Posted on 04/07/2015 5:18:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Humans are extremely adaptable creatures; so we tend to quickly acclimate ourselves to our circumstances until they become the "new normal." However, sometimes when you have a hole in the bottom of your boat, it's a better idea to try to address it than to just keep bailing water all day long. For example, here in America we seem to believe that...
1) The only religion it's okay to mock is the most popular one, Christianity: Roughly 80% of Americans are Christian; yet which religion is openly mocked by Hollywood and the mainstream media? Is it Judaism? No, that would be anti-Semitic. Is it Islam? No, those guys might kill you. Is it Hinduism or Buddhism? No, there aren’t enough of them around to draw notice. Ninety five percent of the attacks on religion in America are against the faith held by the majority of the people who sadly are a little too inclined to turn the other cheek to put a stop to it. All major religions deserve to be treated with a modicum of respect and that’s doubly true for Christianity since this nation was founded and shaped by Christians seeking religious freedom. If Christians don’t demand respect, no one should be surprised when they don’t get it.
2) Diversity is all about skin color: A lot of people would tell you that Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson Lee, John Kerry, Dan Savage and Luis Gutierrez all together would be a “diverse” group. Well, what’s so diverse about five people who say the same things, think the same things and march in lockstep on every issue? The only real value of diversity is that it interjects new ways of thinking about and approaching a problem. If you take that away, diversity is meaningless and may even do more harm than good. If you don’t have diversity of thought, then you don’t have diversity.
3) The federal government doesn't have to pay off the money it owes: Ever notice that as our national debt grows larger and larger, people talk about it less and less? That’s despite the fact that by “2030, the Congressional Budget Office is estimating that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will make up 75% of our budget spending.” You may notice that defense spending isn’t included in there, nor is interest on the debt, Obamacare or any other government programs. We’re only 15 years away from that point and neither party is doing ANYTHING of significance about it. Worse yet, the Democrats are insisting that we’re not spending enough money. People may give lip service to the idea that the debt is bad, but if we’re judged by our actions, most Americans apparently believe that we don’t ever have to pay off what we owe.
4) Ethics are irrelevant for politicians: There was a time in America when politicians were held to a HIGHER standard of ethics than the average person. If you were a scumbag, people didn’t want you in office and if they caught you telling them a lie, it could cost a politician his job. Since the Clinton era, we’ve reversed that idea and suddenly scumbags are fine and we don’t care if politicians lie or not. When one of them misleads the public, the attitude is, “Well, what do you expect from a politician?” Incidentally, Republicans may not have as fully embraced this attitude as Democrats, but there are an awful lot of GOP politicians who seem to believe it’s acceptable to lie to the people that put them into office. If holding the politicians -- who are expected to lead us and make life and death decisions -- to a higher standard is wrong, then Americans shouldn’t want to be right.
5) It's fine for black Americans to be openly racist toward whites: Given America’s history, it’s rather ironic that the overwhelming majority of white Americans seem to want Martin Luther King’s colorblind world while a large number of black Americans actively support Bull Connor’s view that discrimination based on race works fine. Similarly, for every dumb jock in a fraternity who makes national news for dropping the N-word, there are probably a hundred black Americans openly expressing contempt and loathing for white Americans. Not every black American feels that way; in fact a majority of them probably don’t, but the biggest bastion of race-based hate in America is unquestionably in the black community.
Wind farms has to be number 6.
It’s terrible that in the course of American history, whites went from being benevolent landowners with an end game to cowering corporate drones injecting money into a corrupt, redistributive system for the benefit of those who want to procreate without consequence and commit criminal acts without conscience.
Ours is truly an upside-down world.
“The 5 dumbest ideas that have taken root in America”
Just looking at the headline before reading the story, I concluded that most of them were liberal inspired. Close to true in reality.
Then Common Core
Number one should be voting for Hope and Change.
That transsexuals aren’t mentally ill.
#7 calling a sporting rifle an “assault weapon”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3276515/posts
Number 6: Voting Still Matters.
If you want to be depressed, type "socialism" into google and the first thing that pops up is a graphic that says "Socialism: the radical idea of sharing" Makes me want to puke.
The real bad news is that socialism doesn't exist without a bit of fascism at the top to keep order. Check out the Wikipedia entry on fascism. Once you get past all the slanted {expletive} at the beginning, skip down to section 4, Tenets. Read those and just try to tell me the "progressive left" isn't using every single one of those. The "left" have become fascists.
That somehow tolerating every divergent viewpoint, lifestyle, and idea makes us stronger and unites us.
That our rights derive from government.
That there is no such thing as transcendent right and wrong.
That a collective of morally flawed people will be more perfect than the morally flawed individuals that make it up.
And, most of us turning a blind eye towards what is really happening in the world. We are belly-aching about material things and lack of all comforts we should have regardless of if we are rich or poor all the while ISIS is training in mind and body in the roughest terrain there is! We are in turn eating popcorn and unhealthy foods sitting in front of the TV and/or watching the latest movie, etc.
Without change soon, we’ll be a slaughterhouse like the countries they are preying on heavily now.
#6 Tax policy has no effect on individual behavior. We can tax earners as much as we want and the revenue potential is unlimited.
6. Anchor babies are automatic US citizens.
7. Fiat currency.
8. Social Security is "insurance."
9. Muslims can be integrated into American society and participants in the social contract that is the Constitution.
10. Public employee unions with tenure for school teachers.
Don’t forget affffitmative action.
The notion that everyone should own a house.
The federal government in every aspect of our lives.
No more checks and balances.
Redistribution of wealth
Property taxes
The Sixteenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment
IRS
UN
PBS
DOE
DoED
LBJ
BJC
JEC
BHO
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