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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLets get rid of a few bits of dreck, for the sake of mental hygiene:
http://americannewsx.com/politics/scathing-rebuke-political-illiterates-beautiful/This Scathing Rebuke Of Political Illiterates Is Beautiful
March 10, 2017 Guest Blogger Op/Ed, Politics 0
This epistle is by Kit Thornton:
Lets get rid of a few bits of dreck, for the sake of mental hygiene:
1) Women dont answer to you, or to the government for having sex, and being forced to have a child is not a fit punishment for what you perceive as promiscuity. Leave other peoples genitals alone.
2) If you are using phrases like Confronting the culture to advance Gods kingdom, youre the American Taliban, a threat to the Republic, and a disgrace to Christianity. I am not only disinterested in your blather, I consider you a serious threat to a well-ordered, peaceful society. If you are pushing this nonsense onto children, you are a moral leper.
3) At this point in the debate, if you cant cite SEVERAL peer-reviewed articles in legitimate scientific journals Im not interested in your contrarian opinion about climate change. The science is as in as science ever is catastrophic climate change is happening, were causing it, and its going to be a very serious problem, even if we do something about it. What were talking about now is whether its going to be catastrophic or apocalyptic. Go flatten your Earth or something.
4) Donald Trump is a dangerous, egomaniacal idiot, and his appointees range from incompetent to terrifying. If you are still supporting him at this point, you are no friend of the Republic.
5) It simply isnt possible to cut taxes, increase spending and decrease the debt or restrain the deficit. This should be obvious to anyone who can handle simple addition and subtraction, but somehow the idea that slashing government revenues will lead to explosive economic growth WILL. NOT. DIE. Mostly because it casts a vaguely intellectual veneer over what is actually sheer selfishness.
6) Private charities are not sufficient to help the poor. If you think they are, look at any place on this planet that does not provide sufficient public assistance. There was a time when we believed that the proper way of helping the poor was private charity and religious works read Dickens for a tour of that golden age.
7) Censorship is the refuge of the intellectually and culturally inferior. Only the weak fear being exposed to material they disapprove of. And claiming your prudishness and fragility is for the sake of the children is contemptible. Hiding behind kids because you cant cope with modern life is despicable.
8) Again, and finally, leave other peoples genitals alone. Other peoples sex lives are none of your concern, and you dont get to treat them like second-class citizens because you are uncomfortable. News flash other people arent in the world to see to your comfort. If you cant cope, if you cant deal with people who are different from you, dont blame others for your inability to adult.
9) The only reason we dont have a functioning health-care system is that unlike every other advanced nation we believe in the right of rich douchebags to charge as much as, and more than, the market will bear. We believe in allowing insurance companies to build huge, bloated empires at the expense of the sick and desperate. And we believe that some people (namely, rich people) are more deserving of health care than others. Its just plain, unvarnished, smells-like-what-it-is greed.
Kit Thornton's blog:
http://kitthornton.blogspot.com/
winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)Thank you very much Kit Thornton. Clarity of thought is a beautiful thing, and desperately needed in these troubled times.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)brer cat
(24,525 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,594 posts)byronius
(7,391 posts)Ligyron
(7,617 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)dchill
(38,451 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)Tears these maniacs actions apart point by point. I may print this out.
FakeNoose
(32,597 posts)Each of these 9 topics can be expanded, but I like the conciseness of this list.
Thanks for sharing it - made my day.
PatSeg
(47,283 posts)Thank you for posting.
Hekate
(90,564 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Reading this was cathartic and a great start to the day. Thank you for posting this amazingly delicious list of truth!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)She just got another new fan!
Oh....He just got another new fan!
calimary
(81,127 posts)The Blunt Truth. A long list of inconvenient truths. Lays it out and pulls no punches.
Another old cliche proven out, once again: truth hurts.
mgardener
(1,812 posts)Why can't all our citizens have access to affordable healthcare?
Botany
(70,449 posts).... a deity and tell other people on how to live their lives. Freedom of religion also means
freedom from religion too.
BTW you guys can stop w/all your the correct bathroom crap too.
Old Terp
(464 posts)you are required to care for the earth and all of her creatures. You must love your neighbor as yourself, you care for the poor, feed the hungry, tend the sick, welcome the stranger, and so forth. This is not the literal, but the basic statements. From the Constitution, look just at the Preamble: that's a very socialistic goals for a country.
Botany
(70,449 posts)bluescribbler
(2,113 posts)K&R
agincourt
(1,996 posts)The whole website, AmericanNewsX is very good as well.`
zentrum
(9,865 posts)blue sky at night
(3,242 posts)that all of the fucking asshole idiots that need to read this excellent piece will N E V E R E V E R see it, hear it, read it, understand it or in any way shape or form pay attention to these words of T H E T R U T H! They can't handle the T R U T H!