“I just have the tendency to join any anti-obama, liberal, amnesty, etc., because those are just my views and I like to read their posts and articles. Sorry if you got offended about me joining a facebook group”

This is a little piece of a conversation i had with a relative of mine. Now i understand it, i join some groups just to read their posts and comment, it’s fun and the internet allows me to do that. But i think it highlights a good point about activism, but more acutely, the whole tea party deal. The willingness to passionately oppose a single person or a set of ideologies on a whim, without any thinking or factual basis, or whatever, and then to accept that those are “political views” is exactly what, i think, will ruin our politcal culture. Now i would be naive to think it just started now, it has been present all through american history, but this is my time, and so i feel its burden strongly. 

The worst part is this is a respectable, smart guy, who i happen to think is pretty cool. Democracy has died, even in the best of people. It is up to us to bring it back.