Yesterday I watched an interview with Carolyn Maloney, a democrat representative from New York, about her position on universal health care. At one point in the segment she was asked point-blank if she supports insuring illegal immigrants. For whatever reason she chose to ignore the question and continue with her talking points to which the interviewer responded by asking her the same question… four more times!
The point here has nothing to do with universal health care, illegal immigration, or the fact that it happened to be a democrat this time around. The issue here is that she refused to answer an important question about the way she will vote on an issue. Worse than this is the fact that this is NOT a rare occurrence. In fact, not only is it a common phenomenon, it has become an accepted norm in both major parties across the entire spectrum of issues.
Rarely does anyone do as this interviewer and continue to ask the same question and even rarer is it that the politician gets directly called out for intentionally avoiding the question. We have gotten so used to not having our real questions answered that we no longer demand real answers from our leaders, and until we demand them we will not get them.
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have a link to this?
ReplyDeleteYes, I was able to find one.
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