Deal with it!

Today a phone speaker on C-Span complained about C-Span, saying everyday Americans don't have a voice on C-Span, and the commentator pointed out that we've just then had three hours of "locals" commenting.

That didn't seem to satisfy the caller. They objected to listening to an international viewpoint on finance, and wanted only the "American" viewpoint. It's a sad commentary on a large segment of the American population. They say they want just the facts, but to them, if it's not American, it's not the facts. A fact to them is anything that agrees with what they believe or think. If it contradicts what they believe, then it can't be a fact.

This local American ignorance, and I can only call it that, is a weakness in our national security. To them, facts are not facts if they don't agree with what they believe. We can trace this back to a segment of our population, a very large segment, that disbelieves the process of evolution, believes all life started in 6,000 BC, has no use for the vast scientific pool of knowledge that solidly refutes this, and condemns anyone who thinks otherwise as not just wrong in their book, but evil.

Here's some "evil" for you. Evolution is. Reality is. Deal with it. As for economics, get out of your swamp of ignorance and join the world. Look at cause and effect. Don't automatically reject anything that contradicts your narrow little world.

Oh, here's a few more tidbits you may have missed. The earth isn't flat. The earth isn't the center of the universe. The universe was created billions of years ago. Life evolved, although I shudder not at having come from slim marshes, but rather at the thought that you and I share a common ancestry.

Oh, by the way, life ends when you die. You die, you're dead. The only hereafter is what we leave behind in our memories of our deeds and words. So my thoughts for you; deal with it!