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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,157 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 05:03 PM Jan 2013

Yes, from time to time, the government sometimes does things that bother me.

But the people who rail against the government as evil and demand to be armed to the teeth in the interests of "revolution"?

Those people scare me.

And that is a far greater threat to me than any annoyance or bother.

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Yes, from time to time, the government sometimes does things that bother me. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2013 OP
People who refuse to accept their civic responsibilities to be honestly informed and engaged with patrice Jan 2013 #1

patrice

(47,992 posts)
1. People who refuse to accept their civic responsibilities to be honestly informed and engaged with
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 05:28 PM
Jan 2013

ALL others, not just those they agree with, in active involvement with our government at all times, should not be equated with those of us who do and the media should stop reinforcing their infantile violent gratifications by giving them the PRIVILEGE of bigger voice than they have actually earned.

It bothers me too, when a bunch of people require that the rest of us read their minds perfectly, whether there is any justification for that effort or not, and then they blame everyone else for what is wrong and they assume the ultimate privilege of threatening everyone with gun violence, unless they get their way, WHATEVER that is and regardless of what the rest of us have more or less effectively decided about us for us through our, admittedly not so perfect, government. At least the rest of us are making an effort to get together and figure things out; others sit on the sidelines, gratify themselves on our "sugar tit" culture, and threaten us with civil war and other forms of violence if we don't do it their way, even though they do nothing else to bring about solutions of any kind and in fact even work actively against any solutions that present themselves.

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