there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1 
Posted on 12/05/2020 4:58:16 AM PST by EyesOfTX
The fault for all this lies squarely at the feet of the GOPe
The Bushes more than anyone
there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1
AOC is a a prime example of reality denying idiot, little Marie Antoinettes prancing around in $2000 dresses who indeed have mocking despise for people who work and enjoy more reality
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Idiots playing at governance while exercising whim.
Versailles on the Potomac.
...Eeyores...
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As someone who has been accused of being Pollyanna, I have to at least nod to the Eeyores.
Just look at the calm among the progs as they continue divvying up the cultural and financial and other spoils of stolen and appropriated power.
This is precisely what they desire and they are just peachy-keen with it. They have no memory of freedom and despise it.
Those who applaud their theft of power will continue as long as they can afford the trappings they associate with the Good Life.
Thinking about it, it devolves down to utter irresponsibility.
No community, just virtual affinity groups you can dip in and out of.
No family, just quickly-dissolved zipless f***s and all the chemical and surgical erasures of progeny available.
No real experiences, just a panoply of ways to alter consciousness.
No morality, just empty virtue signals that require nothing more than a collection of slogans.
No personal growth except the accumulation of likes for artfully filtered cellphone pics taken on a closely-cropped set and displayed on an approved platform.
No intellectual wrestling with ideas and philosophy, just the appropriation of marketed content squeezed of every vestige of actual critical thought.
No knowledge of events and their consequences that hasn’t been massaged and predigested before being released in the same form as all digested sustenance, albeit polished & deodorized to perfection. Worse, an inculcated aversion to any raw or opposing perceptions that sends the recipients into catatonic fits of denial.
No artistic skills requiring practice, refinement and critique, just templates to fill, boxes to check and programed filters to apply. Sight and sound collages manipulated with predetermined programs, homage to 3rd-tier re-recreations, words arranged according to political dictates and consumed like unbuttered, unsalted popcorn to fill interior voids and looming stretches of time spent, by agreed diktat, under house arrest.
No property to maintain and eventually own as an asset or collateral, just a series of neutral rental spaces quickly decorated with featureless boxes and barely maintained, ranked by proximity to pricey public spaces and valued for shared amenities.
No God, just petty deities dispensing baubles in exchange for meaningless ritual at the level of a yoga class.
Perpetual children outsourcing their lives to virtual simulations that include those sitting in committee and making decisions for the rest.
If you reference the ways of our shared past, even just those of the past 30 years, the response is a dull boredom. a perfunctory condescension and, mostly, incomprehension.
This generation has no interest in anything more than a week in duration or related to anything except their own appetites and image.
The author is right: we will not recover. A majority have no concept of recovering, anyway. They are thrilled to turn their backs on all the past and march in concert into the abyss. They disregard the concept of a future.
Just think: it took until the 1200s for the secondary rulers (barons) to make a contract with the monarchs for a few rights and privileges.
In the next 400 years, there were finally some acknowledgements of the idea of rights for the common human being.
It took another 125 years to achieve the US Constitution and around double that time for the old feudal ways to reassert themselves.
I do wonder how long this incarnation of bondage will last?
I don’t think centrist gvmt is gonna cut it. You don’t beat this kind of extremism with that.
Red America is doing fine.
And CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, will say that the red states are all doomed for not following every COVId restriction .
Fixing #2 might be our salvation: a Trump News Network could do the job our founders intended. If it was scrupulously honest, and had its own media fact checkers, it would thrive.
Any President Trump would have 74 million plus virutally guaranteed viewers right out of the gate.
Maybe he could buy the dried bones of Fox for a song.
Third: the corruption of the judicial system.
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