Well formed take from Jeffrey Feldman over at The Huffington Post blog.
Have an educated opinion. Be able to support your stance. We don’t all have to agree. We do have the personal responsibility to think for ourselves. When we choose, we can’t blame the information we received or that “it was reported that”…We need to get back to the issues and thinking for ourselves. Be aware of what you read - editorial or fact, liberal or conservative, supported by proven sources or pulled out of someone’s butt?
The alternative is Idiocracy and sitting in front of the idiot box on a lazy boy rigged with an intravenous feed tube and bed pan, being told what we believe, when and for how long.