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randron commented on the blog post An Even More Modest Proposal
I teach H.S. English and Swift is often lost on today’s students. They think literally and seem to have a hard time with satire (except when it’s their own). Ironically (and sadly), conservatives today are no different than they were in Swift’s day. They lamented their circumstance but refused to take any action whatsoever to alleviate the problem. Today’s Cons are the same. For example: If there’s fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program, don’t hire enough staff to root out and eliminate it, eliminate the whole program instead! If banksters crash the economy, don’t investigate to discover what went wrong and regulate appropriately … blame everyone and give your rich benefactors a multi-trillion dollar bail-out while working hard to cover up any and all wrongdoing. My only quibble with your position is the fact that by failing to eat the “takers,” we lose out on a valuable resource that could be leveraged for the “makers” profit … and we all know that profit is what keeps the “job creators” in a position of power over the “parasites.” Cheers!
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randron commented on the diary post President Barack Herbert Hoover Obama Explains How to Avoid a Depression by Scarecrow.
Perhaps Mr. Obama should listen to Winston Churchill among others who have said, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” How can someone supposedly so “smart” be so “dumb?”
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randron commented on the blog post Late Night: Teenaged Barbarian Socialists Are Taking Over America, So How Can We Ask Glenn Beck to Not Talk Crap?
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. We didn’t rebel against the social etiquette of the times … we rebelled against the HYPOCRICY of the times. We were sold a historical and political “bill of goods” that we did not see reflected in the reality of our lives or in American society as a whole. We were taught to tell the truth but our leaders lied to us. We were taught that “all men are created equal” but that some were more equal than others. We were taught that America has always been a bastion of liberty and democracy but discovered that many of our “allies” were dictators and despots. You get the idea. How about we work on being honest, treat people the way we want to be treated, love our neighbors as ourselves, and consistently apply what we profess to believe in our words and actions. Social mores cannot be maintained when they are based on lies. Republicans PREFER the mask to the reality, therefore they prefer the lie to the truth. They defend their right to be hypocrites by defending the mask. The fantasy of “the good ol’ days” is how they retain their relevance … at least in their own minds.
