“I thought the whole world lived in areas where the streets are filthy, aggressive street behavior is allowed because the perps are victims of capitalism…”
h/t Robert W.
“I thought the whole world lived in areas where the streets are filthy, aggressive street behavior is allowed because the perps are victims of capitalism…”
h/t Robert W.
Hammer meets nail, right on the head.
I wonder if the other tens of millions will ever have their light bulb illuminated.
Every once in awhile I like to watch the movie Easy Rider. Love the scenery and the highways. Love the South. It’s not just a hippie flick. There’s a part of the film where they stay at a commune. Peter Fonda spots the overlaying darkness and the power trips of the overseers. Dennis Hopper doesn’t. To me it was a foreshadowing of what we have now. The people who talked about peace and love and working together etc actually just wanted to be in control and micro manage everything. And they weren’t nice people. They just talked the talk.
Unfortunately the person who wrote this article should have cottoned on years ago. Anyone with a good sense of right and wrong won’t buy into the bullshit.
I like it.
I can hear Robin at the meeting, “I’m Robin, and I was a Democrat” the others at the meeting respond in unison, “Hello Robin”…
Perhaps Robin will move to the midwest and take up gormet cooking and guns. đ
Somewhat OFF TOPIC, BUT I almost think Kate has crossed the border and moved south. Could this be???
Any woman who has a blog named after mausers and muffins, calls it “Home on the Range” and features gormet cooking and PICTURES OF HER GUNS has got to be paid attention to, and just might be KATE (?).
If this isn’t Kate, then if these two ever joined forces they could rid the world of liberals for the rest of us, and cure all the Robins. đ
http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/
“BRIGID’s HOME ON THE RANGE – GUNS AND GOURMET COOKING FROM A SMALL HOMESTEAD IN THE MIDWEST.”
“Just a Celtic lass on the Plains – with a lot of ammo and open space in my world.”
Note re above mentioned site:
Keep scrolling; just keep scrolling.
Food
Guns
More guns
AND
DOGS!!!!!
That proves it!!!
US is heading towards socialist not needed micro politics at warp speed and the Canadian headed towards social conservatism politics one vote at a time.
Keep going PMSH on the conservatism politics, we need this for 41 more years just to balance the scales.
Ever since 1964 Canada has been run by the lieberal agenda.
The only victims of capitalism are the lazy and the stupid.
All others are easily accommodated and welcomed into the fabulous world of opportunity to better your lot in life.
I have noted in recent decades, our educational system teaches that very laziness and stupidity, by the the best there is in that field … unionized teachers.
Hordes of lazy and stupid people are required to have a socialist society. That is the goal of Democrats and liberals everywhere. There desire is to micro manage the lives of the lazy and stupid. How boring is that?
“schnauzers and macguffins “??
Robin – meet Barbara Amiel – as a youth.
Same epiphany – different country – at a different age.
“Don’t PC on me” – love it, it’s a keeper!
For me, Robin’s letter would have been more convincing if she had signed her full name. As it is, skeptics can plausibly speculate that “Robin” is actually a conservative masquerading as a converted liberal. I hope that is not the case, but I do think it is at least a possibility.
I can certainly relate to her comments. There was a time when I parroted the current flavour (60’s) de jour for politics and political conversations and gave it little if any thought.
Once I actually began to think about it and started looking into it, I read the Party Platforms of all the Canadian parties and signed up, paid my dues and have continued to support what started as the Reform Party and is now the CPC under our Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
I have to say that it scares the snot out of me to see so many leftists in North America. It’s a sure formula for the dumbing down of society. All the bright ones will be targeted by the dummies and then the dummies will rule. It’s how the hated left works. Look around the globe!!
The same people who decry capitalism benefit from it. Teeth, stay away from hand. You need it.
The playwright David Mamet’s amazing confession in — gasp — the Village Voice May 2008.
Sending this to brain-dead liberal friends last year was the funnest thing I’ve done in ages.
David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’
the numbers of soi-disant socialist progressives who do the 180 degree change to conservativism are legion…amiel hitchens chairman mao pinochet gordon brown soon enough…..etc etc and now robin..
i think it’s to do with an irrefutable(finally) realization of our inescapably fallen human nature…coupled with the all important understanding of how capital is created…wealth doesn’t arrive in our wallet ex nihilo….upon inquiry one finds it is only in harnessing and saw bit-ing our fallen nature…and allowing the greedy self interested component free rein that creates profit…
it may sound vulgar and crass…it may even BE palpably vulgar and crass…..but it certaily ANSWERS.
what ‘amuses’ me are the neverending generational clarion calls to Utopia…which to me is only an admission the buglers are lazy dreamy uncompetitive f*cks…who’ve no understanding of history much less any discretion in understanding telling events of the last century….
i suppose they rue the day but exactly WHY they exhibit such fascistic miss flogee tendencies in their younger years escapes me…
Reminds me of one of my favourite Reagan moments:
Sam Donaldson: Mr. President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed the mistakes of the past and you’ve blamed the congress. Does any of the blame belong to you?
