What Republicans do

[Eric the Green]

(10-21-2017, 05:16 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-21-2017, 04:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(10-21-2017, 08:59 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-17-2017, 07:12 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Good point. I was wondering today how much convenience I am really willing to give up for the collective good.

... and that's it in a nutshell.  As a nation, we aren't ready to suffer even minor discomfort -- not yet anyway.  What will take us there and when are both open questions.  I'm still in the not-this-time camp.  We may have to suffer greatly to benefit greatly.  We're too old to suffer the worst of it, and will certainly not be around to witness the best either.  I do fear for those much younger.  They didn't make the mess, but they'll be the clean-up crew.

We will be able to make great sacrifices when going along with a trend that economic elites have imposed upon us violates our core beliefs. Do you believe that America would have done an invasion on the scale of D-Day (the most lethal day in American history except for some in the Civil War) except that we found defeating the Nazi menace a compelling necessity?

We will make great collective sacrifices when the menace is individual evil for almost all people. If one sees  'our' economic elites as menaces to our freedom, prosperity, and personal dignity then even we American will turn against those elites.

Right now, you are a bigger menace than the elites you claim are the ones keeping you/us down. You're the menace because you're one that we can see. Eric is another menace that we can see as well.

Those who vote Republican are those who do not see or refuse to see the threat posed by those economic elites, and by the trickle-down philosophy that allows them to dominate our society for their own interest. They enable that philosophy to continue to deceive and oppress us. It's time for more of us to awaken. I'm not convinced that we can't awaken and resume progress, even in the lifetime of boomers-- even though we continue to ride the pendulum back and forth between incremental progress and, what we ride today, destructive and total regression. I'm proud if I am really a "menace" to that regression. I can only hope so.