They say history repeats itself, like what does it think we are deaf or something, first as a romantic comedy and then as an action movie I think.
I remember trying to debate kids when I was in junior high, stupid twats who thought Nixon was the man. Today Beta came home and told me about an exchange student who visited her school today. He was a nice kid from Louisiana, she said, until they got onto the subject of the current tenant of the White House (note for readers from the future: that means George W. Bush, hard to imagine isn’t it).
The poor boy had been indoctrinated, (probably by his dad while trapped in the car with him on the way to school every morning) because he spouted all the blah-blah liberating the Iraqis this and cutting taxes that. Beta gave him his money’s worth (not that I’d ever brag about my kids). So she went all deficit/warpresident?AWOL/etc on his ass. I don’t understand the people currently calling themselves “Conservatives” in the US (who BigTimePatriot compares to the Vichy French). They’re not conservative at all, they’re among the most radical people I know.
There was more I wanted to say about this but it’s late and I have to get to bed; sometimes, I wanted to say, sometimes I fear I get a black-and-white view of politics, living outside the country like this, jumping to conclusions with a minimum of news. Then I think, what people get from the media in the States isn’t always news either, it’s attitude, or spin, or simple propaganda. This phenomena isn’t limited to the States, you’ll get it anywhere in different degrees; the shit-to-news ratio probably varies in relation to the level of totalitarianism in the country, I’d think. Like, North Korea: not much news. Sweden, Ireland and other nice countries like that: mostly news. US, somewhere in the middle, moving gradually towards the totalitarian end of the spectrum since the end of the Cold War, thanks Ronnie for driving that bulldozer and personally tearing down the wall. Or was it a concentration camp he liberated, I mix those up.
Louisiana conservative??? The state where the legislature currently in session considered a law that would forbid any trousers that showed the wearer’s underwear. And that is trying to add a definition of marriage as between one man and one woman (at a time, I assume) to their Constitution!! And last year conned the gullible conservatives into a constitutional amendment that raised the income taxes of people who itemized deductions? (These same people are screaming bloody murder because they didn’t read what they voted on.) I have the political misfortune to live in the most republican parish in the state. At least we managed to get a democratic governor last year–who happens to be a woman. And, it looks like this current legislative session is finally removing all the past Jim Crow laws from the books.
Did they learn anything from being conned into raising their own taxes?
Ronnie always got those things mixed up to. It’s one of those ‘endearing’ habits that George Jr. has as well. Staying grounded in reality is so non-conservative these days.
Learned anything?? Consider where Louisiana ranks in public education. Let’s hope that they learned (to quote Heinlein) TANSTAAFL.
(there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch
“They say history repeats itself, like what does it think we are deaf or something, first as a romantic comedy and then as an action movie I think.”
That’s just the best thing I’ve heard all month.