tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889986006783300070.post7971684888477810899..comments2023-10-19T05:40:40.156-07:00Comments on The Theory of Mediocrity: Why Advocacy Groups are Bad for the U.S.? (Part II)PT Bohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10101195261695989996noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889986006783300070.post-16725753343346913782013-08-22T10:41:49.726-07:002013-08-22T10:41:49.726-07:00Great point, Pat. If you can sing for yourself, n...Great point, Pat. If you can sing for yourself, no reason to join a choir. Hard to understand why the Lions Club or Rotary ever got started.<br /><br />Silly me, I plan to join with likely millions of other like-minded folks on the West Lawn of the Capitol Tuesday September 10 to try to intimidate some in Congress re: the upcoming budget process and the defunding of "Obamacare". I've already thought it through and blogged on it. And I've sold my congressman on my position. So why add my voice to an "advocacy group"?<br /><br />As to some think tanks being bad and some good, I don't judge them by their being, but rather on what they do. There is truth and untruth. There is good and evil. There is right and wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889986006783300070.post-89887558157971854472013-08-22T07:07:03.269-07:002013-08-22T07:07:03.269-07:00I strongly disagree. If you can think for yourself...I strongly disagree. If you can think for yourself you do not need to join tea party or political party. I find the Heritage Foundation to loaded with a bunch of phonies too. They only want money. They send me surveys all the time but they publish the results of the surveys - it is all about getting a contribution and make you feel like your opinion matters. I have written to them about this and of course they have not responded. I have a low opinion of the Heritage Foundation as well - regardless if I agree with most of their ideas. We can't say liberal think tanks are bad and conservative ones are good - that is hypocrisy. PT Bohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10101195261695989996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889986006783300070.post-43570234461248771892013-08-22T06:55:09.393-07:002013-08-22T06:55:09.393-07:00I have expended the time, energy, and my mind to p...I have expended the time, energy, and my mind to pursue "natural law", the rational and logic analysis of what can and cannot make sense of the observable world around us. The result for me is a set of hierarchical truths.<br /><br />When I encounter assertions which don't square with those truths, I recheck them. So far, the truths win.<br /><br />I actively support and participate in Tea Parties, the Heritage Foundation, Heritage Action, Heritage Sentinels, and Heritage Leaders Club. Each advocates with rare exception positions consistent with my truths.<br /><br />I don't think per se "advocacy groups are bad for the U.S."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889986006783300070.post-77132507265105116372013-08-21T13:51:30.320-07:002013-08-21T13:51:30.320-07:00As usual, excellent point CW. Schools may be the b...As usual, excellent point CW. Schools may be the biggest brainwashing factory in our country. PT Bohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10101195261695989996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889986006783300070.post-19584052840179391332013-08-21T13:07:57.718-07:002013-08-21T13:07:57.718-07:00Don’t forget the role of public schools when it co...Don’t forget the role of public schools when it comes to brainwashing and dumbing down the citizenry. I know there are great teachers like your wife out there too but unfortunately the Left’s influence on our education system cannot be undone by them. <br /><br />Not to sound like a broken record but so many of the problems we face as a country, including the power grabs of special interest groups, can be solved simply by limiting the power of the federal government to the way it was intended under the Constitution. Then there’d be nothing for them to fight over. But that’s always the rub – how do we get back there?<br />CWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18093393578438689105noreply@blogger.com