• 30
  • March
    2010
I have become really alarmed at how rigid everyone seems to have become -- in religion, in politics, even in their social lives.  The idea of flexibility seems to have flown the coop, as it were!  Shifrin Newman Smith advertises on the Fox Network and I for one, think that we should be removing our ads.  Commentators on that network seem to thrive on rigid religious and rigid political views and encourage a total loss of civility in our public discourse.  They are disrespectful of opinions validly held by people who think differently than they do (like me, for one) and don't have any sense of what it means to live in a democracy.  In a democracy, the majority does not rule.  Rather, in a democracy, minorities' rights are protected.  These zealots don't believe that anybody's opinions or rights are important except their own.  I'd be interested to hear your comments.