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Republicans aren’t assholes, which is the problem

I found my self watching the season two DVD set of Saturday Night Live, when I looked at the photo booklet that accompanied the set. In the booklet, there’s a picture of a note from Lily Tomlin which said: “Don’t be timidDon’t be non-descriptBe assholes” And that sums up what the Republican Party has been since I’ve been aware of it. The Republican Party is timid. They are nondescript. And the second one is really the key. That they are nondescript. In absence of taking any sort of stand and showing any conviction at all, the Republican Party, and…

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Evidence means nothing

This is where we are as a nation. With endless evidence sitting in front of our faces, way too many people don’t have the interpretive or critical thinking skills necessary to draw the correct, or any conclusions, from them. Cities like Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, or San Francisco, are unlivable hellholes, and they’ve been run by Democrats for decades, yet we continue to vote them back in. There are states in which students are back in school and playing out their sport seasons with no deaths, but other states seem to be unaware that demonstrably safe. The Republican Party has…

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The government works for us

Said another way, the government answers to us. (Because you’d have a hard time making the case that it works for anyone but them.) One of the foundational differences between conservatives and leftists is that conservatives believe and understand that the government answers to us. We elect them. We pay their salaries. They represent us. We tell them what we want them to do. Conversely, leftists believe government is all-knowing and all-seeing. Government has “experts,” who know better than the common folk. Government is to be trusted not only because they know best, but they specifically know what good…

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Absence of empathy

I wrote a post back in August that motivated a reader to tell me I have an “absence of empathy.” One can read the posts on this site (and one should) to get a feel for the ideas expressed. In general, I challenge notions like everyone is racist, masks and lockdowns will save us, and everyone is a victim. Because of these points of view, especially as expressed in this post, I was told I have an absence of empathy. That’s not surprising. Empathy in 2020 is being the first to say that “hate is not welcome here,” “all…

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Sinister or stupid?

Those appear to be our choices. As critical thinking people try and figure out why we are acquiescing to so much madness and why so many people are willing to be thoughtless sheep – never questioning the absurd contradictions that surround us – we’re left to consider the motives of our “experts” and decision-makers. Could people who raise taxes really be expecting a growth economy? Or are they motivated by something else? (Say, a larger government with more highly paid and equally highly useless bureaucrats…) Do government leaders who have shut down their states really believe people without incomes,…

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Anyone want to solve the news media problem?

It’s not hard to find stories in conservative media about news or media bias. Since it happens by the minute across United States mainstream media, you could chronicle the abuses all day and have job security forever. Our unified propaganda media is arguably the largest and most important problem facing this country. Without a news media interested in keeping citizens properly informed, motivated government officials can pretty much get away with or do whatever they want with the media blocking for them. My question: why isn’t anyone trying to solve it? It’s one thing to point out media bias,…

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The pressure of control

Leftists get into trouble because of their desire for control. When someone is always telling everyone else what to do and how to live, that person’s going to be under intense, microscopic scrutiny to follow the demands they’re making of everyone else. And well, they should be. Of course people would start calculating the energy consumption of Al Gore’s mansion after he’s spent so much time talking about “the inconvenient truth.” I remember in the 90s when someone went out of their way to find out and publicize that the tables at some conference he was publicizing came from…

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Keyboard warriors

It seems like most people can agree America is a pretty divided nation right now. It’s not that we have some disagreements. We’ve always had those. Sure, the nature of the disagreements have escalated a bit. It seems like we’ve gone from how best to manage America within the boundaries of capitalism to whether America is great or should be abandoned for a more government-controlled approach. It’s a significant divide, to be sure, and a very deep and rich debate we should have as a nation. But that’s the problem. It’s not the debate, but the fact that we…

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Racism is so stupid

So let me get this straight, some black people shame other black people who are successful because they’re following the rules and conventions of a society designed and established by white people. They call them “house negroes,” “uncle tom’s,” or “whitewashed.” This is so short-sighted, self-defeating, and stupid, I’m not sure why more people haven’t spoken out against it. The systemic racism that people claim exists in this country is squarely the stigma leftists have created against black people being successful within the capitalist confines of the United States. What they’re not understanding is that it’s that capitalist system…

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