1. I totally believe that people didn't so much vote for the Dems as against the Republicans. I hope they get things done, though, and I hope they're the right things.
I agree with you. The Dems were elected because they weren't the Republicans, for the most part. Especially in RI. But I also think it's because the nation wants to see progress with various issues, and the red Congress wasn't offering any.
2. I don't like the noise. It comes off as disrespectful and, considering we're talking about a body that holds a good deal of power over the country, childish. All amount of courtesy and decorum should be shown at that level (and at any level as far as that goes).
I think we humans are at our core pretty childish. And since politicians tend to be childish as a matter of course, I'm not surprised at the noise. I think impassioned fervor is to be welcomed, though. It's hard to be cerebral when the adrenaline is flowing. That's different than childish noisemaking.
I don't think kids under the age of, say, ten, should me made to say it at all because how many kids actually know the meaning of what they're saying? I sure didn't. It's like Lewis Black said, the Pledge is like coffee for kindergarteners: it wakes them up in the morning at school, and they don't really know what they're saying anyway.
Yep, yep. I remember saying the Pledge at age six, followed by "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (did I mention I hate the tune to that?). I remember thinking, hmm. "land where my fathers died", and thought I might be contradicting myself because my father was alive and well at the time.
I do have a question for you, and I don't mean it to be leading at all: why do you think "under God" was added? Not why you think it should or shouldn't have been (although I'd like to know that, too) but why you think TPTB did it. I think it had something to do with McCarthyism, but other than that I really have no clue.
Do Wah Diddy FTW!. We can even get Bruce Willis to sing it at the World Series.
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I agree with you. The Dems were elected because they weren't the Republicans, for the most part. Especially in RI. But I also think it's because the nation wants to see progress with various issues, and the red Congress wasn't offering any.
2. I don't like the noise. It comes off as disrespectful and, considering we're talking about a body that holds a good deal of power over the country, childish. All amount of courtesy and decorum should be shown at that level (and at any level as far as that goes).
I think we humans are at our core pretty childish. And since politicians tend to be childish as a matter of course, I'm not surprised at the noise. I think impassioned fervor is to be welcomed, though. It's hard to be cerebral when the adrenaline is flowing. That's different than childish noisemaking.
I don't think kids under the age of, say, ten, should me made to say it at all because how many kids actually know the meaning of what they're saying? I sure didn't. It's like Lewis Black said, the Pledge is like coffee for kindergarteners: it wakes them up in the morning at school, and they don't really know what they're saying anyway.
Yep, yep. I remember saying the Pledge at age six, followed by "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (did I mention I hate the tune to that?). I remember thinking, hmm. "land where my fathers died", and thought I might be contradicting myself because my father was alive and well at the time.
I do have a question for you, and I don't mean it to be leading at all: why do you think "under God" was added? Not why you think it should or shouldn't have been (although I'd like to know that, too) but why you think TPTB did it. I think it had something to do with McCarthyism, but other than that I really have no clue.
Do Wah Diddy FTW!. We can even get Bruce Willis to sing it at the World Series.