a gym a little while ago. When I arrived at the gym for my workout I noticed the F News channel on. As I always do when I notice the F News channel being watched in public I cringed. I refused to let it get me too fired up. Instead I just made an account of the 3 persons who were watching. Two of them were an older white haired couple probably in their late 60's or early 70's....good for them for being at the gym...and the other man was probably in his early to mid 60's....hmmm...

Have you ever been driving down the road and noticed an exceptionally old person driving and looking especially scared as they had the steering wheel in a death grip? Maybe this explains it. It seems that many of us become more scared and more easily scared as we get old. I'm not sure what the percentage of the population is over 60 years old but I would guess about 20-30 percent tops. Work with me here. Bush's approval rating is hovering just above 30 percent. From statistical information of viewership among the major networks the F News channel is somewhere between 8 and 12 percent....hmmm?.....if you roughly add the two groups together, the old and the F News viewers (many are both) you easily arrive at Bush's approval rating.

Bush and the republican controlled congress has done nothing but try and scare us all to death for nearly 6 years now. They have been using their mouth piece, the F News channel as their main source of propaganda.

Now I am left wondering whether it is shame on the Bushies and the F News channel or shame on the old people who were supposed to be our stewards into a better way of life for causing us to end up in this mess (see previous blogs, i.e. Iraq, Katrina, Terri Schiavo, Warrantless wiretaps, Free Speech Zones replacing Free Speech etc.).

Maybe it is both that we should hold responsible......NO.....it is not the fault of old people. Can we blame them. This is the same administration that has supported "Social Security Reform" which understandably scares many of them. This administration has been on watch and continued to support Corporate America over the American citizen while corporate America squanders away the pensions of many of these same elderly people.

I have spent some time at senior citizen centers over the years. Old people for the most part are very cool. They can teach us a lot about being good citizens and good people. Many of them have a great sense of humor and hold real American values.

The shame definitely lies with the Bush crime family and the F News channel. It is time for a change. It is time for a message of Hope. It is time to remember the American Dream and quit living the brainwashed American nightmare of fear, fear, fear that Bush, the republican controlled congress and their mouth piece have been forcing us to relive day after day.

November is just around the corner. Vote like your life depends upon it. Vote like your democracy and freedoms depend upon it because they do. Bring back some checks and balances. Vote democrat.