Posted on 06/26/2014 6:22:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Everyone is a drama queen in their own way. Playing a victim card is easy, that's why its easy. To not be that way takes virtues which a debased and degenerate society does not have.
We'ev stopped seeing the moral quotient as essential to economic and societal success.
Here’s the problem — even if most Americans don’t fall for it, it doesn’t matter.
They continue to vote for people in Washington who will use this as basis for MORE WELFARE, MORE TAXES, MORE REGULATION and MORE COERCION.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
I’m afraid most voters are NOT vigilant at all.
B I N G O!
We have a completely shallow and unprofessional mob of ‘journalists’ who encourage this kind of thing.
They have forgotten how to BE journalists (i.e. RIGOROUS, UNBIASED. OBJECTIVE)
Although everyone else on the planet has caught on to the scam, Americans are helping to keep those African email scams alive. Low information types.
The Just-Us Bruthas, Jesse and Al, have made a lucrative living off this kind of thing. I never believed this KFC story from the get-go. Nothing about it even remotely rang true.
Why does America keep falling for political con artists?
There is another consequence, whether intended or not: many of us will no longer believe any “victim” story because too many have cried wolf too often. Then, when the actual victim of an actual misfeasance occurs and we turn away because of all the false alarms before, we will be attacked as the cruel and uncaring, which we are always being accused of anyway.
Actually ... it wouldn’t be politically correct to tell that little girl to leave. So that’s how we know it wasn’t true and never happened ... :-) ...
When I read a story about the black college student with kkk and racial graffiti with a noose on the door,the lesbian who is attacked in her home alone tied up with dyke scrawled on her forehead, or the muslim who has who is cornered by anonymous white guys with no witnesses and told to leave America or else, and even the homosexual waiter with fag written the the receipt I have one simple rule - What a cute PC sympathy fantasy story to gain attention & donations!
The most recent Gallup Trust poll (there was a thread on it a few days ago) had “big business” as being in the bottom five (along with Congress and the Press) when it comes to trustworthiness.
Con artists know this, know that the gut reaction of the public is going to be to believe the little guy over the big corporation.
But it’s also a reinforcing feedback loop, in that stories like this are accepted as truth (even after being discredited) and serve to further erode trust ...
Dewey's educational theories were presented in My Pedagogic Creed (1897), The School and Society (1900), The Child and the Curriculum (1902), Democracy and Education (1916) and Experience and Education (1938). Throughout these writings, several recurrent themes ring true; Dewey continually argues that education and learning are social and interactive processes, and thus the school itself is a social institution through which social reform can and should take place... (Wikipedia)
it has worked beautifully... people are under the impression that we have public education... we do not... it is government education and has been for a long time... the public, local citizen have no say in their children's education... and it baffles me that conservatives hand their children over to the government day after day, year after year...
an excellent but very heavy book on the subject: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto...
mis dos centavos...
So.. the most accomplished and successful CON is the best choice!
That is their view and that is why we get creeps like “O” and the Clintons in the WH.
Just more “Slouching Toward Gomorrah”.
To be honest, a lot of people here fell for it.
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Chortle!
Well said.
I am happy to say I never fall for these anymore. Every sob story that comes down the pike, I think, “Mm hmm.”
Because the stories are just so fun to share on Facebook! Then read all the witty replies..
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