Originally Posted by Doodlegirl

The reality of this world is difference. Likeness and difference. When I don't like the way you say something, the way you betray something, the way
you think about something, I tell YOU. And, you get nervous and norvous.
What is fortunate for all of us is we ultimately find ourselves in the voting
booth. Alone. There we take the aggragate of our feelings, knowledge, and attitude, and we make a choice. I don't need you to "educate" me, I'm quite
happy with the 30 years I spent in schoo and my long and astonishing career thereafter;, what I need you to do is look outward, toward other people, other people's feelings and attitudes. Therein is the openess of government that our forefathers hoped would live and langusish here. The more blunt and argumentative you become, the angrier you make the outside world.

If you would spend more time inner directed than outer directed, our world would be a better place. Just because we can talk without being in the same room or neighborhood, doesn't mean we cannot speak with our own
confidence and belief without fear of being taken to the hanging tree. I do
appreciate your right, and the right of the right leaning posters here to spread your feelings, but I also ask you to take responsibility for that which
you may say which is in terrible disharmony with democratic, social, and
emotional ideals and the well being of many, including our Country. While
an Independent, I tend to lean more to the left after a lifetime of trying to
"fix" things. The bottom line is you hurt my feelings, hurt my education, hurt
my substantial change on several systems which effect children and families.

I, too, have my feelings, have a right to those, and feel hollow when the opposition, so to speak, languishes in the menu du jour. Several posters here have tried to ask you to do so, however, it seems an impossibility. Until you have been in the halls of Congress, been in conference with the multi dimensional White House, dealt with both the Democratic and Republican
junta of the last 30 years, then I don't think you educate, rather you
theocrat. You become, as has been said, T.C. Mits. The Common Man In the Streets. I have worked too hard in my career to be in those shoes.
My brain is solidly in it's boney cabvity sitting on tall shoulders of change that make all of our lives better by work, not by talk.