Normally, I do not make an internal poll the lead item, but today, there are special circumstances.
Here are the results of the social harm poll.
And here are your comments.
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From Otis on June 19, 2010 at 8:26 am.
Neither ‘harm’ our society. The lack of education does. The right wing extremism that has been occurring as of late is nothing more that a normal political transition that sometimes happens, especially in a country that elects all of its leaders.
This poll reminds me of the idea of standing in front of Glenn Beck’s studio to protest. That is not going to make people stop watching Glenn Beck. If you want Glenn off the air, start protesting at your local stores, handing out flyers with a list of products not to buy because the support Glenn Beck. THAT protest would be more effective, faster.
Want the GOP to be reasonable and the Tea Party to go away? Educate their kids better.
If you kill a branch, you still have a tree. Kill the root, and you will soon only have a stump.
Lots of comments, huh? 😉
Both was the winner here, with GOP in second.
As much as I am tempted by Otis’ most interesting comment, and almost completely agree with him, I’ll stand by my vote, which is GOP. The Tea Party isn’t real. They are merely an extension of the GOP, funded and directed by them. Like any other vicious dog, they sometimes bite their master. However, since they trained their dog to be so vicious, the GOP did the greater harm.
Now, I’m not sure how, but Rachel Maddow must have heard about our poll and released the following story, intentionally timed to coincide with the publication of these results. 😉
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She agrees with me. Thank you Rachel. 😀
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Wow, how do manage such a flurry of comments?
And who is the smug jerk that would write such a comment?? Oh. Wait a minute. Right.
Well, I stand by my vote and statement. As tempting as it would be to place blame on whomever else, the fault still lies with the American Public for just plain not paying attention and/or being ignorant of what is going on around them. Better education = better politics, on both sides.
Save a country: Destroy ignorance.
Otis, I fully agree. My only point of departure is that the GOP is the sponsor of the Teabaggers,
While that may be true, the Dems have not been an effective stopping force, and this philosophy continues.
What the Republicans are doing is as capitalistic as it gets: Exploiting a weakness to your own ends.
What the Dems have done is just enough to be noticed, which is just poor organization. That makes them part of the problem, not part of the solution. “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” All I have seen from SOME Dems is good intentions. Some other Dems don’t even give me that much.
In this country, you do have to fight fire with fire. The Dems DO need exploit weaknesses to their own end. They need to bend the press that they DO have more in their favor. They need to be tireless in opposing the extremism. However, most of the Party has been placating and accommodating to this extremism. I blame them as much as the GOP OR the Tea Party. Until proven wrong, they remain the Jellyfish Jackasses to me.
The teabaggers are the conservative GOP on steroids.Neither one is any good for the country, and both reach out to the darker side of human nature. Both are very unhealthy because both are deluded, fanatical, and speak only fiction.Running with that crowd is like jogging through a quicksand bog.
Exactly.
Flying by to say hi Tom
Hi Monique. 🙂
I watched that interview with Sharron Angle yesterday – it was painful to get through. She was ‘misquoted, taken out of context, I didn’t mean that’ etc. And every time, (I forget his name) was like – ‘let’s go to the tape’. It was pee your pants funny seeing her trying to wiggle out of it. It was one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen – she was a disaster.
That was a great vid from Rachael – especially the part where he says ‘they don’t even know what they are pissed about’. I’ve been saying that for a year.
And just for the record, Otis is a smug asshole. 🙂
Oh? Do you know him? 😉
I have no idea who he is. Oh, wait, I’m married to the smug jerk.
Lisa, I just didn’t have the time or the heart to watch it. It must have been hilarious.
Tom, I’ve been away from here far too long (due to a huge onslaught of work) and missed this poll. But Otis’s comment resonates deeply with me–reminding me of the scripture that says “he who sows to the wind will reap the whirlwind.”
What we’re dealing with is the result of decades of negligence: parents and leaders who ignored their duty to instill a sense of moral and ethical responsibility in their children. As a result, the idiocy that plagues us now has turned “the American dream” and all it represents–freedom, security, prosperity, etc.–into a nightmare of “I’ve-got-mine-you-get-your-own.” Now we’ve got a nation of politically, morally, and ethically underdeveloped adolescents run amok, drunk on their own Kool-Aid and bullying everyone who disagrees with them. The cycle’s in full spin, and the whirlwind is relentless.
We won’t break the cycle as it is. And I fear it may be with most of us the rest of our lifetimes. But we can leave the world a better place by instilling true values in our young people. God forbid they should be burdened with this, too.
Of course, this will require us to toss off our ever-so-convenient “political correctness” shawls and teach our children to see and call injustice, self-service, and unpatriotic behavior for what it is. The reason why we’re drowning in wrongdoing is because preceding generations (and I belong to them) were too lazy and indecisive to stand up passionately and with true conviction for what’s right.
Welcome back, SF. I fully agree. It seems that we have wasted a generation of the altar of brainless theocratic corporatocracy that has undermined Christian and secular values alike.
The results (stats) are in. It’s the GOP that has harmed America with its economic policies. Having raised the debt from 1 trillion to 12 trillion in less than 30 years, America will struggle with that, for decades.
Tom, we can wecover from the debt. It is currently a lower percentage of our GDP that it was during WWII. The problem is that our entire economy is misaligned through the subsidy of economic activity without value that served only to transfer wealth from the poor and middle classes to the rich, while allowing economic activity with value, such as manufacturing and infrastructure maintenance and improvement, to die on the vine.
The GOP and the Tea Party almost remind me of the good cop/bad cop routine. I say almost because the GOP ain’t got no good.
How about the evil cop and the insane cop?
Have we reached the point of no return, where decades of increasingly sub-par educational standards have created a couple of generations of functional illiterates, and where now they will just have their own children who will intern be functional illiterates, ripe for the picking from whatever asshat out there tells them they are special, they are Americans, they are number one, they are the best in the world at everything, rather than try to teach them to read?
That’s a good question Bee. Working at a community college computer lab, I found myself teaching recent HS grads to read.
There was no selection for “inbreeding,” which is the origin of both the Klanbaggers and the Rushpubliscums.
There’s a difference? 😉
I completely agree that the republicans and Tea Baggers are the same uneducated mutated creature with at most a split personality, one being selfish, deceitful and mean and the other delusional and psychotic.
And, more often that not, both being selfish, deceitful, mean, delusional and psychotic.