Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-11-11 06:23 PM
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Red State America is all about fear and DEATH.
Country music is whiny and negative. I refuse to have anything to do with it.
Talk radio is hate radio, these rednecks are whipped into a state of fear and anger. The blacks and the browns are taking EVERYTHING away from them including their jobs. Everything is somebody else's fault.
Dear Manifestor_of_Life...that's a pretty interesting moniker you've got there considering the seething contempt and condescension of your tone. As half my family is Mexican your stereotype is way off base (in other words you're a ****ing liar). But I understand you folks are so insecure that you need to have conservatives and Christians fit your template. Without identity politics that puts everyone in neat little boxes you'd have to think for yourself and get to know people on an individual basis. However, I know how you feel, I pretty much live in blue state hell, though I'm certainly not miserable. Since identity politics isn't part of my life I have friends from all walks of life and all political persuasions: gay, straight, "brown", "black" (those are your terms and since you have a hard time seeing beyond color I figured I'd better use them), Christian, Atheist, pro choice, and I don't have a clue. I don't know anyone whose taken anyone else's job, though most of my friends & family have great jobs they got by earning them.
As far as talk radio, I understand you're experience with talk radio was Air America and they're all as bitter and angry as you are so of course you'd think all talk radio is hate filled. The rest of your concept comes from Media Matters who have a problem with context and, on more than one occasion, outright lied. Since you all huddle in groups thinking the same thoughts you'd have an extremely difficult time making an adult, individual decision to listen for yourself for a week so you can see if you're assumptions are true.
In church, they sit there and put up with an ignorant preacher telling them they are EEEVILLLLL and SINNERS and they are going to HELL or else......no self-esteem there. I have too much self-esteem to put up with a Christian minister and their message of original sin. It drove me nuts, so I left. They just want to scare people and take their money so they can live high on the hog and feel holy and righteous.
If you're attending a church that tells you you're evil all the time, I'd look for a different church because I've never been to one that tells it's members they're evil every week. While we are all sinners (those like yourself who sit in judgement of others as well) the church I'm a member of always has a message of hope. Jesus sacrificed himself and we are saved by grace because of a loving God.
As far as self esteem goes, self esteem not EARNED is meaningless. Charles Manson is loaded with self esteem, as was Ted Bundy (well probably most serial killers). Watch gang members (these don't have to be brown or black people in spite of your prejudice), they strut around like kings of their little fiefdom. Look closely at rich Democrats like Nancy Pelosi or John Kerry (who married his money). Their self esteem has made them arrogant and selfish. Truly, what has George Soros done for you? He buys influence through "foundations". They talk a good game but if they truly believed the tenants they constantly preach, they wouldn't be living "high on the hog" because they'd be handing out money to those who are less fortunate than themselves. Look how many of them fight the IRS and cheat on their taxes. Warren Buffet, while owing tax money, frets about his poor secretary who pays more taxes than he does, but evidently doesn't pay her enough to rise above her tax burden.
Again, if you are attending a church where the preachers take your money and keep it for themselves then you need to find another church. My church spends money on many things salaries, of course (just because it's a calling they still need to feed their families), staff, Sunday School materials, and a variety of other things you find in most churches. We also give for our youth group to go on a mission to an area where they need help building a school or some other such project, to missionaries, the Salvation Army, food for our food cupboard to help needy families in our community, etc.
I have neighbors with six foot tall torture devices in their front yards to show their "faith". Bullshit. It's a primitive syncretic (nothing original in it) death cult.
You know, even if you don't believe the Bible is the living word of God, it's still an incredible piece of literature full of symbolism, pathos and passion, the wide range of thoughts and emotions that are part of the human condition. It's filled with the ordinary lives of ordinary people, some who rose to great challenges and others who lived more like you and I. It's got lessons for life that are helpful even if you don't believe. Sure a cross was used for torture back when Jesus lived but the promise is in the risen Christ, so it's also a symbol of sacrifice and forgiveness and REAL hope (and change through redemption). Of course if you're so incapable of acting like an adult and are offended by a mere symbol in your neighbor's yard you could always build a fence tall enough that you don't have to look at it.
They live fueled by hatred of Obama, hatred of blacks, hatred of those lazy Messcans who are takin' their jobs (which one is it)???
In a way, I feel sorry for you because your prejudice causes you to live with such anger and hate in your heart that you're incapable of seeing people as individuals. Southerners, Christians, even minorities who you supposedly care about have certain traits, lifestyles, and assumed values. You can't see that, just as you hated Bush, we aren't fond of 0bama's policies and the harm they've caused our country and the rest of the world, even. We're capable of looking past his color, to treat him like the educated grown man that he is and hold him responsible for his actions. You think he must be both coddled and put on a pedestal because he happens to have dark skin.
I hate it here.
Given you're negative outlook on life you'd probably hate it anywhere. But perhaps if you work on your negative attitudes and your prejudices you'd be a happier person.
Cindie
