Letting Our Emotions Rule

In a car factory in the midwest, obama accused the republicans in congress of "messing with him", and focusing on that, rather than focusing on the auto workers, or the country. He may've gotten some applause for that line, even though a crowd of workers is no longer automatically a crowd of liberal democrats. A hundred years ago show me a group of blue collar workers and I'll show you some socialists, but in our modern times, the corporte masters have learned to trickle enough down to keep the laborers sufficiently content to find any form of nonconformity unnecessary. Hence, many of them are conservative republicans, or conservatives, or conservative democrats. Nonetheless, in a masculine environment, a blue collar environment, Obama decided to wax masculine. They, the republicans, are messing with him, of course. (We all mess with each other.) Everything Obama has done with regard to Syria, if a republican had done it, the conservatives would be applauding it as brilliant and brave. If a republican president had behaved toward Syria as obama did, the liberals would have been calling for his head, but with obama, they were strangley silent about their war mongering president. I explained to a friend that the nation's liberals were momentarily shocked to discover that the peaceful libveral they has chosen as their leader was behaving like a macho war mongering bush republican, but would start to protest obama's wr like policies, as soon as they regained their senses. We make our decisions, all too often, based on emotional rather then reason, we must remember. We must strive to do better, to let reason have more influence on us.I swear to sanity, that if a republican invented obama - care, the conservatives would be praising it as a brilliant compromise between the free market and government involvement, which it is. The liberals would be attacking it as a surrender to corporate power, which it also is. Anyone who is willing to forsake the emotions of politics for the lofty realm of reason is viewed with disdain in america. Shouldn't we ask more of our politiciians, and ourselves?