Posted on 04/05/2016 5:20:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Is Michael Barone really a clueless Delta Bravo ?
There is some truth to this. I have known relatives who have graduated with fairly good majors who could not find jobs locally, but would not move away from “home” and mommy and daddy to where jobs they had prepared for were in demand.
You can spot the bias of their surroundings when journalists write about college grads. What they see in their world are liberal arts majors. Engineering, management, computer science, logistics, and medical don’t get seen, so don’t get considered.
DC has always been a cesspool; now more than ever.
One other point — let Barone write a column about the combined effects of family disintegration, refusal to relocate, drug addiction, anger, and abuse of government benefits - but describing blacks - and wait for his media buddies to howl in outrage.
Essay contest :
Are Hillary and Bernie voters really victims?
Are BLM and CAIR members really victims?
Answer in 10 words or less...
From the novel David Copperfield, by Dickens. Agnes Wickfield was the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mr. Wickfield, a lawyer. His clerk, the utterly loathesome Uriah Heep, inveigled himself into the alcoholic Mr. Wickfield's confidence and gradually gained control over him, always entertaining the thought that he would marry Agnes. Of course this was anathema to David Copperfield, who looked upon Agnes as his "dear sister," and couldn't abide the thought of the dear creature in the embrace of someone he looked upon with such disgust. Unbeknownst to David, Agnes is head-over-heels in love with him, but in the true spirit of Victorian self-abnegation, doesn't make her feelings known. Not until David has foolishly married a useless bimbo, who conveniently dies, and Uriah Heep has been consigned to prison, does David realize that he has loved her all along. In the end David and Agnes get married and have lots and lots of children, which is the Victorian way of saying that they made the two-backed beast a whole bunch of times.
So, to get to the point, "Agnes Heep," is like a sardonic "what if Uriah had prevailed?"
If you haven't read the book and this makes you want to download a copy and peruse it, so much the better! It's a fantastic novel. The part where David professes his love for Agnes will make you cry.
If they wanted that, they'd be conservatives and/or libertarians. What they truly want is government doing things for them, rather than other people whom they believe don't merit it, or warrant it. Kind of like the slogan "Better Police for a Better Police State."
Speak for yourself. I am victim of none of those.
Yeah you are. You live with their trade agreements? Immigration policy? Fiscal policy? Healthcare?
Well, maybe not if you live in Norway.
Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
Trump is the most conservative candidate... He is self funding.. and he has demonstrated he is capable of creating jobs. Trump also has the greatest respect for the Constitution... Trump does not require an exemption to hold the office of president. I could fill up page after page after page with examples of how Trump is the only conservative.. Making American Great 'AGAIN' is pure conservatism.
Calling oneself a 'conservative' does not make one conservative... Talk is cheap, actions tell the history.
Now that is a sentiment I can agree with.
Just an observation: The “victim schtick” is about enriching the leaders in the Grievance Industry - think of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Historically, Republicans have not wanted to wallow in self-pity, to seek government-approved remedies for life’s challenges, or to support those who get rich or powerful off of stirring up animus amongst the individualists that make up the USA. This election may portend a new type of voter who wants to be rescued more than he wants to be free.
Of course I live with them. I am not a victim of them. Victim mentality is a mind set, not physical chains.
Vote Trump.
Pretty pathetic reasoning from Michael Barone. Townhall is slipping into NR territory.
And then there is the fact that many of the jobs that do exist are done by legal and illegal immigrants, who get preference for welfare and affirmative action for themselves and children over the unemployed citizens whose jobs they took.
No sir, we are not abandoning our towns nor our way of life. We can rebuild right here.
However, the first task is to stop the mercenaries in dc from stealing our money and enriching their friends at our expense.
Just curious, and yes, I’ve read the Dickens classic.
My Christian surname is the same as Uriah’s (my college nickname was “Uriah”).
We are certainly victims of the GOP and their lobbyist run party who would love to throw out all our votes.
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