Don't tell me the president never negotiates anything. That's a lie, a Republican Big Lie. Get over your victimhood and join the un-zombied human race.
Sometimes One Political Plaza is a fact-free waste of time. A place for dialogue? Maybe sometimes. But too often a place for trashing other people indiscriminately. I wish I knew where so many of you pick up your h**e-filed nonsense, your half-t***hs, and your desire to insult and demean anyone who offers a different answer,a more accurate explanation - well, a different answer. What self-esteem and joy you must derive from dismissing other people. I hope you don't reach the success of the twentieth century's greatest people- dismissers: the N**i Germans.
No: they're realism's talking points, not just Democratic. They're American talking points as opposed to some fantasy fanciers' talking points. They're two hundred million Americans' talking points, as opposed to some crypto-f*****t talking points.
Why reply to such elementary school excrement juggling?
The problem is that most of the commentators here seem to side with the real clear and present danger: The GOP, Gang of Predators, the enablers of corporate seizure of our government, the believers that the rich may buy the government of their choice, the folks who want to marginalize at least half of our population, driving them from jobs and opportunity, depriving them of health care, expelling them from the right to v**e, keeping inner-city schools deprived of reforms, letting the nation's infrastructure rot away so more people can die from collapsing bridges and failing highways, drive college graduates into destitution, and maybe create some wars in the Middle East so a few ordinary people's children can go abroad to fight, fight, fight while the corporate wealthy get corporately wealthier, enabling them to buy more politicians of their choice. And you hand me fantasized references to nasty political regimes in other countries' pasts. We have lost far more of our Constitution and rights in the last three decades because of GOP politicians - Got Other Priorities - and recent Supreme Court decisions by five politicians there, than at the hands of the Obama administration. Get your historical examples from historians, not from right-wing demagogues who make a million or more per year in the media misleading the American people. Or stop teaching "politicized" or twisted history.
Obsession is sometimes classified as a mental illness. Surely obsessive fantasies about presumed evildoers and their anticipated further evildoing qualify. You all know whom Obama will pardon one or two years from now? BS-ery of the most extreme kind. Amen
So many labels, I'm stunned by them all. There's a point at which the desperate need to believe can trigger a life of willful ignorance. Seen too many movies? Heard too much F**es News? Living in the Underground Rumor Network (URN)?
No wonder Republicans won control of Congress; they're the party of fantasy.
A subject not worth developing an illness over. Maybe Obama will pardon all the Republican fear- and h**e-mongering cheap politicians who've worked to prevent economic recovery for most Americans for four years. Oh, I guess the majority of the thirty-some percent of v**ers who v**ed last November have already pardoned the Gang of Predators (GOP).
What kind of people live with the conviction that there are evil plots not only outside the country but also throughout the U.S.A. up and into the highest levels of government? What went on in their civics classes? What evidence indicates that life is eternally filled with such situations? Fox News reports? NRA bulletins? Church sermons? Right-wing blogs? All day every day,week after week, month after month - as evidenced by congressional actions and inaction - money buys legislation or prevents it and moldy, outdated right-wing theories inspire legislation or prevent it. And many people are focused on outlandish plots involving a president whom they've been trained to fear by right-wing websites and politicians. Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick.
Still at it! Glaucon was mostly right; the rest of you would benefit from some books and magazine articles that deal with the real problems facing our society and its federal government today. Take a month or two off from OhReally, Limburger, Ann Coldershoulder, and Sean Hammitup, chuck the straitjacketing ideology (political religion), think about the millions suffering because of the greed and politcian-buying of a few relatively few preying parasites - and get a life.
It amazes me: now that we know what we know about biology and homosexuality, how can people cling to the dogmas of ancient, Medieval, and early modern folk who were ignorant of what we know today? Thank goodness no one in the Old and New Testament banned lighting that wasn't from wax or oil and communication that was not in person. Or did someone do that? Well, apparently the t***h shall not necessarily make one free. I'd like to know where, in Jesus' teachings, we are told to punish this or that entire group of people forever here on earth. Perhaps that sort of thing happened when some human beings expanded Jesus's teachings into a Church, so as to control other people.
Whaddya know - Christian neo-nasties. Thank goodness most western governments don't sponsor religious military crusades or homeland massacres anymore. Now it's just lob a label and hurl a little hatred, and the self-esteem rises, and there's no need for the sweat of warfare. One caution, though. Dismissing this or that group of human beings as unworthy of respect or of rights in society is a habit that has been known to lead to people dismissing others as unworthy of life. N**i Germany, for example. Today's Middle East. Well, it's amazing how many Christians are uninterested in Jesus.
rkevin: Labels and catch phrases learned from right-wing media mouths don't help one to think about our country's severe problems nor do they help a person to discuss the possibilities for change. Blaming the evil others - scapegoating - and seeing oneself as a pitiable (but smarter) victim of those others is nothing more than self-esteem building. Glaucon works with the facts, not the fantasies.