By Angelia Roggie
Associate Editor
Remember Walker, Texas Ranger bursting through the door to save the day and defeating the bad guy with his expert martial arts? It seems as though Chuck Norris, action hero, is a now thing of the past with his recent politically driven comments.
In his YouTube video, Chuck Norris offered a dire warning to America, claiming that U.S. citizens face “1,000 years of darkness” if President Obama is reelected for a second term in November.
He went on, in his two-minute YouTube video, to say our country and freedom are under attack and, if things do not change, our country as we know it may be lost forever.
I am a registered independent and have yet to make a complete decision on what I think of the presidential candidates. Despite believing that national politics is a game of honchos who argue too much with each other instead of focusing on their country, I still think Norris’s comment was out of line.
His comment further pushes the growing divide between America’s Democrats and Republicans. How can bipartisanship ever exist when celebrities try to push their agendas on citizens’ minds? Think of Nicki Minaj rapping for Mitt Romney or George Clooney raffling off a dinner with him and President Obama. How can people ever pick a candidate based on their own views when they have these messages from public figures affecting them daily?
Each voter should be able to decide for his or herself where he or she thinks the current administration is going. It is up to voters to decide what they think a new candidate’s administration will offer, and they should not be swayed by what a certain person says because he wants to boost his political party affiliation.
Individuals should vote on which person fits their criteria best, not the political party and its representatives who push people away from another party’s candidates.
Norris can make any comments he pleases because of his First Amendment rights, but I think his idea of persuasion makes it difficult for Americans to see a country where citizens and the government can work together, especially when he says the reelection of the current administration would put us back in the Dark Ages. A person might not hold on to their hope and future goals within their country when a major voice tells them everything they know could fall apart.
Norris placed his prediction on what administration will take over and what government will develop afterwards, but he neglected to acknowledge the power of the people in this country. Citizens would not let their country fall apart because of one elected leader.
He needs to give Americans more credit than that. Most people would agree if an official was causing a degradation of society that the people of this democracy would take action against the executive branch or any other fraction of government that was allowing it to occur.
People do exist, and in this country we have the ultimate say for what we want for our nation. Sorry you forgot that, Mr. Norris.
