We need the Fairness Doctrine badly, folks

I'm telling you, after the video I saw and posted yesterday, of Governor Rick Perry of Texas, saying they want and need to buck Washington and their power and efforts, I'm more concerned than ever about where we're headed as a nation.

That little exercise of his yesterday has brought out some of the most ugly and divisive comments on the internet and I'm concerned where this is taking us.

Instead of still and always thinking of ourselves as Americans and being cohesive, we're getting more and more divided as "us vs. them", no matter who the "us" or "them" is.

And Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter and Larry Kudlow are taking us there and it's really negative and damaging to the country.

It's dangerous, folks.

We're splintering ourselves into millions of tiny, militant, angry groups, who just want to "get even."

And we need to stop it.

Chill, people

For everyone paying attention to what's going on nationally and internationally, financially and economically--and particularly for those who aren't--it's important to see that we all need to get good information about what is going on and stay calm.

It's easy to see, already, how the demagogues in the past--say, WWII and before that, in the Great Depression--got started and got their audiences.

Awful things happen--and are happening now. We go into new territory of one kind or another--in our case, financially--and people become overcome by fear and a lack of knowledge.

Instead of listening to calm, cool, informative sources of news like National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS-TV (Public Broadcasting System) because, heck, it's dull, they either watch horrible, one-sided, emotional knuckleheads like this Larry Kudlow guy on CNBC--who's constantly yelling out at us on the television--or they listen to "Porkulus", Rush Limbaugh on the radio. (I was on vacation for a few days and got trapped into seeing and hearing Kudlow. Sheesh. What a blow-hard.)

So instead of getting intelligent information and news, they get rumors, viewpoints and emotion.

And that is no way to make any headway and success on where we are and what we need to do.

So I'm clear on this, let me also say that we can't just listen to the likes of "Mr. Sanctimonious", Keith Olbermann, or Jon Stewart for our news, either. We have to know what's truly going on. No "slant" to it.

Public radio and TV are more important right now than probably ever before.

So let's chill, people. Let's either read and listen to non-biased sources of information as much as humanly possible, or shut the hell up.