Posted on 08/11/2014 9:47:39 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Some fascinating and thoughtful comments on the Andrew W.K. thread from readers who point out that Andrew W.K.s advice to his letter-writer telling him to get over himself and tolerate his annoying right-wing father does not consider that there are cases in which elderly parents and other family members are simply impossible to be around, because they will not shut up about politics, and are confrontational. Call it Fox Geezer Syndrome. Heres a sampling of what readers said on that thread.
Stef:
Love doesnt conquer all. If the father is like a lot of people 65-80 today, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or something equivalent is on in the background practically every waking hour. The programming is specifically designed to agitate the emotions, scare older people, promote mis-representation.
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I will phart in his general direction, repeatedly.
HUH?? Hello?? What??
Sounds like a seminar narrative. What is your opinion?
Scare older people eh?
Like telling them they’re going to eat dog food if you elect a Republican?
Or they’ll take your social security away if you elect a Republican?
You mean like that? What comes out every election cycle over and over for the last 40+ years and yet somehow never happens.
Lying a-holes.
the only real Fox Geezer syndrome I’ve noticed is all the old men watching the Fox “eye candy” female news readers on the Boob Toob
:)
(otherwise known as FoxWTF - Fox Wishful Thinking Fuddydum)
HEY YOU RATS! GET OFF MY LAWN!
“Andrew W.K.s advice to his letter-writer telling him to get over himself and tolerate his annoying right-wing father ”
Or maybe he could just move out of his dad’s basement.
I used to like Rod Dreher...Why is American Conservative publisjing this drek?
If anything, I’ve found it’s libs that can’t keep their opinions to themselves at any one time.
They’re constantly voicing how emotional they are about “random lib issue” and want to know how you feel about “random lib issue”, as if logic doesn’t enter into it.
Beginning to formulate a theory that a higher percentage of liberals are manic/depressive...
Who has ever heard of this idiot?
get off my lawn
Loved that movie !
Us (people 65+) are completely devastated with todays society simply because we lived through the good America that once was and clearly see demise of morality, freedoms, responsibility for one’s own actions, racial favoritism, the hatred of any law or rule that is actually enforced, crime out of control, and worse yet a congress and presidency that represents and promotes socialism.
The day you could leave the house unlocked is far past us for laws are only enforced based upon race, gender, physiological factors, or just plain politics.
Hell yes, us geezers are consumed with the politics of today because we once were free and the new generation has no conception of that freedom we once had. It’s the “boiling frog” syndrome all over again.
p.s. The sister of my liberal step-daughter has a conservative father-in-law who freely talks politics in front of anybody including my liberal step-daughter. She complained about it my wife and me one time. We just looked at each other later and laughed. My lib step-daughter has no right to talk. She's a huge hypocrite in that matter.
The problem is the way people argue. They do not discuss. They don’t debate. They don’t “ground” the conversations, meaning a acknowledgement of “love the sinner, hate the sin.” We have been conditioned to “fight.”
Politics is a stupid thing to discuss with people you love.
Rod Dreher is about as “conservative” as David Brooks or Susan Collins.
Liberals don’t see their political diatribes as “politics”. They see them as “just the way things are”. When it comes to “gay marriage”, there can only be agreement. Agreement is just the way things are. If you disagree with them, it is right-wing Hate politics.
Their biggest problem is that they don’t really understand why they believe what they believe. That’s why they never defend their position. Their responses are always things like “That’s not true” or “You’ve been watching Fox News” or “That’s so mean-spirited”. They never can substantiate their belief. It’s too much trouble.
if you want to silence a liberal, don’t disagree with them. Just keep pushing them for data to support their belief.
Unfortunately this “Old Phart” has just come to know that the wisdom of we fogies is discovered as we have aged and come to understand (as a small minority of the worlds population) THAT****** WE KNOW WHAT WE DON”T KNOW.!!!!
The higher percentage of manic/depressive liberals and others... ******) DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY DON’T KNOW***!
Amen...
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