Bourdain: Liberals scorn working class
Interesting, one of them accidentally got it. But I bet it falls on deaf ears. Their well trained snowflake brigade would break down in tears at the very idea that the un-understanding barbarians actually may have a point.
Especially for you and your pals, I will bring a special recipe of hemlock tea, you smug, condescending, elitist, ignorant savage.
Your alleged talent is cooking. You have no wisdom or experience that qualifies you to place your perverted political ideas above the rights of all individuals guaranteed by the constitution. You are dependent on those fine individuals who think they voted against statist acts that you and your pals impose. They are not dependent on you or any of your looting statist pals.
You propose more of the same compromising rubbish that has destroyed individual liberty and crippled free markets.
Get out of the way you sanctimonious jackass.
Hip and cool New Yauwker gets that insulting 60+ million people is not taken so kindly. Apparently he is aware of this because of his travels around the country. The rest of the lib/eliteist's are like the most of the guests Mrs Henry Reardon invited to her aniversary party. This guy reminds me of Paul Larkin (edit) who pretended to be Hanks friend.
Only to sweep in and destroy Reardon Iron Ore.
At any rate, on the upside, it does reveal that, in fact, the Leftist/Libs are becoming fractionated.
" 'The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.'" This supposed quotation is not actually in Dante's work, but is based upon a similar one. In the Inferno, Dante and his guide Virgil, on their way to Hell, pass by a group of dead souls outside the entrance to Hell. These individuals, when alive, remained neutral at a time of great moral decision. Virgil explains to Dante that these souls cannot enter either Heaven or Hell because they did not choose one side or another. They are therefore worse than the greatest sinners in Hell because they are repugnant to both God and Satan alike, and have been left to mourn their fate as insignificant beings neither hailed nor cursed in life or death, endlessly travailing below Heaven but outside of Hell."
Consider THAT implication! The homeless ones.
(This is from a link to the JFK library.)
As I recall, BO used a very early meeting on the heath-care debate to directly and publicly remind the repubs of this fact. I think (hope) that Trump will take the very first opportunity to remind them - Loud and Clear.
It is like the limbo dance of ethics for the Leftist's.
How low can you go------
They just refuse to acknowledge the truth. It is not the messaging it is the message. I tire of the condescension. The average Joe is not an idiot. He understands and isn't buying the bilge.
Respectfully,
O.A.
It reminds me of Einstein's definition of insanity. ;{
Regards,
O.A.
"Liberalism"? (For some reason or other, AR used
to always print "conservatives" and "liberals" in
quotes).
"If you look around the world (in the Philippines, in England), the rise of nationalism, the fear of the Other. When people are afraid and feel that their government has failed them they do things that seem completely mad and unreasonable to those of who are perhaps under less pressure."
I think grouping people according to gun-country vs Eastern liberal is another form of the same out-group fear the fuels nationalism. I think nationalism will decrease on its own due to technology, but it remains to be seen what will happen with authoritarianism and identity-group hostility.
I think you have it backwards and President-elect Trump will increase the march to statism. I hope I am wrong. I will be pleased to be wrong.
not old enough to vote then); then he betrayed the
American people in 1971 with his wage/price con-
trols. (Also, look what he did in chummying up to
Red China). But I still voted for him in 1972, be-
cause the alternative was McGovern.
Of course I think they won the presidency in the electoral college despite being less popular. Time will tell though. Do you predict gov't spending, adjusted for inflation, will decrease or increase over the next two years? As far as getting us out of useless wars, do you predict fewer troops deployed and fewer airstrikes over the next two years? What does backtracking on PPACA and economic regulations look like? I'm asking so in two years we can assess whether the predictions came true.
For all that I would have hated a Jed Bartlett type administration, for its left-wing politics, one can only sit in awe of the fictional administration that demonstrated such a passion for governance and which got the ethics right, at least most of the time. I dare to hope for some of that passion and commitment from our incoming administration.
I remember that quote. I think it's totally true and applies to many issues beyond guns: drugs, religious issues, LGBTQ issues, the environment, crime, immigration. Often it's not about the issue. It's about dividing people into groups and using people's aversion to the other group to win elections. In it's worse form, it says the other group has always annoyed you, so here is your chance to annoy that group in some way.