Why bother?

6/1/26:

Another reaction post here. As you can see, this post is over 10 years old! So what has happened from that time to this?

I've probably mentioned something about audience numbers before. To mention it again: I don't know what the true numbers are. I DO think that they are somewhat higher. But I don't think they're anywhere near the numbers I am seeing from the Google interface.

As for Barnhardt, I'd say that somebody has to do the job. Elections are the way we decide who the leaders are. We aren't voting for saints. Hopefully we can get people who will do a fair job.

This may allow to me segue into a further discussion about Trump. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've held the opinion that trade deficits are bad since at least 1988. Back then, Dick Gephardt was running for President. I actually voted for him in the Democrat primary. If he got the nomination, maybe ( maybe!) I would've voted for him on what he was running on. He was running against those huge deficits. We thought they were huge in 1988. Of course, they are much, much bigger now.

Free trade uber alles types don't see the national security risk of offshoring our industrial base. For the Democrats, offshoring our industrial base may be a feature, not a bug. Gephardt was a Democrat. Something tells me the Democrats have changed. It was not always so that they thought that way about de-industrialization. Gephardt didn't win, but he got SOME votes anyway.

If Trump gives up on re-industrialization, then he will have lost the plot as far as I'm concerned.

3/21/16:

Five and a half years of blogging, and few readers.  Very few.  Sometimes I wonder about this habit of mine.

Not to mention that even if I had much influence, it doesn't do much for me personally.  If all of a sudden, the world heeded my every word, and things started going the way I think they should, it wouldn't make much of a difference in my own life.  Why bother?

Truth to it is that I don't know.  I just press on.  Maybe it could be thought of as a type of penance.  But why would I need to do that?  Don't know.  Don't think I have wronged anybody.  Maybe the penance wouldn't be recognized as such, and may be considered as bad as anything else that I have done.

Nope, there doesn't appear to be any reason for it other than I like to do it.  So I do it.

With that thought in mind, I turn to another person out there.  But this person does have an audience.

That person says that it is axiomatic that the culture has degraded to such an extent that to seek office is evidence that that person is unfit to hold office.

Axiomatic is the word.  She keeps repeating her axiom, as some of her readers just don't get it.  Well, for me, I decided to look up the word "axiomatic".  What I got out of the definition is that if it is axiomatic, then it cannot be argued against.  Sort of like water being wet.  The sun rising in the east.  And so on.  In other words, it ain't axiomatic if she has to keep explaining it.

Perhaps I shouldn't write that here.  Perhaps I should write her and tell her this.  I have a hunch though that this wouldn't work.  Nor would this little post.  It is just another example of why should I bother?  If people are going to believe something or other, they are not going to be argued out of it.

It is like AGW.  People believe in it.  Why bother arguing against it?  They won't change their minds, because it is a belief, not a rational conclusion based upon facts.

I could go on and on and on.  No.  We do not live in a rational world.  Yes, that may be said to be axiomatic, but I might get an argument about that.  That is, if I had an audience.