Are Some Haters Of Government Sensing The Looming Regeneracy?

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(03-14-2017, 07:23 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:Sorry dude, Odin is worse than tragically misguided.  Unfortunately he hasn't demonstrated himself to be stupid yet either.  Impervious to facts that don't conform to his world view?  Certainly but that just means he's more or less normal.  I don't often agree with Mr. Bob but he's right in that people don't change their values unless they are harshly shown that they are not working.

I don't blame him too much.  He's still young, it's a fairly widely peddled and up until recently quite successful belief system, and like a lot of people from the sticks he's too insecure of his social status to buck it right now.  He's not stupid, he reads, and it's much easier to belief in some of the more egregiously stupid progressive shibboleths when you're not getting your nose rubbed in their contradictions on a daily basis.

There's hope for him yet.

He's 30 or pushing it. If IIRC he is an 86 cohort. There comes a point you have to put childish ideas away. But it could also be that he's not had the constant contradictions of his ideology rubbed in his face enough. Honestly I'm surprised life hasn't kicked the shit out him yet.

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Quote:Like it or not the petrodollar will eventually end and the largess of the federal government will implode in on itself.

Yeah, I don't think a lot of progressives have grappled with what the end of imperium, "white privilege", and a shift to sustainability will actually mean in material terms, particularly for them.

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They don't. Living sustaiably means that they are going to have to grow at least some of their food. I think that this is how many of the people stuck in suburbia will survive in the 1T. And we're not talking being all artisan and such. We're talking plowing up the lawn to grow veg to eat and sell.

If you don't garden I suggest starting.

As for "white privilege" that's bullshit. If anything being white is harder now since the Left over the course of the saeculum has reversed the flow of racism. The Boomers in particular seem to not understand that the way to stop being racist is to actually stop being racist.

(03-14-2017, 08:26 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Struck a nerve, did I? 

I think you have. Eric is impervious to facts even when the contradictions of his belief system are rubbed in his face on a daily basis.