I care about politics.

I realize that I'm NOT in the norm. I am painfully aware of how little  most of my fellow Americans care about politics.

It's appalling, really, when you consider the horrors endured by people around the world because they do not have a right to vote . People from all over the world give their lives year in and year out, just to feel like they have a say in the affairs of their country - and we just throw it away.  We already fought for it!! And won!! How ungrateful we must seem to the old, restless spirits that risked everything to fight for our rights which we now take for granted.

Too many people watch FOX News to get their information. They feel smug about what they've "learned". Lucky for them, their perspective has been adjusted so that they feel justified looking down on all those who do not conform to the opinions they hear from Fox's "news"casters.  In fact, Fox's "news"casters deliver the news with such bias, that they leave little room for their viewers to think for themselves. They do not deliver any "news" objectively. They always use that "rumor" tone of voice that infers to the listener how they should feel about what they've just heard. FoxNews viewers tend to be VERY defensive about how they feel about these issues in particular. I think its because Fox's tone of voice also conveys a sense that anyone who sees an issue differently, should feel unAmerican and be shamed to hell. Unfortunately, most of their "reasons" for their positions on certain issues just don't hold up to scrutiny, and even die-hard loyal viewers have difficulty explaining their reasoning because it just doesn't sound as convincing unless it's in that disapproving rumor tone of voice. So they get defensive. And who can blame them? I mean, it's embarrassing when you think you know what you are talking about, until you hear how stupid it sounds when you say it out loud.

If you like to watch FoxNews, try this: Turn off the sound and turn on the captions. That way you can get their news, but without the biased tone of voice. And just see if you end up with a different opinion than what they suggest.