President Ronald Reagan: Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat.
“… in the end, wasnât it the achievements and the nobility of individuals, not collectives, that gave the human condition its point?
The answers to those questions came to me in the darkness of that very cold British winter of 1979. Once heard, they could not be forgotten.
…-
“Up from Liberalism
Janet Daley
I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity. Well, perhaps that is unfair to my adolescent self: it was a mixture of conscientiousness and perversity. The official atmosphere in the California high school where I spent my junior and senior years wasâhard as it may be to imagine this nowâhysterically anti-communist. This was 1961, but the sixties as we know them had not yet begun. The doctrinal orthodoxy of the day was McCarthyism in its final, decaying phase. Accordingly, my senior civics class regularly showed us propaganda films, whose crudeness constituted a provocation to (not to say an insult to the intelligence of) any potentially rebellious 16-year-old. I can remember watching lurid graphics, in which red triangles pierced through defenseless red, white, and blue balloons, and then the slogan âSocialism and communism are the same thingâ flashed onto the screenâall accompanied by a triumphal musical score whose climaxes underlined the most unsubtle messages of the narration.
Such films, inevitably, caused the more independent-minded students to think, âWhoa, hang on a minute. What is this you are so determined to make me believe, and why?â As one of my more thoughtful peers put it (in a very quiet voice), âActually, I think a bit of socialism could help to protect a country against communism by making it seem less necessary.â
So it had started. This was the beginning of the skepticism that led to cynicism and then to disaffection: the suspicion that everything your country was telling you might be blinkered at best or malign at worst. But the real damage was done for me by the hugely influential film Operation Abolition. This was the faux documentary made by the House Un-American Activities Committee to celebrate its own procedures. With a patronizing didacticism that would now seem risible, the movie recorded the HUAC hearings in San Francisco, which hauled in âknown subversivesâ to be hectored and pilloried by some of the most unattractive legislators in U.S. history. But the clash between the âknown subversivesâ and the congressmenâwho would not allow them to finish a sentence of their âprepared propaganda statementsââwas not what affected me so deeply. It was the sight of the protesters against HUAC, who had gathered outside the chamber, being attacked with fire hoses by the police. The film described the demonstrators as âdupesâ of a communist plot to abolish the heroic congressional committee (hence the movieâs title). As the water swept them painfully down the marble stairs of San Francisco City Hall, we were, I suppose, expected to cheer. We didnât. We just thought our own thoughts.
What I thought went something like this: âThere is something seriously wrong here. I have been taught that we live in a free country and that, of all the freedoms, free speech is the most important. Whatever it is that these people believe, they ought to have the right to express it without being hounded into silence. And whatever objections they have to this committee, I would like to hear them. And, furthermore, I didnât know that I lived in a country where people who disagreed with congressmen got flushed down the stairs by fire hoses.â Of course, I was in a minority in these musings. Most students watched the film in trusting passivity. To the extent that they dwelled on the issues that it raised, they were inclined to accept the notion that communismâor socialism, or whateverâwas a threat to their way of life.
Their version of the American way of lifeâwhich is to say, late 1950s, self-satisfied California affluenceârather appalled me.”
http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_up_from_liberalism.html
David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at May 17, 2009 4:53 PM
Easy-to-read print version:
http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/374064
Choice quotes:
We were riding along and listening to NPR. I felt my facial muscles tightening, and the words beginning to form in my mind: Shut the f*ck up. “?” she prompted. And her terse, elegant summation, as always, awakened me to a deeper truth: I had been listening to NPR and reading various organs of national opinion for years, wonder and rage contending for pride of place.
And I began to question my distrust of the “Bad, Bad Military” of my youth, which, I saw, was then and is now made up of those men and women who actually risk their lives to protect the rest of us from a very hostile world. Is the military always right? No. Neither is government, nor are the corporationsâthey are just different signposts for the particular amalgamation of our country into separate working groups, if you will. Are these groups infallible, free from the possibility of mismanagement, corruption, or crime? No, and neither are you or I. So, taking the tragic view, the question was not “Is everything perfect?” but “How could it be better, at what cost, and according to whose definition?” Put into which form, things appeared to me to be unfolding pretty well.
Lefties do what they’re told, unquestioningly. That’s scary.
Its good to see people like Robin wake up from the opium dream of Liberalism.
I wish there would have been more last election.
Obama is in the process of destroying the American dollar to bankrupt the USA.
The Republic is broke by trillions. You know the old saw: A debter is always the lenders Master.
The collective or the committee is how the left likes to do things. All hold hands and carefully make suggestion until you are certain that no one will be offended or slighted in any way then make a decision.
This is the method that would take the committee about 20 years to develop the candle.
This is the method by which the Obamites are correcting our economy and completely revamping the use of of energy on planet earth.
We actually revamping energy use in north America because the rest of the world (not counting what’s left of Europe) doesn’t give a shit, they want stuff and they want it now and they want it to be inexpensive.
