Here is an interesting exchange that took place on a national call-in show yesterday regarding the recent ruling on Proposition Eight.
Caller: Hi Thom. I’m calling about that judge’s decision on proposition eight. It doesn’t make any sense!
Thom Hartmann: In what way?
Caller: Well that judge is just writing law. He’s sitting there making stuff up. We all know that marriage was meant to be a man and a woman.
TH: Where in the Cons…
Caller: It’s like every time we try to do the right thing Obama steps in and forces us to do the wrong thing.
TH: But it wasn’t Obama …Caller: I don’t care! He’s changing everything! I just want my country back! Now I can’t even know who’s living next door to me, or if I can let my kids out to go the store … TH: Have you read the rul… Caller: It’s like when we tried to clean up our neighborhoods and some socialist judge tells us we have to read people their RIGHTS when we’re just trying to fight to keep our country safe from the terr…TH: But what’s Miranda got to ….. Caller: I have a daughter and I want her to get married like anyone to a regular guy and now I can’t even know who she’s marrying because of some Obama judge telling me that she has to marry …. TH: But that wasn’t the ruling …Caller: It’s you guys and your socialist ideas that are making it hard for regular people to just be themselves what with people coming across the border now and living in basements …TH: Let’s get back to Proposition 8 – why do you think…Caller: The people of California SPOKE and said they don’t want Adam and Steve living next door and a judge tells them they can’t SPEAK! It’s socialism like when Obama took over GM and now cars are running off the highway everywhere … TH: Let’s try to stay on subject here … have you read the rul…Caller: I want my country back! You guys are ruining it for all of us with your immigrants living in basements and socialism and now gay people having to get married and my daughter can’t even talk to her friends because she doesn’t know … TH: Caller … I’m going to stop you here … let’s not talk over one another. Now, when I put you back on the air, I want you to tell me if you have read the judge’s ruling, and also where in the Constitution marriage is defined … OK? Alright. Put him back on. Caller – are you there? caller?
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OK OK … I made it all up. That call never happened. But doesn’t it sound like talk radio?
Piece of Mindful 
The ability of the average American to think clearly on any topic was lost back, for sure, by 1898 – probably earlier.
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Americans, like the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz, are searching for that something lost, something missing. If we only had a brain.
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