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In reply to the discussion: I felt sad this evening [View all]The Roux Comes First
(1,297 posts)This is the sausage you get, as far as I can tell. And probably food poisoning to boot.
The winners, often classically greedy heartless bastards, get libraries, honorary degrees, astonishing speaking fees for spewing fetid stuff, and licked boots, if not orifices. The losers, often more victimized by nurture (lack) than nature, are villainized as takers and parasites, when we here well know where the human parasites are truly concentrated.
I have the sense that we are within the confidence limits of a tipping point for failure of our system of government. If we ever had a basis for feeling exceptional as a nation, that was increasingly questionable beginning with the shameful raygun regime and is almost entirely disproven by events since 2000.
With the sole "exceptions" that we have more resources for killing humans and outsourcing those resources to other nations determined that dealing death is one of their primary goals than any other nation on earth.
Glorious.
Yet this would undoubtedly be considered America-bashing!