If politics is a science, I need a different microscope

I had a guy tell me one time, “Ron, it’s not your fault you know nothing about politics.”

Of course my replay was, “Huh?”

He went on to tell me how he has a degree in Political Science and only people with said degree are experts on politics.

“Really?”

I’m not making it up. He thought, because he had a degree, he couldn’t be wrong. This man was in his 40s at the time, and his degree was more than 20 years old, but he truly believed he was superior to me.

He spoke in platitudes, holding court, spouting off liberal mantra. He had the slogans down and the buzzwords memorized. With closed mind he’d recite some stuffed shirt professor, who draws a paycheck from the backs of working parents and off government grants.

Now this guy went to the University of South Florida. This shouldn’t be confused with “Highbrow, upper-crust education” like Yale or Harvard. Just think what kind of Political Scientist they turn out every year.

It’s this elitist attitude that turns my stomach.
“I’m smarter than you; let me show what I know.” (Ever heard Al Gore give a speech?)

Player please, that only impresses fellow Birkenstock wearing, ganja smoking, progressives. The ones who never meet a protest they didn’t like or a Democrat they couldn’t make an excuse for. Even though most of them were too young to remember, they’ve read about Haight Ashbury and yearn for the days of Woodstock nation.

The counterculture is alive and well on our campuses and in the news media. Oh, it’s in a suit and tie now, but the message is clearly tie dye.

You want to know why the media leans to the left. Look no further than the institutions of “higher learning” these journalists come from. This is also why they don’t think they’re biased. Like my friend said, “If we all had a degree, we would see it his way.”

It’s that close-minded attitude which makes the likes of Fidel Castro a hero. Forget the fact he threw people in jail that opposed him, or the numerous accounts of torture and unfair trials. Cuba has free health care, isn’t it a wonderful place.

However, to them, George Bush is the dictator by having suspected terrorist questioned at Guantanamo Bay.

Look, anything can sound good on paper/speech. (Voter beware) Remember Hillary’s Health Care Plan?

Bigger government sounds like Utopia, but it also sounds like communism. You owe it to yourself to look at all sides.

I’m not always right, I voted for the current President and he’s let me down on a few things. But he’s not the thug the other side makes him out to be.

Just because there’s an “R” beside someone’s name doesn’t always make them correct, and just because there’s a “D” beside someone’s name doesn’t make them God.

I’m a realist, there’s not a magic wand to make our problems go away. But I do believe, a government without self control is a government in total control.

The greatest education you can get is free….. Just open your mind.

That’s the way Ron sees it.