Posted on 06/28/2014 9:02:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
No more paranoid delusions for me!
Jeb Bush in 2016.
Why did I not see this before?
> the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1964, another time of deep division and mutual suspicion. In that essay, he traced the roots of an American style that goes back at least to the late 19th century, when a plethora of mass movements kept finding new candidates for the source of all our troubles. It might be International Bankers one year and the gold standard the next as older scapegoats — Catholics, immigrants, Masons — gave way to new ones. Till they in turn were replaced by still others: munitions makers, Wall Street, foreign conspiracies that had infiltrated the very top levels of our own government ... you name it.
Oddly enough, this is a shill piece for Common Core, which pretends to be a shill piece for Jeb Bush. Thanks Kaslin.
Psychological protection!!!!
indeed. The useful idiot who is scammed in a ponzy scheme always insists there is no scheme involved, it is just a business...
Jeb Gore he is.
Here’s where the paranoid element of American society expresses itself:
- When it believes that there is “white privilege” allowing race to trump personality, character, and effort.
- When it believes that there is a “patriarchy” oppressing women at every turn, when women can only earn 77 cents on every dollar earned by a man, and when there’s a “war on women.”
- When you believe that there’s a political party dedicated to dirty air and water.
- When you believe that there’s a corporate effort to burn down the world using slow increases in carbon dioxide.
I could go on, but I’m already depressed. They’re the paranoids. And like most paranoids, they think they’re perfectly fine, and we’re the problem.
Where’s the “Barf Alert”?
And anyone who dares express opposition to it is arrested.
If one does there homework and checks the primary sources there is no shortage of examples of the elite class in the 20th century stating openly their desires and plans that are not merely coping mechanisms from any vantage point. Maybe the naive view with more onus to defend is the belief that the default or norm for America or any country being that the ruling classes are either reasonable or well-meaning or basically good and patriotic in a traditional sense. Perception is unfortunately not reality and Americans have a normalcy bias and vanity that is I think terminal for many.
Anyone cheerleading Communist Core has to be...well....communist.
Forrest Gump’s mama kept telling him that “stupid is as stupid does”. I agree with that, judge intelligence by actions and you will soon realize that some of the “smartest” people you will ever meet if you are going by “education” or IQ score will turn out to be as dumb as a dingbat. First rule, if you have voted for a Democrat for president in the past fifty years you are an idiot. I am not saying you should have voted Republican every time but you should NOT have voted Democrat in any presidential election in the past fifty years. If you voted for Obama twice you should have a keeper watching over you twenty four hours a day and you should not be allowed within fifty feet of a sharp object, even if you are a brain surgeon. If you won the triple crown, voting twice for Carter, twice for Clinton and twice for Obama you must have a head that rings like a cowbell.
The author writes as if Catholics, immigrants and Masons were only on the receiving end and are mutually exclusive. They're not.
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