The November Elections: A Parable

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

A couple are driving to the beach. They come to a fork in the road. The husband (driving) says the way to the beach is one way. The wife says it's the other way. Husband points out that his choice is a larger and more traveled road, and thus obviously correct. Wife says husband is looking at the map upside down. Husband dismisses wife as loony and unrealistic.

They drive along for hours. The terrain is becoming decidedly un-beachy. Wife keeps insisting that they took the wrong turn, citing more and more evidence as they come to it. (Like signs saying they are heading for Pittsburgh.) Husband responds with non-sequiteurs, like "I've only been driving for two hours. Did you expect us to reach the beach by magic? You have no concept of driving."

Despite the obviousness of the situation, husband begins insisting that their seeming detour to Pittsburgh is an illusion and actually part of a clever short-cut that wife is too dense to understand.

Eventually they pass the "Welcome to Pittsburgh" sign.

Husband explodes at wife: "You never believed in me. You wanted me to get lost. Your constant back-seat driving made it impossible for me to drive properly. Nobody could read a map while being undermined at every turn by an ingrate like you."


A parable offered for anyone in the media or corridors of power currently scrambling to blame discontented liberals for the coming November elections.

[Edweird]

1. Yes, that's it exactly. Not the speed, but the direction. K&R

[griffi94]

2. did the husband also tell the wife

that getting to the beach was never realistic anyway, and that pittsburgh was better than nothing.

[NJmaverick]

3. Yeah no point in blaming the people who have done everything possible

to undermine the Democratic party for the damage they caused.:eyes:

unrec for a complete failure to take responsibility for one's own actions

[Edweird]

4. "failure to take responsibility for one's own actions" Project much?

PS - you'll notice that despite your un-rec, it will rise in recs. You are the minority. The truth usually wins out.

[NJmaverick]

7. There are 10s of thousands of tea party people, by your "logic"

that makes their beliefs correct.:eyes:


Not only did you fail to heed the warning that the massive amounts of destructive attacks on the Dems would cause harm, you are compounding your error be refusing to own up to it.

[Edweird]

8. Everyone but the administration is to blame, right?

Not the fact that the failed recycled RW policies we are being served reinforce "not a dime's worth of difference". Noticing that the policies are RW is what 'destroys the president', not the fact that RW policies are being peddled by a Dem white house with a Dem congress in the first place........

[NJmaverick]

9. People were repeatedly warned that their attacks and over the top

criticism was destructive. Those warnings fell on deaf ears. Now that those warnings have been proven correct, the same people are denying reality and blaming everyone but themselves for the easily foreseen consequences of their actions.

[Edweird]

10. It's the policies. It's the actions and failures to act. It's called 'accountability'.

[NJmaverick]

11. Yeah policies like clean energy, global cooperation, finance industry regulations

and healthcare for millions that never had it. You need to look within when you start talking about accountability.:eyes:

[Edweird]

12. Keep telling yourself that. The reality is much different than your starry eyed propaganda.

There were warnings about the RW policies and appointments from the beginning and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

[NJmaverick]

14. The constant attacks will lead to REAL RW policies, when the Dems lose

you are in for a rude awakening and unfortunately the nation will suffer for the short sightedness of so many

[Edweird]

17. My 'efforts'? What 'efforts'? People are unhappy with the administration.

You seem to have trouble grasping that. The 'we're not as bad' shtick isn't working. People voted for 'hope and change' that they believed in and got 'more of the same' instead. RW policies by a Dem administration, especially one with a Dem congress, is a surefire recipe for failure. Nobody but the administration is to blame for that.

[NJmaverick]

18. There are people that fail to grasp the FACT That changes doesn't happen over night

those people's unrealistic expectations not being met resulted in angry over the top destructive attacks.

[Edweird]

19. Again, it's not the speed but the direction. Dems weren't elected so they could peddle RW policy.

That's why people are unhappy. The apparent assault on Social Security will likely be the straw that broke the camel's back for a significant number of people - as well as a clear indication of exactly who and what is in the white house. There is no one to blame but the administration.

[Edweird]

20. Speaking of 'real RW policy'

Attacking Social Security is 'real RW policy'
Union busting is 'real RW policy'
The individual mandate is 'real RW policy' (FAR RW policy at that, advocated by Newt Gingrich among others)
Free trade is 'real RW policy'

We are already getting 'real RW policy'. This 'bad cop vs. worse cop' routine isn't helping.

[paulk]

13. "proven correct" by who?

you?

[NJmaverick]

15. Not by who, but by what

the reality of our current situation to be precise.

