When Special Interest "Shoots the Gap"
We live in the age of special interest groups and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. I think a big part of it depends on if you’re a public figure like a politician or a talk radio host. These people open their mouths and utter something that offends a group of people; the group representing the offended then swoops in and wreaks havoc upon the offender. This seems to happen at least a few times a month- at the minimum people simply say dumb stuff, in the worst cases, public personalities have lost their right to free speech (and their jobs.) My concern is that people give these groups too much power and sometimes allow the groups do their thinking for them. In other words, tell me (or even just suggest) I should be offended, and I will. There is no greater danger that America faces today than the people who remove their thinking caps and place them on someone else’s head. While some of these so-called “ special interest groups ” are just plain silly, I do believe that there a...