Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[Galen]

(09-04-2016, 03:29 AM)taramarie Wrote:

(09-04-2016, 03:13 AM)Galen Wrote:

(09-04-2016, 02:46 AM)taramarie Wrote:

(09-04-2016, 02:07 AM)Galen Wrote:

(09-04-2016, 01:19 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Galen and Eric tend to indulge in what I call 'vile stereotypes'.  They have spliced together the worst aspects of members of their opposite cultures into ugly caricatures, and will try to sell their venom as if it represents the culture of their political rivals.  They are highly partisan and as such are making no attempt to understand or sympathize with people who disagree with them.

There is a couple of things that you are forgetting.  One is that I don't really do red or blue and both teams  tend to embody the worst of the Boomers.  While their objectives may be different the means often tend to be the same.

(09-04-2016, 01:19 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The awakening was a brief though glorious dream time.  Eric is in some ways an echo of it.  Not a total echo.  Most blue boomers aren't into astrology or mysticism.  Eric has become something of a hawk of late, which is not representative of the old anti-war hippies.  Most blue boomers did grow out of the awakening mood, and got into wives, family, jobs and (shudder) disco.  They in time outgrew the disco as well.  As much as anyone on this forum, though, Eric might give you some impression of hippie culture.  I'm a blue boomer too, though.  Not all blue boomers are totally alike.  Beware vile stereotypes.  Don't judge the United States as a scrambled collection of hateful partisan propaganda.

Eric the Obtuse is not merely an echo but rather still acts as if its 1968.  If he were living in Oregon he would have moved to Eugene which is where all the hippies went, this process started about 1985.  In the present Eugene seems to be populated by militant vegans.  A friend of mine was working at HP when one of them complained to her about eating a hamburger during a meeting.  In typical Xer fashion she started eating hamburgers at this vegan.  Militant vegans are the only people on Earth it is possible to eat a hamburger at.

Here is one thing you need to know about politics: Seventy percent of the population doesn't really matter because they are just picking the lesser of evils.  The remaining thirty percent are the ones that do matter because they are busy lining up the rest who do about as much thinking as a herd of cattle.  This is the crowd that tends to embody the worst of any population because they are doing even less thinking than the herd is.

Bob is looking back on the Awakening as a good time because for most of the Boomers it was.  They were simply too blitzed out or self-absorbed to notice much of anything.  The rest of us really didn't enjoy the experience.

I have to appreciate the rights they gave to those who had less rights. Like for us women for instance. Some may have been stoned but they must have been fighting for equality and won. They were here in NZ anyway.

Here in the US they were much more self-centered they were simply trying to save their own asses.  The rest of the time they were trying to find themselves by getting stoned, laid and listening to rock and roll.  Boomers like Bob have been spending decades trying to convince anyone who will listen that Boomers were not a disaster.  Nobody ever see themselves as a villain, its what gets them through the day.

But they improved the opportunities available for women, blacks etc and how gays are viewed etc right? I mean clearly you guys are not living with the mind set that was rampant back in the 50s on a woman's "place" and less rights for them, women and gays were viewed as unhealthy. Clearly they have had some good influence.

If you want to see something interesting do a little research.  Look at black poverty rates through the twentieth century and tell me if you notice anything unusual.  I knew women who lived before the sixties and they never complained about being oppressed and did not like the feminists of the sixties and later.  As for the gays, they were never looking for tolerance but rather approval which I don't think is ever really going to happen.

You may not realize it but the political correctness is really beginning to wear thin in the US.  No doubt a reaction to the last fifty years.