Let's be reasonable...

I recognize that the majority of of the "minority" who are against ObamaCare are extremely reasonable, and planning to use due process to remove from office those who have failed to listen to their constituency. They are angry but not mad.  However, I just read in the paper of some shameful behavior of a few who have let their anger, though justified, get the better of them and they are going mad.  People ridiculing a man on the street diagnosed with Parkinson's because he is in favor of the Bill, someone throwing a brick through a House Representative's window, others sending threatening emails. Some of these people were named as "teabaggers" a reference, I suppose, to the Tea Party movement.  It seems to me that this is self defeating behavior and does not bring attention to the higher goals and aims of the movement, but brings the organization down.  This is not what was intended, I am sure, by the founders of the movement.  Violence is not justifiable in this controversy.

It was not too long ago that voter turnout was very low in many areas of the country in the political caucuses and primaries and so when the general election came, the choice of candidates in each of the parties was between one you really didn't like and one you didn't like.  This is why I joined the Republican Party, to be able to have a say in who became the Republican candidate.  Now iCaucus has also potentially given me a chance to have a say in who might become the Democratic candidate as well.  This is where the battle needs to be fought, with your vote.  Use your vote, people.  Use it every step of the way.  Don't get petty.  This distracts attention from where it really needs to be focused.  Don't sling insults at those who don't agree with you (okay, I should not have called Obama an idiot--sorry).  Take a time-out if you have to and arm yourself with facts and incontrovertible information.  Learn to have well-informed discussions so that you can disagree without becoming disagreeable.  Let's reason together.