America as a Battered Woman.

The Laissez Faire City Times ^ | March 1, 1999. | Mr. Robert L. Kocher.

[f.Christian]

"Sadistic oppositional defiance"...sounds French to me!

[Don Myers]

bttt

[meenie]

If you think it is bad now, wait until this dysfuntional, illiterate group going through school now reach the age of maturity and start taking the reins of power.

[Billy_bob_bob]

This is a fantastic article, and everyone here should read every word of this well presented article. Really good stuff. Thanks for posting this!

[Restorer]

It’s an ongoing morality play that goes on week after week before angry crowds who are enraged because the bad guys never admit what they are doing and never get caught, even though it’s obvious to the infuriated crowd.

Right on target article, with this exception:

It wasn't just the press. Throughout the Clinton debacle, he really was supported by a majority of the people of this country.

Misled people, certainly, many of them. Never really given a clear exposition, by the media, of the issues at stake.

Still, as the author points out, any semi-intelligent person could see exactly what Clinton was, and for whatever reason, most Americans really did choose to close their eyes to it. Indeed, there are none so blind as those who choose not to see.

TG we have a more ethical person in the White House today!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[He Rides A White Horse]

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[Free the USA]

FYI

[f.Christian]

the... article---and... more-better!

The material--link was from Mortimer Snavely---thanks MS!

[Don Myers]

I don't even want to see it.

[stlrocket]

Kinda Like This?

BATTERED RATIO

[AZLiberty]

If you think it is bad now, wait until this dysfunctional, illiterate group going through school now reach the age of maturity and start taking the reins of power.

They've already taken the reins of education. The current generation of teachers has faced this crap their entire lives. It's scary.

[rj45mis]

It pretty much spells out what many of us already know. The sad truth is that the people in this country will once again turn their hearts from the truth if their 401(k)'s are swelling. And they will elect another pathetic scoundrel to lead a once great country.

[serinde]

The problem with today’s problems is that the problems are not the problems. The problems are the consequence of the real problem. If one looks closely, most of the problems facing today’s society are the secondary consequence of twisted oppositional defiant arguments rationalizing and imposing support for irrationality and destructiveness.

...reality-based reason became vilified while oppositional-defiant intellectuals were given credibility and license to employ twisted logic to impose twisted solutions that made initial problems much worse.

No wonder "throwing money at the problem" never seems to work, yet is always the recommended solution.

Now, how about another article with solutions to the true problem? Are there solutions, or are we too late?

[waxhaw]

Rabbi Daniel Lapin has written an excellent book on what is happening to America. It is called "America's Real War" and I would recommend it to all Freepers... indeed, to all true Americans. I'm currently going through it for the second time.

[Anamensis]

If you think it is bad now, wait until this dysfuntional, illiterate group going through school now reach the age of maturity and start taking the reins of power.

It's gonna be great! I've taught some of these kids and they are as conservative and reactionary as you could dream. They are sick and f***ing tired of having white guilt and their responsibility to pander to everyone's feelings shoved in their faces everytime they turn around. They are suspicious of their raving liberal professors and don't want to hear one more word about how wonderful the 60s were. A lot of them joined the military on Sept 12. There is hope.

[JoeSchem]

This is why America is doomed and a 2% tax cut isn't going to change things. It's time for the Red States and the Blue States to go their separate ways.

[listenhillary]

Good read bump

[Fish out of Water]

Good article

[f.Christian]

Pulling it all together, what we have right here in our own country are all of the ingredients necessary for a totalitarian police state. We have a federal government that nobody in his right mind would trust, which lies to us incessantly, uses illegal force against its citizens with impunity, and collaborates with totalitarian dictators under cover of a massive propaganda campaign conducted by our supposedly free press. Our major information media are dominated by closet totalitarians who pay lip service to democracy while covertly promoting the interests of communist despots. The political opposition is made up largely of cowards who are so intimidated by our totalitarian propaganda media they are unable to offer effective resistance to even the most egregious violations of civil liberties by the corrupt Clinton regime. They have become, in the fullest sense of the term, Weimar Republicans. And finally, we have that which makes it all possible, a listless, docile, dumbed-down public who gape mindlessly at all of the above phenomena without the slightest glimmer of comprehension, and prattle the latest propaganda cliches dumped into their empty heads by the mainstream media.

The Elian affair has truly given us a glimpse into the abyss of tyranny. The message that comes through loud and clear is that the system isn't working. The question that remains to be answered is whether we still possess the intelligence and fortitude necessary to fix it.

Edward Zehr can not be reached at ezehr@capaccess.org...

Published in the May. 22, 2000 issue of The Washington Weekly

Copyright 2000 The Washington Weekly.

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