straightUp wrote:
What, like Jane Goodall and her apes? Oooh!
Seriously though, I wouldn't knock anyone for writing about the thoughts of others (as long as it really is the thoughts of others). Can you link me to something she wrote? I tried to google but all I get is facebook pages, twitter accounts, obituaries and a profile on a general manager at AppleBee's. I guess she's not very famous but I'd like to see what she is saying.
I get a pretty good view of rural America when I leave the city (Philadelphia) twice a week to travel an hour to South Jersey for band practice with people who call themselves Pineys because they live in the pine barrens. Unlike North Jersey, which is pretty much an extension of NYC, South Jersey is rural and mostly agricultural. Even our music is rural (Irish Traditional and Bluegrass) and my band mates are ALL Trump supporters and Confederate sympathizers and trust me... they let me know what they are thinking. I usually just wait for them to finish their rants then say "are you ready to play music now?"
Sometimes I engage but I find more times than not they wind up shouting over me, but over time they have come to realize that I'm not so different. We share the same basic principles and we have a lot of overlap in the libertarian space but when it gets beyond that we just shake it off and start playing music. It's more fun anyway.
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In NY, after I left the service, I worked in a retail corporate structure and years later worked at middle management level on Wall Street. Still later, I started a security business in San Francisco that became quite lucrative very quickly.
During all of those periods I led an active social life, including the culture end of things. Society friends/acquaintances, symphony, theatre; lots of rock concerts sprinkled in, as wellπ. Same again in San Francisco.
A lot of my friends and associates were urbanites and in each city, especially NYC and SF, the locals spoke, thought and acted like their city was the center of the universe, and everyplace else was "the sticks."
On the other hand, time I've spent in rural Illinois, northern Nevada and a few other places in the "flyover zone" introduced me to people who were a lot less narcissistic and more genuinely curious about how people who lived different types of lives thought about things.
Your ilk tends to believe you are some sort of intellectual superiors who know better than anyone else how they should live and, when elected to public office, tend to "rule by theory" rather than actual reality.
You create more misery than good and are clueless about it because you never bother to spend any time around the victims of your "good deeds," and then you give yourselves public cudos and use the screwing of those victims as a resume item, while they suffer.
Zito talks to people and gets their honest input. Your ilk ignores any input that doesn't stress what a great job you're doing.
Essentially, your ilk are nothing more than self important, pompous blowhards who think you're a lot more clever than you actually are. The very fact that you are so easy for the far left to run a scam on that has been run so many times before with tragic results for millions of people indicates that you're not as big in the brains department as you think you are.
Not even close.