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Originally posted by endisnighe
reply to post by djvexd
Well, I was also thinking in the opposite direction.
What if they put the rest of us on mood stabilizers?
I would be posting on here about the birds and the rainbows instead of my rants on the control freaks.
Hey look at these pretty pictures djvexd.
Originally posted by ATruthHunter
reply to post by TheCoffinman
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Originally posted by Carseller4
I think attacks like these will rise.
Recent examples are the "Obama obsessed" College professor shooting her fellow teachers, the capitalist hating guy that flew his plane into a FBI building, and now a 9/11 truther attacking the Pentagon.
Remember the rise of psychiatric care when John Kerry lost to Bush in 2004? Now think about how hard people fell for Obama in 2008? Now think about how liberals tend to be filled with hate in the first place. Combine the two and I don't see this trend stopping anytime soon.
I like how he mentions this about conspiracy theorists, are we not allowed to have a different opinion now?
Maybe, because your comment was one big rant.
You say the fault of the current condition has to do with not enough control.
That may be why no one even wanted to respond to your points, not because we have no retort, we just don't care what your points are.
Ever think of that?
First, American society has (not for the first time in history) reached a point where massive intervention by the state is necessary in order to keep the country on the rails--the laissez-faire approach so beloved of Americans is not working.
Thus the state has recently obliged to impose significant restrictions on citizens' privacy and freedom of movement to protect them against terrorism (even though the 'war against terrorism' is, itself, something of a overreaction necessary to placate terrified, hysterical voters); it has been obliged to intervene massively in the economy in order to stabilize it; and it will soon be obliged to intervene on an equally huge scale to avert the catastrophic environmental consequences of overconsumption, in particular, climate change.
These huge interventions have understandably caused great resentment, even among ordinary, well-adjusted people. For mentally unstable political naifs, however, they are evidence of a massive conspiracy by the government, or some shadowy force behind the government, to take away from patriotic Americans their freedoms (and their precious guns). This resentment--which is, at bottom, resentment at being forced to become a bit more like the rest of the world in order to survive when you are no longer the dominant force in it--is the first of the three causes I mentioned earlier.
Originally posted by Astyanax... The antics of paranoid conspiracists, however, seem to threaten a catastrophic implosion in which the country destroys itself in a paroxysm of self-hating, hysterical violence--America running amok, gashing and maiming itself.
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