Sorry, my bad

I wanted to write a blog in retrospective of the the year 2009. I wanted to write one in retrospective on the entire 2000's. Neither of which I accomplished. I have thought of great ideas of topics I wanted to cover in the past few weeks. But when it came time to actually write these things down, I decided to do other things instead. Most of the time, I just played Call of Duty and said "I'll do that later." I've written some pretty great blogs in my brain in the past few weeks, but I never shared them. Sorry dudes, my bad.

This morning, I was reading the paper, like usual, when I got hit with some strong feelings about politics. I thought it would be a great idea to write about politics, and how I feel about them and where I stand. Then, as I was mapping out how I would write it and state my feelings, I realized that I don't want to put those feelings out there. One of my biggest pet peeves is when the ignorant and uninformed get all politically angry when things are happening. I feel like I should be able to defend the truth and let them know they are so wrong. But I can't. I almost always bite my tongue, because I can't usually argue with them very well. I work with this woman who is very conservative in politics. She says these wild accusations that I just know are not true, but I can't disprove it, because I never even heard what she's talking about. I know she's wrong, but I can't prove it. So I don't say anything and just nod and say "wow." I don't want to get into it because the way she says things makes me know she is not going to change her thoughts and feelings, so why bother. Let her be ignorant. I know inside of me what I believe, but I don't say it to people usually because I don't want to sound like her. I don't want to sound uninformed. I usually take the stance of keeping my eyes and ears open to what everyone has to say. I will never be the one to say what should be or shouldn't be done in the country. If someone makes a good point, and it makes sense, I can agree with you. It's the liberal types that I usually end up agreeing with as far as social issues. As far as fiscal issues, I really don't know what to think. I have no experience to back up any feelings, so I leave it to the so-called experts. I have to assume they're experts because they are able to talk about the subject. When someone isn't an expert, and they're talking about the subject, you sound like an ass. This is all just my opinion here. I don't talk about shit I don't know about.

One thing I did notice about conservatives, at least these days, I cannot speak about conservatives beyond 5 years ago, is that they all seem to fear change. I guess that's why they're called conservatives... I was trying to put my finger on what was bothering me about "tea party protests" and rallies to derail the health care bill. Something just seemed off about it and I knew it wasn't the fact that they were coming together against something that I generally think is probably a good idea, but I knew it was something. I figured it out. I was thinking that when people protest something, they usually want something to change for what they believe will be an improvement. These people are rallying to keep things the same. Everyone getting up in arms about speculation that things will suck if it doesn't go their way. I've usually kept an open mind about things and change can be good. If it doesn't work out, oh well. Seriously. From what I understand, people are put in charge to make things better for everyone else. What's the point of putting someone in charge of making things better for everyone else if everything is already fine. Obviously, there are things wrong all the time. Something can be done to fix something. Nothing is perfect, especially in a country as big as ours. So why waste everybody's time derailing everything that comes down the tracks? I don't know, man, it just seems wrong. And I know that if something isn't broke, don't fix it, but I think everyone can agree that the health care system is, maybe not broke, but flawed. Usually I only get fired up about issues that actually affect me, and health care does not at this point in my life because I'm a healthy 26 year old man who has health insurance...Like I said before, the "right" maybe not be wrong here in their fears that this will fuck shit up...but I say lets try it out.

WTF am I talking about health care for? What do I know?

So in conclusion, when the nice lady I work with starts throwing around her facts about how liberals are wrong and how they're corrupt and evil, I just smile and nod, walk away, and watch basketball. And when the other nice lady I work with talks about how "this country is becoming socialist" because she won't be able to smoke in a public place or buy cigarettes without fire-safe paper, when I know for a fact she has no idea what she is saying means, I just shake my head, and continue my sudoku. Because who am I to tell her she is wrong?

-Brad...in Nashville