That alone is enough to make you rethink your leftist, collectivist politics.
I can identify with Robin. I think many of us went through a similar process. Isn’t that what a neo-con is? That is if you use the proper definition. The same with redneck. People who work are denigrated by the Left. Makes it hard to follow your common sense once you start to find it. I’ve run into more than a few Lefties who are really deep down; conservatives.
I’ve run into more than a few Lefties who are really deep down; conservatives.
Perhaps they are frightened.
I’ve run into a few lefties who are, deep down, idiots. But it’s about the same at the surface.
Peter: LOL x 1,000
I actually long thought I was a centrist except on two issues: Fiscal Responsibility and Law & Order. Then I befriended too many people in Vancouver who made statements like this:
Female yuppie: “My mother back in Regina is an idiot. She’s actually going to vote for Harper!”
Me: “Ummm, I’m going to be voting for him too.”
Female yuppie: “I could never vote for that evil man. If he ever gets elected, he’s going to take away all the rights to my body.”
I wish I were kidding or exaggerating about that conversation but sadly, I am not. And variations of it go on all the time out here on Canada’s Left Coast.
“I could never vote for that evil man. If he ever gets elected, he’s going to take away all the rights to my body.”
If all you have is people irrationally screeching incoherently as your “poster-boy”, turn the volume up. Apparently, Wilhelmina Tiemersma is writing a book now.
I voted for Trudeau in 1968.
That’s why I recognize the weasel-words hope and change.
While Canada is slowly becoming post-socialist, the US is 40 years behind.
Poor old Robin is still a Leftist, I’m afraid. His epiphany ain’t one. Its still all about politics for Robin. Hillary supporters dissed by Obama supporters? Tsk. Took you long enough to clue in to that one, dude.
Sorry ducky, switching from Left to Right doesn’t get it done. Same coin, other side.
First you encompass the idea of an objective and knowable reality, then you start thinking about your place in it, and waaaay as an afterthought politics might come into it. Maybe.
The true “Conservative” is a person for whom politics is like manure. Something that has its place, but too much of it just gets in the way and stinks the joint up. Government is a necessary evil, not the be-all and end-all of civilized existence.
Still, the comparison between Obama ans Hillary is well taken. Where she’s just a power hungry grifter, he’s a full-on mental case with a God complex.
Like Robert Frost in his poem “A Considerable Speck” no one can know how glad I am to find
on any sheet the least display of mind.
But it is hard not to feel a little bitter because for years you have enjoyed the aura of being a liberal while we have been social outcasts.
I suppose like the prodigal son we should welcome you back, although I always found that parable most unfair.
O’Reilly’s gotta get her on for an interview. “Don’t PC on me, Bro…and thanks for turning off the taser” could be the next big selling t-shirt.
I’d put in a order for half a dozen myself!
“Female yuppie: “I could never vote for that evil man. If he ever gets elected, he’s going to take away all the rights to my body.”
Heh, had a similar discussion just last nite at a dinner party. Two old friends who Iâve known forever and I were debating the merits of ‘truth/attack’ ads. One of my friends was there with his 22 year old daughter who just graduated from university and was planning on a masters/PhD future.
She politely listened for some time then offered her opinion. It was the first time I ever heard her want to seriously engage in political discourse with the adults. I wanted to listen equally politely and encourage her, hoping for some uncluttered critical thinking. Anyway I hid my increasing bafflement as her position made no sense for or against or in between, I couldnât recap if I tried. She ended her position with; “âŚitâs like no old white guy is going to tell me what to do with my body.â I was flummoxed but fortunately at that moment the conversation took an entirely different turn and it was left hanging.
I fear for the young.
I’ve had the displeasure of meeting several Yale graduates in the past few years. None of them would ever be the poster boys/girls for “Critical Thinking”!
It’s one thing to turn one’s back on “liberalism”. It’s quite another to go singing the praises of the Republican Party as an alternative to the Democrats. There’s not much between them: both for big government, and having many of their prominent personalities obsessed with power. A plague on both their houses.
nv53, I think you’re both right & wrong.
I agree with you wholeheartedly that the Republican Party has grown bloated and misdirected. But I personally know MANY conservatives who absolutely want to change the GOP into something much more akin to what you’re indicating you’re seeking.
Between now & Nov. 2010 will be an indication of whether they’re successful.
canada becoming post socialist. not bloody likely.we dig the pit of government control deeper every day. please show be at what point government and government spending has been less one year over the other. show me what year that any level of government did not pass new laws or regulations. can’t be done because it has never happened. ever.
All incompetent egotistical fools surround themselves with lesser lights, what better way to look intelligent.
How is it possible that Obama could drag the US down to a level lower than that of the corrupt years of cretien in such a short period of time? That is some kind of special talent.
Leftards NEVER know any better … it is the distinguishing characteristic of the breed.
Any revelation that leads them to actual thought is precious rare.