I really shouldn’t waste my time reading idiot commentors on message boards – and believe me, there are idiots of all flavors out there who just relish the opportunity to flame one another. Maybe they don’t have jobs?
But anyway, while taking a mental break from my job – a short one, I promise! – I read an article pro Joe Biden and then an article pro Sarah Palin, and then read the comments on these articles. They made me a little heartsick for the people of our country, many of whom I fear are beginning to revere mediocrity. I see it everywhere, but it is most disturbing in the arena of politics. Sigh. I have to shake my head when I read solid educational credentials as part of the cons of a candidate. "Too educated" should never be a bad thing. I read the pro Palin article and found more than a handful of grammatical errors. Nobody seemed to notice, not even Fred Thompson’s editors (he was the author, and why is this man so popular? There are educated Republicans in the world! I know it! Ones who make a good case for their party! See, this is part of my issue with these people!) I don’t expect the comments to be grammatically correct, but the freaking news article? COME ON.
The breaking point came when I read that Palin’s Couric interview went so poorly because the mainstream liberal media edited out her smart answers and only left her dumb ones.
That? That was the sound of my forehead hitting my desk at free fall speed.
Reverence of mediocrity is not the Change in Washington that we need. But I fear, regardless of candidate elected in November, that it is an inevitable trend in America. Is this the slow decline of my country? Will I be alive for the fall of Rome?