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2013-10-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Slavery Party - The Democratic Party

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Posted by Silentbrick - Oil Rig Insanity Division 2013-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It amazes me talking to kids sometimes today just how ignorant they are, about EVERYTHING. Even worse, they all have smartphones, computers and internet, yet none have mowed a yard, know how to change the oil in their car or heaven forbid, every played with a slingshot or bb gun.

The Internet represents the greatest repository of knowledge and information in the history of mankind, at nearly everyone's fingertips, yet it is squandered.
Sometimes I look at the country today and don't see any way out of it. How do you turn this around? Is there a way without another blood bath like the Civil War?

I scoffed at this notion five years ago. No longer...

Posted by Raj 2013-10-10 00:50|| 2013-10-10 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Picard speech!

Posted by Raj 2013-10-10 00:54|| 2013-10-10 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 One has to wonder if kids today even know that there is an internet out there beyond facebook or myspace or twitter (for twits). Or Wikipedia.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-10-10 01:32|| 2013-10-10 01:32|| Front Page Top

#4 It amazes me talking to kids sometimes today just how ignorant they are, about EVERYTHING.

Once you abolished corporal punishment, replaced achievement with "self esteem",and turned teachers' colleges into tools of "female emancipation", what the f*ck did you expect?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-10 01:48|| 2013-10-10 01:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, all these things are true of the youth but there is much more to be seen. They are not engaged perhaps. Many just want to go about life everyday free of the conflicts and troubles of this life. I know many who don't read the current news or watch the TV news. Viewer-ship is in decline. Those expensive magazines at the checkout lines don't sell well at all now. USA today is 2.00 dollars and if you travel you may still get your free copy but its smaller. The Sun has also made their paper smaller. The youth and public are turning away from various things. Even from politicians. Yes the schools are a failure but those who wish to achieve are still with us. What I enjoy about being male is we many times go our own way. Not so easy to program us. I think we all have a little Max Max in us. The Dem's are failing miserably. They have failed their own people also. It's like the old Redskins joke. Only senior citizens are Redskin fans.Why because it has been so long since they have won.They are still loyal anyway. Loyal to an old ideas their party has forgotten.

Posted by Dale 2013-10-10 04:55|| 2013-10-10 04:55|| Front Page Top

#6 "For those of us who have actually looked at history, we know the Democratic party in this nation has been and in my opinion, still is the party of slavery."

Very true. The only thing that's changed is that they've substituted political slavery for the slavery of picking cotton at gunpoint. And instead of whipping those who try to escape, they now punish them with ostracism.

"Sometimes I look at the country today and don't see any way out of it."

I don't either. I think we're royally screwed. Back in 2008 I thought we'd reached rock-bottom in electing Obama as president, but I was wrong: we bottomed out in 2012 when we re-elected him. At that point, it became clear that America's progressivism sickness will be fatal.

"How do you turn this around? Is there a way without another blood bath like the Civil War?"

No.

Posted by Dave D. 2013-10-10 06:56|| 2013-10-10 06:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Is there a way without another blood bath like the Civil War?
No, and not even that way. Better analog would be the Revolutionary War though, without French help or an ocean to cross with sailboats.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-10-10 08:09|| 2013-10-10 08:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Income and their half-twin sales taxes are a form of slavery.

You are allowed to farm 40% of the year, and the other 60% you build temples to the Obama-Pharaoh.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-10-10 08:26|| 2013-10-10 08:26|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't think we get civil war. I think we get a great depression that keeps going and sets us back economically to a state of pre-ww2. With the economy shrunk so far the government can't fulfill the promises they've made and kids are forced to work to help their families survive. At that point things basically start over to some extent.

We had a good run after WW2 but we squandered it. These things run in cycles and the inbetween cycle is probably pretty nasty when you've witnessed the top of the cycle, but its not the end.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-10-10 14:44|| 2013-10-10 14:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Civil War? No, kinda silly actually.
Outside chance of a Coupe de la Peeps tho. A week or 2 or friction? Maybe? I hate to use the words.... but we have the Optics.

Posted by Shipman 2013-10-10 18:13|| 2013-10-10 18:13|| Front Page Top

#11 It amazes me talking to kids sometimes today just how ignorant they are, about EVERYTHING. Even worse, they all have smartphones, computers and internet, yet none have mowed a yard, know how to change the oil in their car or heaven forbid, every played with a slingshot or bb gun.

Just today I opened a package from my little sister; she was cleaning house and found my Erector Set!

the one with steel, not plastic bits.

will be passing that on to attorney son (after I build some really cool stuff)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-10-10 19:04|| 2013-10-10 19:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Was gonna spamcop that till I worked out it wasn't an advert for v14gra.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-10-10 20:14|| 2013-10-10 20:14|| Front Page Top

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