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Maybe we should think about staying in our “own lane.”


Posted: Jan 18, 2017

The election is over. Whether we like the outcome or not, the current focus should be on what each of us can do to make the next four years as good as possible for America. I worry that high-profile celebrities run a risk of having an unwarranted impact on public opinion. Being talented in one area doesn’t translate into special insight or wisdom in another, such as politics. I wonder if most of us, for example, could even find Syria on a map with both hands, three days and a flashlight. I wonder how many of us could give a coherent explanation of the relationship between geopolitics and our economy. I sure can’t. Maybe we should think about staying in our “own lane.” Hopefully, most fans think for themselves. I’m betting they do. I don’t know politics but I do know a fair amount about human functioning. I’ve spent my life studying why humans do what they do and don’t do what they don’t do. That is my lane. I do have advice for our politicians: Stop fighting with and trying to trip up the other side. Start doing only those things that help people. Stop the games, the obstruction, the chest pounding and the “my party is better than your party” stuff. Stop treating voters like idiots and start doing your job: Working for us. From our point of view, there is only one side. “We are all Americans, and we are all in this together.” Dr. Phil And, by the way, stop rewarding bad behavior! For example, if you want to encourage people to work, stop paying people who could but don’t. If you want initiative and enterprise, stop adopting economic policies that financially punish those who display it. People respond to incentives. Stop creating incentives to do things we don’t want and create incentives for people to do what we do want. In the real world, we routinely have to negotiate and problem-solve to get along, to thrive and survive. We do that by finding common ground. We focus on what we can agree on with our friends, family and in commerce because we have to get along. Typically, we find out the differences between us are much narrower than we thought. Let’s encourage our politicians to join the real world where people who don’t see things precisely the same way nevertheless work to find common ground and solutions. MORE AT LINK...;

My favorite quotes from Dr. Phil - People need to wake up.

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"I worry that high-profile celebrities run a risk of having an unwarranted impact on public opinion. Being talented in one area doesn’t translate into special insight or wisdom in another, such as politics."

Dr. Phil

Exactly. Hollywood pretends to be someone else for a living. - Why should we care what they think?

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It's amazing how much money they make for playing pretend.

Somehow I don't think this was written when Obama became president - Pubs should have thought about

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The liberals always wanted to do what was right. President Obama wanted the Pubs to join in on fixing our health insurance problem, but the Pubs would have none of it, trying to obstruct it at every turn. The Clinton's wanted to expand educational opportunities as they knew that our economy was going to turn from a manufacturing economy to a technological economy, but the Republicans answered the siren call of greed and fraud with their deregulations of the finance industry and lack of support for education.

Sorry it is too late for Libs to turn the other cheek again. Apparently you will just have to be satisfied with your D list celebrities like Dr. Phil, Chachi, and Ted Nugent.

In other words, you want to continue vindication instead of cooperation? - Hypocriticallibs

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That's not doing the right thing but, eh, to each his own.

I believe the interview and article were - from 1-17-17.

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Stay happy.

Republicans didn't sign an unconstitutional Obamacare, - which forces citizens to purchase

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insurance. That is wrong. The govt should never force a private citizen to buy something.

If people don' know this, no wonder our country is in trouble.

Colluding with the left to rob people of freedom of choice is - is not something I want

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my elected officials to do.

Thank goodness Republicans stoop up to this. Unfortunately, the left signed a bill without even reading it. Can you imagine?

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