Oklahoma Democrats

Mary Fallin doesn’t see the problem with sending out expensive, flashy mailers griping about wasteful federal spending paid for with…tax dollars. Rand Paul does not seem to understand why the Civil RIghts Act was needed. The majority in the State legislature seems to think getting the state entangled in as much litigation as possible is a good idea, which is strange since they  historically griped about lawyers all the time.

On the world stage, North Korea denies sinking a South Korean ship despite parts of one of their torpedoes being found. After their “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes” argument doesn’t carry any weight,  the North then threatens all out war if South Korea responds in any way to this act of, well…war! China in the meantime says the incident is merely “unfortunate”. Doubt that would be their tone if it had been one of their ships sunk. And to top it all off, the leader of Zimbabwe, who ought to get an award for being the most effective person at destroying a once-promising country, is planning on sending numerous animals to the North Korean dictator… who must be planning to divert scarce food resources to his private petting zoo while millions starve.

The denial of reason present in all of the above is just the tip of the iceberg. It is part of the process that has so many frustrated with government on all levels. Humans are not perfect, but some seem more determined than others to prove it. Part of the problem is that it is too easy these days to live in an echo chamber, where only thoughts similar to your own are aired, heard, or discussed. Not healthy in a Republic, and one of the reasons dictatorships always make regime-ending blunders.

One of the best things I have seen about Facebook is that people are once again adding their old friends and classmates to their list of contacts-and then are realizing that not everyone agrees with their ideological postings, sense of  humor, or version of how God works. It is making people think, and that  should lead to reason. And that is what we need more of in this state, nation, and world.

-Ben Odom

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