Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass Politically are we hypocrites? I don't see how we could be described any other way. When you have partyline splits on votes in Washington then somebody is being a hypocrite because it is virtually impossible for everyone to lock in step on a given issue because of party affiliation. This just about negates all of congress for me. If party line splits were only reserved for issues that define the differences in ideology perhaps our children at the Capitol would be more credible to me, but that just ain't the way things happen. Is democracy the shining light for all of the world as we say? Doubtful. Democracy only seems to work for those who desired it long before it was given to them. We've spread our influence over the globe and preached to the heathens that the only way they can have peace, prosperity, and happiness is to engage and practice in democracy, then wondrous things will happen. When a democratic form of government is forced on a people before it's their idea, and the result not in our plan is achieved, we are confused, as in Palestine. When the good people went to the polls, they voted for the bad guys, and we are agog and angry about it. We say we're just not gonna give them any more of our money and see how they like that! We have been made to look like fools by fools. We should be able to understand any society that is given to a cleric or religious based government isn't going to give up what they went to bed with at night and arose with in the morning would change what they feel and believe just because they can or because we say so. The election of Hamas by the Palestinians didn't surprise this Dumb Ass in the least. And when the Iraqi's refuse to give up their life long dedication of what they've been in exchange for what we percieve they should be, I won't be the least bit surprised about that either. We do not have a good record of reality when it comes to running other people's lives and countries. Democracy must be something that burns in your soul before it can be had. The only fires we've caused in the world in recent history are those created by our arrival and followed by those in protest. When we exhaust our resources and our spirit trying to run the world, we'll find the world to be pretty much politically what it was prior to our meddling, and oddly enough, we'll remain democratic, and someone who doesn't appreciate our philosophy of governing will have the power, and we'll be a story for history....... as the Romans were................