The Bird Dog's vision of utopia would be a world in which the government would leave him alone as long as he follows minimal, uncomplicated, reasonable laws. He would much rather spend his time in the world of big enduring ideas, the worlds of farming and gardening and hunting and bird-watching, the world of poetry and music and dance and science and the Kingdom of God. While he believes that politics is cheap entertainment (since the Greeks - Demosthenes was a big draw), but it is also about dopey, mercenary, small people trying to mess with our lives. Like the LYF, the Bird Dog has a strong Libertarian streak.
So, with politics, unless you are talking about freedom and human dignity as granted by God, not man, the Bird Dog feels he's dealing with trivia. Still, ya hafta fight the good fight even though it may not mean much in the big picture, and even though the tyranny of one Caesar or another may win out in the end.
In moments of frustration, the Bird Dog just feels that we need to politically crush the Lefty totalitarians, the Statists, and the World Government dreamers, so we can get on with what is important in life. But it feels never-ending. It is never-ending. Our forefathers set up an arena for a permanent struggle between individual freedom and government power. I notice that even some serious science-dedicated blogs cannot resist detours into politics. Being Citizens of a Republic is a big deal, and a big part of our identity as Americans. So we can't drop the ball. It's a matter of Duty. (And anyway, if all of the Leftys saw the light, we Americans would still find plenty things to argue about.) But I still wish that that Duty didn't have to intrude quite so much on the important stuff...
