DUmmy cali, still bitter after having been wallduded from her waitressing job at a Masshole coffee house in Vermont, has decided she hates America:
cali (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 06:40 AM
Original message
this country scares the living daylights out of me
Any country that regularly elevates people like Perry, Bachmann, Palin and the majority of repubs in Congress and in U.S. statehouses, is reflective of a sick and broken society. Any country that relies so heavily on its military and war, is reflective of a culture that's lost its way completely. Any country that excoriates the poor, the elderly, the disabled and children has no ****ing right to ask for my loyalty or patriotism.
We're a culture that, I'm afraid, is broken beyond repair.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1867924DUmmy cali's brain has been damaged by the earwigs that infest Perennial Pleasures.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 06:55 AM
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2. Easy for you to say, sitting up there in socialist utopia Vermont.
Come on down here in the BuyBull Belt and tell us about it.
I'm pretty sure I've said that to you before though..
Well, DUmmy Fumesucker, it's not exactly a utopia when you've been wallduded into the Kenyan's Recovery Summer.
DUmmy MHnumber is having a little trouble with moving on. Still whining after nearly eleven years:
MH1 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 06:57 AM
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3. unfortunately, I have to agree with you.
I felt this way back in 2000. I was shocked and appalled that Bush got enough votes to even be able to steal the election. Then, that there was relatively little outrage against the clear voting irregularities that at least (from a moderate view) threw the election into question but yet the SC awarded it to Bush anyway. (Of course I take a stronger view that there was no question that more people in Florida attempted to vote for Gore.)
mmonk (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 07:01 AM
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5. It's dark, no doubt. We need a press and a stage where discussion
can take place but there is no venue or platform for proper debate, only corporate news and political lies and hate speech.
RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 07:26 AM
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6. The country, collectively, is pathologically ill, a psychosis. We are going through a
major void of sound leadership at many levels. Better individuals in many cases are not running for office, they are intelligent, compassionate and know how F'ed up this country has become. You summed up well the situation.
The culture we are morphing into is unstable and dangerous for the majority of the citizens. Many don't see it, they have been brainwashed by what we call MSM in this country which is propaganda shoved on us by a few mega-corporate conglomerates controlled by great wealth and benefactors of a dysfunctional society.
I'm not sure where we are headed anymore, but I doubt we will see much repair down the road. Depending on 2012, we well might see the dark ages propelled into this country quickly.
Sadly, I'm reaching pretty much the same conclusion as you, "We're a culture that, I'm afraid, is broken beyond repair."
Aside from those few points, DUmmy RPKnumbers is pretty happy with things. I still think he could be a Perry voter.
dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 08:48 AM
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17. "that western culture IS a collective mental disorder."
I have read nothing recently that says it better than that.
the capitalism model has always struck me as as aberrant.
Got kicked out of my econ. class in college for saying that, I did. Proud moment.
Bonobo (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 07:28 AM
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7. That is why I took my family and left.
Those are not values I want my kids to internalize.
When they are grown, they can choose their own country as I have.
newfie11 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 08:36 AM
Response to Reply #7
12. where did you go?
I have been looking around at different countries myself.
Bonobo (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 08:54 AM
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18. Japan.
Uh, okay. I've visited Japan dozens of times, and enjoy at least the food, but DUmmies have no idea. The Japanese language is nearly impossible for an American to learn. The degree of racism commonly and unquestioningly accepted in Japanese culture would make a DUmmy's jaw hit the ground. The media in Japan is simply an extension of the Japanese government. But they're all non-white, and they're not Americans, so I guess DUmmies might love it.
DUmmy newfienumbers gives the Nebraskan view:
newfie11 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 08:43 AM
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15. It scares me also.
I am amazed at the people that don't seem to care what is going on, where this country is headed, and the insanity of the republicans running for president as well as congress.
Here in Nebraska (WY-CO-NE corner) most folks seem totally oblivious as to whats happening with our society and are not interested in anything outside this area.
This is a farming/ranching community and come hell or high water they will vote repug. God help this country.
Now the DUmmies give a hilarious distortion of the great Reagan years, from the viewpoint of perpetual losers:
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 08:44 AM
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16. Anyone who lived through the Reagan administration and just realized this wasn't paying attention
Some of us had no choice but to pay attention back then because we were living through that nightmare.
Chipper Chat (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 10:09 AM
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19. We are not over the grip of St. Ronnie.
Many, many 'Murcans' are still gripped by the patriotic and religious dogma of Reagan and his henchmen (Baker, GHWB, Peggy Noonan, even Evil Dick, etc Clinton made a lot of headway but Monica set things back. Fox and Limbaugh have done their job well and the media licks Fox's ass. Obama has no balls (unless he is 'like a Jedi knight waiting to strike in his second term' as one DUer put it a year ago). The death of Ted Kennedy, in my view, was when the steam went out of the democratic party. We just don't have any strong leaders with enough clout anymore to make a difference. We need a JFK.
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-03-11 10:40 AM
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20. I have a theory on why so many people who lived then forget it
I think it is because many people who were negatively effected by Reagan policies block it out. I sure know I did that for a long time. We were traumatized. Then I started realizing that I have not fully recovered financially from that period to this very day. Went down hill back then and never really recovered. It has been one step forward, and two steps back ever since.
I've always said I enjoy anything that causes DUmp democrats pain, either physical, financial, or emotional.
They wail at the memory of President Reagan
Anything that causes DUmmies that much distress has to be good.
Another point in favor of the greatest American of the twentieth century.