Parky60 wrote:
The progressive left will never, ever understand what real Americans want from their government, because real Americans just want to be left alone by their government. They think we can be bought, they think we can be manipulated into jealousy which will override our natural instincts. They are wrong. The games that work on their weak-minded coastal v**ers doesn’t work in “flyover” country, and it never will.
You hear it all the time: Why are these people “v****g against their interests?” The vapid husks of humans on MSNBC ask that regularly. They think they can buy v**es of Midwesterners and others in the middle of the country. They can’t.
I grew up in northeast Ohio in a lower-middle class family – 6 of us in a house with no basement, three small bedrooms with 1½ bathrooms – and I have zero memory of being anything but happy. Other people had more, but to the extent we were unaware of what we didn’t have, we didn’t care.
There was no reality TV or social media seemingly existing to make everyone envious of other people, which may well have been a factor. But the biggest factor was we had two parents who loved us and each other, who weren’t going to suffer us whining about what we didn’t have. It wasn’t really an issue – our summer vacations driven to Washinton DC in a 1955 Ford with a hole in the rear floor crowded in with 6 people, Fairyland Forest and Conneaut Lake Park in western Pennsylvania or Chautauqua Lake in New York were a blast, chosen, we thought, for that reason. I came to find out later they were chosen because they didn’t cost much, we made it a blast.
If you sit around and obsess on what you don’t have you are going to lead a miserable life. While happiness is not guaranteed, appreciating what you do have will go a long way toward making you happy.
Most middle-class Americans simply want to make enough to cover their bills and have some left over to have fun with family and friends on the weekends. We don’t need mansions or Ferraris, we’re pretty content. We’d take them, don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to rip up a winning lottery ticket, but that’s not a goal that missing that’s going to ruin my life.
When l*****ts ask “What’s the matter with Kansas?” or lie about “White Rural Rage,” they’re exposing just how polluted their minds are. They think we can be bought, and don’t understand why we are lining up for the government cheese.
There’s a very simple reason, aside from our desire to simply be left alone by the government: We see what their policies have done to their v**ers.
In Ohio, that house I grew up in was within 20 miles outside the city limits for Cleveland, but I remember going into the belly of the city with my father as a child. Everyone saw what slavish loyalty to v****g for Democrats created – once one of the leading economic engines of the country, the city is a disaster. The downtown area has improved a lot in recent years, but the neighborhoods where people actually live are depressed areas of economic destruction.
Democrats did that. Their policies did that.
The same pot of gold at the end of the rainbow Democrats promised v**ers in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia, etc., has been promised to everyone else, but it’s poison. We see it, we know it.
The only major city not a cesspool of progressive poison is New York, but that’s only because things had gotten so bad they elected a Republican who turned it around. Democrats are in the process of undoing all the good Rudy Giuliani did because he’d made the city so good it gave the left cover to lie again.
We aren’t interested. Like I said, there’s nothing government can offer that will make good people turn against ourselves. That is what is in “our interests,” not “free” handouts and making sure we can suckle up to the government teat.
Paul Krugman and his rich friends deserve your hatred, not because they don’t get this, but because they don’t care. They want to make everyone dependent on government so they can control us. We aren’t interested, which makes his ilk h**e us all the more. Good. They’re scum. If people like that don’t h**e you, you’re doing it wrong. If they don’t fear you – your political power and everything else – you’re doing that wrong too.
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I went to college with state grants, PELL grants, work-study, and any other grant or scholarship I could find.
Once my business was established I paid more in taxes in a single quarter than all the grants and aid provided by the government. Do I feel the government bought me, nope. And say we go "FULL C****E" and have healthcare and make all state schools free up through the first two years of college or trade school free for the participant but paid for by taxes? Why is that a horror?
As for being dependent on the government using government benefits during times of need isn't dependency. Rush Limbaugh once went on unemployment. He managed to navigate his government dependence quite well. My first business loan was backed by the government and I came out just fine. Wh**ever horrors about government dependency you may have, exists in your mind and no place else. And do people become dependent on the government? Sure. But there are far more people who benefit from the government than become dependent. Plus, didn't you cons fix welfare dependency during the 90's? No more freeloaders? So what's the problem???