What An Independent Is- Lou Dobbs on "Made In America".

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Lou Dobbs is certainly the media icon for independents in the world of politics.

How do you know if you are an independent?

When you catch yourself agreeing and disagreeing with the mouthpieces of the left and right on talk radio, TV, and in the blogosphere and you begin to pick up their so-called "reasoning" which is actually a guide from a kind of theology designed to insure that they are always on the right side of any question and that they can feel free to impugn the motives of people who honestly disagree with them.

I have always viewed the right and left this way since early adolescence when my views were stuck between my conservative father and my modern liberal teachers at at Quaker school. Neither knew when their favorite principle had been rendered invalid as their arguments moved too far to the right or left and the complementary principle became the active one.

I had no trouble understanding what a physicist meant when he said that the opposite of a simple idea was a bad idea, but the opposite of a great idea was another great idea.

We need more physicists and regular people who think as he thought.

I have to give some credit to the Quaker teachers for their one-sidedness for inspiring me to coin the phrase, "fascistic anti-fascists", a phrase I believe descriptive of many of the tyrannical anti-tyrants of the political world.

We can add them to the sexist anti-sexists and the racist anti-racists. Nothing succeeds like excess when it comes to people whose self-exaltation is premised on creating the notion of their own infallibility and complete good-heartedness at your expense.

Any success at despoiling these self-exalted types from their notions of their ideals is met with disdain, rancor, distrust, cynicism, rhetoric, but rarely with objectivity, reasoned arguments, command of the facts, or the capacity to admit that its side has ever been anything but the good, the just and the beautiful.

History moves on and eventually the right is supplanted by the left and then the roles reverse, but we turn in circles as younger people come into a world full of older people of whom but a fraction have transcended that mirror of the mind of their ideals based on unovercome taboos.

We can observe this in any debate on global warming where evidence is not discussed as much as the motivations of the illusions of the proponents of one side or the other are talked about. One side treats the other as Medieval monks on trial for heresy and cavorting with Demonic Forces used to.

For what are called "economic liberals" in Europe, Reaganomics fans, Free Trade has no down side while ardent protectionists see no upside.

Free Markets mean that you can never intervene, of course, until the Free Marketer goes belly-up at which time he will command your capital at low cost and with no restrictions.

On the other hand, Marxist-Leninist types want complete control of a command economy, an economy that produces less wealth and less freedom.

So, take a look at some of Lou Dobbs' points in his video. The issue of "Made In America" hearkens back to those scenes in the film, "Gandhi", where Gandhi quite rightly argues that letting in cloth made in the UK destroys marginal employment.

Yes, eventually there are other jobs, but I believe that the job in hand is worth much more than a potential job in the bush that is only theoretical at that point.

We should neither exploit nor allow ourselves to be exploited. All ideals have counter-ideals and need to be explored. The truth is not necessarily what we like, but it will always be what we come to appreciate and respect..