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"They're gathering them up from miles around...." Randy Newman's lyrics from "Rednecks" have never rung as true as they do today. The perfect storm of victimology, millennial thinking, global competition and entitlement has made us a weak minded, noncompetitive society with no sense of common purpose and a will to only point blame, while expecting/demanding "the other guy/team/banner fix it all in "MY" favor, so I can get back to more pressing issues like partying or bitching about the line at McDonald's or Starbucks.
 
"They're gathering them up from miles around...." Randy Newman's lyrics from "Rednecks" have never rung as true as they do today. The perfect storm of victimology, millennial thinking, global competition and entitlement has made us a weak minded, noncompetitive society with no sense of common purpose and a will to only point blame, while expecting/demanding "the other guy/team/banner fix it all in "MY" favor, so I can get back to more pressing issues like partying or bitching about the line at McDonald's or Starbucks.
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"They're gathering them up from miles around...." Randy Newman's lyrics from "Rednecks" have never rung as true as they do today. The perfect storm of victimology, millennial thinking, global competition and entitlement has made us a weak minded, noncompetitive society with no sense of common purpose and a will to only point blame, while expecting/demanding "the other guy/team/banner fix it all in "MY" favor, so I can get back to more pressing issues like partying or bitching about the line at McDonald's or Starbucks.

LOL. You are throwing rocks from your glass mansion again. You are doing the very thing you accuse others of doing: playing victim and pointing blame---"President Obama is destroying our country", "Our religion is under attack", "Our morals are being corrupted". Everybody is against the poor conservative: the president, the federal government, Hollywood, the MSM, gay rights advocates, liberals.

Instead of constantly complaining, I challenge you and your fellow right wingers to come up with a realistic conservative reform movement that can replace the "failed welfare state" you talk about so much with an effective conservative agenda that will allow middle-class and working-class Americans to achieve a better life for themselves.
 
LOL. You are throwing rocks from your glass mansion again. You are doing the very thing you accuse others of doing: playing victim and pointing blame---"President Obama is destroying our country", "Our religion is under attack", "Our morals are being corrupted". Everybody is against the poor conservative: the president, the federal government, Hollywood, the MSM, gay rights advocates, liberals.

Instead of constantly complaining, I challenge you and your fellow right wingers to come up with a realistic conservative reform movement that can replace the "failed welfare state" you talk about so much with an effective conservative agenda that will allow middle-class and working-class Americans to achieve a better life for themselves.

Making it up as you go along, aren't you? Do you even know the lyrics or meaning of that particular song? You assume to the point of paranoid fantasy. You think you know me, because you can sick a label on me. Labeling is for filing, not for defining. I'm not sure you even know yourself. My observations are honest and thoughtful, not blind spin, talking point, key word, bumper sticker BS. You attempt to deftly step behind your smug derision at the first sign that your "mission" or vision for the world is not any more buttoned up in reality than the next schlub's version of "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." You, like many others, just pick the parts you like and ignore the rest as tiresome or more honestly not suited to your narrative. And that is not a problem. Differences yield a lot more conversation and creativity than does the droning of the company line. The biggest lie most of us tell ourselves is that we are doing the best we can.
 
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Making it up as you go along, aren't you? Do you even know the lyrics or meaning of that particular song? You assume to the point of paranoid fantasy. You think you know me, because you can sick a label on me. Labeling is for filing, not for defining. I'm not sure you even know yourself. My observations are honest and thoughtful, not blind spin, talking point, key word, bumper sticker BS. You attempt to deftly step behind your smug derision at the first sign that your "mission" or vision for the world is not any more buttoned up in reality than the next schlub's version of "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." You, like many others, just pick the parts you like and ignore the rest as tiresome or more honestly not suited to your narrative. And that is not a problem. Differences yield a lot more conversation and creativity than does the droning of the company line. The biggest lie most of us tell ourselves is that we are doing the best we can.


uhhhh...ok?
 
You actually understood that? That rant was incoherent.

Some of us understand what's going on around us without having to pucker up for a "link" to give our thoughts or our persona any validity. Some of us, even without "X-Men" powers, can look out the window for a grasp of immediate weather conditions. All the while, there are those among us, who cannot (or choose not to) tell the difference between truth, partial truth, spin or outright lies, as we've been trained to give more weight to tone, flair and color than to "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." In fact, it is quite natural (as despite our technology, we're still pretty primal) for us to be bored by simple truth. Writers of great classics have long recognized that we are drawn more to an elaborate lie than we are to a simple truth. We like to be entertained.

If you like, I will translate more for you if you care enough to listen. But, I'm fairly confident that your preference would be to stay in your selected comfort zone by choosing predetermined labels for anything or anyone, you don't want/need/care to understand. Labels are surely convenient. They are a lazy way to type cast the rest of us with little or no imagination, investigation or discussion. Many of us want our way of thinking to be the norm and for everyone else's to be discarded as incoherent or divisive or uninformed or illogical or misguided or mindless or unreasonable or tiresome or whatever label we choose. Pick as we may any other negative term we might conveniently use to marginalize or deride others' perspectives of truth/reality. And we insist on those labels for the sake of coddling our own, "very special" (or so Mom tells us), customized, designer grasp of people we encounter. We all could be much more effective listeners. Productive discussion is a good thing, and it works a lot better if it's at least two way and honest and cordial.
 
Some of us understand what's going on around us without having to pucker up for a "link" to give our thoughts or our persona any validity. Some of us, even without "X-Men" powers, can look out the window for a grasp of immediate weather conditions. All the while, there are those among us, who cannot (or choose not to) tell the difference between truth, partial truth, spin or outright lies, as we've been trained to give more weight to tone, flair and color than to "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." In fact, it is quite natural (as despite our technology, we're still pretty primal) for us to be bored by simple truth. Writers of great classics have long recognized that we are drawn more to an elaborate lie than we are to a simple truth. We like to be entertained.

If you like, I will translate more for you if you care enough to listen. But, I'm fairly confident that your preference would be to stay in your selected comfort zone by choosing predetermined labels for anything or anyone, you don't want/need/care to understand. Labels are surely convenient. They are a lazy way to type cast the rest of us with little or no imagination, investigation or discussion. Many of us want our way of thinking to be the norm and for everyone else's to be discarded as incoherent or divisive or uninformed or illogical or misguided or mindless or unreasonable or tiresome or whatever label we choose. Pick as we may any other negative term we might conveniently use to marginalize or deride others' perspectives of truth/reality. And we insist on those labels for the sake of coddling our own, "very special" (or so Mom tells us), customized, designer grasp of people we encounter. We all could be much more effective listeners. Productive discussion is a good thing, and it works a lot better if it's at least two way and honest and cordial.


Where have I heard this before? Oh, yes: Macbeth! "...it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
 
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Where have I heard this before? Oh, yes: Macbeth! "...it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"A stitch in time saves nine." Didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Hope your self esteem is still in working order. Did you call your Mom today?
 
I don't pay much attention to right wing lunatic trolls.

Always desperate for the last word and lately resorting to playground name calling. Nice. Impressive. Evidently the real you. Cue my derisive laughter.
 
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