Read other letters about this article

• Saturday, September 13, 2008 05:28 PM

  America badly in need of a cultural revolution

  thanks for putting this piece up and attracting the comments. given what the piece says and what the posts on average say, the problem with 'the campaign' is that it does attempt to communicate with people who for all intents and purposes can not be communicated with.

  when there are still people in the country who are willing to say 'he is a muslim' you have to write that 'demographic' off as permanently out of touch with reality.

  spending time and money attempting to 'reach' them is pointless. if people do not know what

  Obama stands for and what his general ideas are for running the country by now, they are in exactly the same boat as Sara Palin is in in terms of foreign policy. Not interested.

  personally i am willing to point a finger at organized religion for 99.9% of the blame simply because it fosters belief in the irrational.

  i've seen some of the right leaning commentators ranting recently about statistics that they claim demonstrate success of the current administration. that things have been improving over the last eight years relative to the eight previous to those. i know a few people in small business and follow the financial markets and clearly, those who hold this belief are smoking something that i have not seen in a while. but again, i point to organized religion and the belief in the completely irrational that it fosters.

  perhaps the saddest part of the entire situation is that there is no escape from this mindset at this point in time. it's pervasive globally. i sometimes wonder how many hundreds of years it will be before cultures around the globe grow up in a meaningful way.

  —a voice of reason Read a voice of reason's other letters
  Permalink
  Flag
  Click "Submit Flag" if you feel this post is inappropriate. Explain why below if you wish.

  Cancel