I, ALONE KNOW THE TRUTH OF POLITICS !!

[Flint]

BEHOLD MY LONG-WINDED DIATRIBES AND TAKE UPON THINE SELF A MEASURE OF MY SUPERIOR WISDOM.

I will impregnate your ignorant eye sockets with a red-hot injection of my truth-sauce.



*using old-style Bible grammar is shorthand for being irrefutably correct

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Flint

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I will impregnate your ignorant eye sockets with a red-hot injection of my truth-sauce.

I feel somehow soiled for having read that

[Flint]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I feel somehow soiled for having read that

You read it right, baby. You read it so good . . .

[henry quirk]

Here's the truth of politics...

It's a big stick.

It's a psycho-assault.

It's reducing 'one' to piece and part of 'many'.

Politics is the grindstone that makes feedstock of you and me and him and her.

It's friggin' tyranny dressed up in fine clothes.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Well duh, E pluribus unum dude.
Out of many, one.
That's been the idea from the get go.

[tw]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

Here's the truth of politics...

It's a big stick. ...

It's what attracts the many who discover they can easily manipulate others. Then want a bigger sandbox.

[henry quirk]

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Flint

BEHOLD MY LONG-WINDED DIATRIBES AND TAKE UPON THINE SELF A MEASURE OF MY SUPERIOR WISDOM.

I will impregnate your ignorant eye sockets with a red-hot injection of my truth-sauce.



*using old-style Bible grammar is shorthand for being irrefutably correct

[tw]

Obvious is an anti-American on the highway. Every other person on that road is a member of your team. Good teammates work together.

An anti-America is a football player who only runs when he has the ball and wastes no energy blocking for others.

The anti-American is a fool weaving in and out of traffic to beat everyone else - especially at the expense of other's safety. He views his teammates as enemies. He is only out for himself. Non serviam.

Ironic are the few who admire that anti-American. And then call themselves patriotic.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Driving is a sport, not a team sport but it is a competition.

[henry quirk]

"The anti-American is a fool weaving in and out of traffic to beat everyone else - especially at the expense of other's safety. He views his teammates as enemies. He is only out for himself. Non serviam."

No, that's just a friggin' idiot.

Now, me, the advocate of non serviam, I stay within the speed limit, signal my turns, allow others to merge, never give in to road anger.

Why?

Not cuz I'm a team player, not cuz I give a flip about the other drivers. No, I drive moderately, safely, cuz I give a flip about 'me', cuz I know self-control on the road (and in living) minimizes my cost and maximizes my benefit over the long haul.

The fellow you describe above is just a bundle of appetites and impulses. He has no self-regulation. He's the sort who makes burdensome 'law' a neccessity.

He's one of your friggin' 'extremists'.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

Now, me, the advocate of non serviam, I stay within the speed limit, signal my turns, allow others to merge, never give in to road anger.

Oh, so you're the guy holding up traffic.

[henry quirk]

HA!

[tw]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

No, that's just a friggin' idiot.

Of course that is an idiot. He is not a team player. He is no different that four dozen extremists on Congress who only want destruction of government. And are loved by many in their district who are also not team players - so view others on their team as the enemy.

I stay within the speed limit, signal my turns, allow others to merge, never give in to road anger.

Then you are a team player working first and foremost for the safety, protection, and cooperation of all else on your team.

Another who is:

bundle of appetites and impulses. He has no self-regulation. He's the sort who makes burdensome 'law' a neccessity.

is the classic adult who is still a child. He is not logical. He only understands what he must do for emotional reasons and self-gratification. If he violated what a parental government and policeman says, then he will be punished. A child only understands that emotion. Not why he must be a team player on the road.

Kitty Genovese was attacked on a Brooklyn street. She cried for help for almost 40 minutes. So many adults who were still children (who could not think logically) did nothing. Some even said why. They feared (like children) getting involved.

Plenty of idiots exist. More interesting is why they are idiots.

Adults who are still children are the easiest to manipulate - to be made into extremists. Need examples? View who Daesch recruits.

[xoxoxoBruce]

If he violated what a parental government and policeman says, then he will be punished. A child only understands that emotion.

WTF are you talking about, that's not an emotion, that's a lesson learned about consequences. Thats a good thing for anyone, so they can make a rational decision about whether to obey or not.