We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.
There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come.
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.