Posted on 12/11/2018 7:33:48 PM PST by aquila48
“So I am at a little bit at a loss for understanding most of American leftists complaints. “
The purpose of The Left is to organize. (Organize is a synonym for socialism.) The most effective means of organizing is to organize against something. To do that they must generate anger and, that anger must be perpetual. This is why they didn’t stop at gay marriage or covering gay partners with corporate insurance policies or forcing bakers to work gay weddings. They must constantly push and shove their issue to keep the anger flowing. In anger there is organizing and in organization there is power. This is why, when they demand an apology and they get it, they then demand a resignation. It NEVER stops.
http://thepoliticsforums.com/threads/116974-Today-s-Toons-12-12-18
Scan down to the Terry C. Wise cartoon. It perfectly illustrates the Left. We’ll let you know what we’re angry about next when we figure it out.
“The lesson here is, before you give out goodies, make absolutely sure you can afford to do so FOREVER, because taking them back may cost you your neck.”
The politicians who initially gave out those goodies are long gone. Their necks are not on the line. They always arrange for the costs of the give away programs they set up to be paid by future generations of tax payers, after they are retired or dead, and can no long be held accountable. ‘Kick the can down the road.’ But eventually, the bill comes due....
They’re thinking “How many cars do we have to burn to get the taxes cut down some more?”
If these protest continue this weekend and are just as large and violent as last weekend I think that could cause Macron to resign. He put everything on the line with that speech and if that doesn’t solve it, he may have to go.
How often does it happen that in the same week the governmental leadership of the UK and France could fall. Throw in this gunman (another Alla AkBar killer) in the mix and it just makes the whole situation more toxic.
It is the neck of whoever has the audacity to take them back that’s on the line.
That’s a good answer. I was taught that when you argue about something (like, I want to return this item to the store) and the manager finally agrees to accept the return, you stop arguing and say thank you.
But I think it was Walter Williams who said some 20 years ago we should take back the word Liberal, because today’s left is anything but Liberal. Maybe we need to take back the word organize too. Because we need to organize if we are going to be heard. The grievances of the small cliques (like, I demand the right to use the woman’s bathroom) are incredibly small factions and very noisy distractions from the real issues that burden everyday Americans. I know, everyday Americans have everyday American issues they prefer to deal with - family, work etc - but it’s getting ridiculous and I am sure people are not happy being called racists, deplorables, ignorant, xenophobes just because of policy disagreements. And the ‘right’, which is just a label that doesn’t always fit (vast majorities want a both secure border and a humane, compassionate immigration policy) doesn’t do anywhere near the appropriate type and tenor of communicating its ideas.
I stand with Trump on immigration reform, on criminal justice reform, on lowering taxation (I think taxes on wages is immoral, we humans all have to work to support our selves and families and had to do so long before the invention of the coin, the creation of money instruments for commerce should not be a license to tax half of wages earned for labor every year). This is what I hope the protestors in France are coming around to - it wasn’t the gasoline tax per se, it is the hubris that government is so voracious and arbitrary in just deciding to snatch money anywhere, anytime for any reason it can think of). In the American Republic it wasn’t meant or designed to be this way. Time for an awakening.
Yes, I saw that video and it is that type of behavior that gives me empathy for the way some communities are treated.
I know, some communities are littered with drug dealers and killers. But within these communities are mostly law abiding people stuck in a bad spot. They demand police do something about crime - the poor prey on the poor. And what police do about it is the functional equivalent of tossing over a man in a wheelchair. They shake the whole community down trying to catch a couple of really bad guys, and in the meantime ensnare a whole bunch of people on very minor charges. As if that is any kind of effective policing on the most violent and dangerous people. That is why we have “black lives matter” type protests. It isn’t because of one man, the one man was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What straw will break the back of the great wide masses of America?
I appreciate that LE has a very hard job to do, and that they are doing the tasks assigned to them. My argument is not with them it is with those who create these policies. It does not escape notice that these are mostly all Democrat run communities, either. Using LE for revenue enhancement, though, is outrageous as it is to cite and shake down people for broken tail lights or a rolling stop etc. Again, this is just one shard of an iceberg of issues we need to address to restore a Free Republic.
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