Toonces27 (455 posts) Tue Feb-26-08 09:03 PM
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11. Nobody cares.
The vast majority cares about getting their kids to soccer practice and what's happening on their favorite teevee shows. Most are totally put off by anything that mentions politics or government, and the rest get their information from the likes of Brian Williams. They are a perfectly-behaved herd of sheep.
This attitude, this complete arrogance from some thankless idiot on a message board angers me. Those people, those "sheep" are the consumers and the taxpayers, the engine that runs this country. They pay for the meds of half the posters on DU. They support the moonbats living on social security disability, unemployment and welfare so those losers can spend their days passing judgment on those very same people. As if somehow the ability to spend your days proclaiming yourself to be wiser, more enlightened, more informed makes it so.
Those people who just want to come home in the evening and watch a little "teevee" instead of listening to some pundit drone on and on about how terrible their country is, how bad the economy is, how bad the war is going, and the latest non-scandal of the executive branch not only buy the ipods, the video games, shin guards, and Toyotas, but manufacture them as well. They pay the salary, the retirement benefits, even the union dues of public school teachers who indoctrinate their children with values they don't share while those teachers have the freedom during THEIR day to sit at a computer and whine about the stupidity of the human race. I'd love to have the free time the average school teacher has. Livestock has to be cared for whether it's Presidents' Day, Christmas (excuse me, winter holiday), or even Sunday.
Day after day they take their taxpayer provided meds, check on their appointment with taxpayer paid for psychiatrist, or physician, or social worker, check to see if their government check made it to the bank, then complain about all the things THEY don't have. They never consider they're enjoying that free health care they constantly scream about. Granted, it's not good enough but the thing is, it never will be. They don't really want "health" care...they don't want to get better, they want enablers. They want someone to give them meds, pat them on the back and tell them how rotten their life is because of the government, their doctor, the gullibility of those taxpayers who pay the bills...all the while believing a degree in Art History should be qualification enough to make them CEO of Coca Cola and it's simply the poor hand that they've been dealt that keeps them from assuming their rightful place of power. And of course things would be different if THEY were in charge.
They complain all day about the rights they've lost (the irony of exercising their most important right...freedom of speech to proclaim democracy dead evidently escapes those geniuses). They hold in high esteem some ancient tribe that treated their women like chattel while holding in contempt the 21st century men working hard to provide a good life for their families, who take their wives out every week, buy them anniversary gifts, and don't complain (at least not very much) when she bought that pair of shoes she just "couldn't live without". Somehow, those kind, gentle providers are evil and chauvinistic, but some Indian with three wives who beats them all regularly is some kind of noble savage. Yet, not one of them could survive the harsh conditions those savages lived in every single day. They complain about the price of a loaf of bread...how would they ever get through a winter when the meat supplies were dwindling and there was no game to be found? Trampling around hiking trails on the weekend with that new pack you just got from REI is a far cry from living in those conditions everyday.
Just once I'd like to see them count their blessings.
Cindie