[paulk]

23. and who determines that "reality"?

you?

[dflprincess]

41. "blaming everyone but themselves for the easily foreseen consequences of their actions"

That's exactly what the White House, the Congressional Democrats and their apologists are doing.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

22. Responsibility for MY actions?

My little posts on DU have harmed the president and the party?

Wow! How powerful I am.

If only I had spent more time posting lies on DU claiming a dynamic economic recovery we would all be cruising to victory. Hell, if I had spent more time posting delusions and lies about the economy maybe the economy would actually even be fixed.

If only I had clapped harder... Tinker-bell would be alive.

Of course you are desperate for a scape-goat... your whole self-defeating plan would have worked if the cause wasn't stabbed in the back by ___________.

[bullwinkle428]

5. I hear the professional left was responsible for lousy signage!

:evilgrin:

[FrenchieCat]

30. no...

They were only responsible for the bottleneck up ahead,
that made the car have to take a detour.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. It's a wonder that they made it to Pittsburgh straddling the center line.

[depakid]

16. +1

:rofl:

[bvar22]

40. LOL...I would rec for your response.

First decent laugh of the day.
In his parable, the OP should have made the driver a Woodchuck
who keeps screaming "Fucking Retard" at the passenger.



"The only thing in the Middle of the Road
are Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos."--Jim Hightower

[Peacetrain]

21. There will be more than blame my friends.. we have got to get our heads out of the sand

We cannot ignore this election.

It is redistricting for the next 10 years.

I am really beginning to think a lot of us are not aware of what is at stake.

[sandnsea]

24. You forgot to mention the hurricane at the beach

And that they started the drive in Minnesota, not Maine.

[Radical Activist]

25. Maybe someday the wife will learn how to drive.

And do more than just nag somebody else.

[ibegurpard]

26. well if the parallels hold

the husband will destroy the car before he lets that happen.

[gulliver]

27. But there haven't been any Pittsburgh signs.

They get to the beach, and the wife starts seeing people coming out to clean the car windshield with dirty rags and spit. She hears the radio reporting one devastating baseball loss after the other. "There's proof," she shrieks. "A flock of pigeons!"

"First, Honey," says the husband, "a flock of pigeons is not a 'flock,' it's a 'kit.' But that is a flock of seagulls."

"And, also, I thought we were saving that mescaline for the beach!"

"Right, right, sorry!" says the wife. "Put the Seals and Crofts on for me. I need to come down."

On edit: "I added some things, and I also apologize to Pittsburgh. Just joking!"

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

29. Hmmm... sounds like the wife needs to be drug tested

[gulliver]

32. Good one!

Peace out.

[FrenchieCat]

28. A GPS would have helped........

which is why that analogy is less than.

If it was figured that getting to the beach would be as easy as getting in a car and turning on the engine and pushing on the pedal, than it appears that assuming to exactly know the way was just an arrogant assumption based on unrealistic expectations that everything would go just right.

They should have gotten a map and seen that either way they chose at the fork, the giant potholes, the upcoming thunderstorm one way, and the large accident blocking all lanes the other, as well the detour signs they would encounter, meanwhile running low on gas with not a station up ahead-- They could have instead anticipated that all of those obstacles weren't going to allow them remotely close to the beach.....anytime soon.

Instead they should have enjoyed the scenery, and enjoyed the sites as they drove. That would have made them less stressed and would have given them a much more positive experience as they tried getting to their final destination....no matter how long it would taken.

[Born_A_Truman]

38. Or, they could have just decided to stay home ...

Because that beach isn't perfect, ya know? It has riptides and high surf.

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[Catherina]

34. Rec'd. n/t

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

36. Ha! For all the good that will do you

This thread appears to have been made a project.

[rufus dog]

35. I think you left out one party

The fall down drunk obnoxious asshole in the back seat who keeps screaming "Give me the keys."

As the husband and wife fight the drunk grabs the keys, runs over the couple, and then totals the car in a ravine.

[Lyric]

42. Absolutely.

So the idiotic husband should stop fighting his intelligent, forward-thinking wife and all will be well.

:hi:

[VMI Dem]

37. Rec.

[RandomThoughts]

39. That would so fit corporate system.

Throw the election to corporatist then blame the liberals. Explains part of the media narrative also.


They been doing that for awhile. Let them do that if they want.


Those fuckers will pay. They will pay.


:shrug:

People have said stuff in that story about me also, they want me to do something for money already due to me. Isn't that the craziest thing you have heard, I am already due money and people say I should do something to get it?

That is crazy.

The fuckers will pay.