A Culture of Losers
In an important book, A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character, which appeared in 1992, Charles Sykes speaks of “victim chic” and deplores its “catalog of immanent grievance and infinite self-assertion.” Sykes quotes former Assistant Education Secretary Chester Finn, who had it exactly right: “In our no-fault society, it is acceptable to be a victim but not to be held responsible for one’s own situation or for that of one’s children.” We have, Sykes argues, torn up the moral contract underwriting “shared middle-class values” and installed a “victimist” ideology in its place, eliminating social distinctions “based on individual success.” We all experience unfairness and injustice, he concludes, “but that does not mean we need to turn them into all-purpose alibis.”
The confirmation of Sykes’ thesis is all around us. It seems as if we now live in societies filled mainly with victims: victims of mainstream culture, victims of exclusionary daycare policies, victims of transfats, victims of the schoolyard game of tag where some poor child is made to feel “it,” victims of secondhand smoke, victims of the tax system, victims of anti-terror laws, victims of those who pose as victims, victims of state lotteries, victims of potentially lethal glass mugs in British pubs, victims of our genes, victims of “puritanism” (i.e., moral propriety), victims of this and victims of that — those who make up what Bruce Thornton in Plagues of the Mind has aptly called “the conga line of victimhood,” to which the nanny state materially contributes.
And this new class of victims is abundantly complemented by an army of “survivors,” cashing in on what they regard as the prestige of those who have experienced real, historical calamities. Once we were content to say, as in the title of a famous poetry collection by D.H. Lawrence, “Look! We have come through,” and leave it at that. Now we are driven to proclaim our newfound status. We are survivors of this phobia or that phobia, survivors of one or another disease, survivors of tenement life, survivors of reality TV shows, survivors of the free market and corporate industry viewed as a great and oppressive structure of domination, survivors of brutal parents, survivors of feral children, survivors of workplace humiliation, survivors of scalding cups of McDonald’s coffee, survivors of what-have-you, all clamoring for attention, recognition, sympathy, and compensation.
But survivors are only victims by another name, for their “survival” depends on the acknowledgment of their suffering, that is, on what we might call an Asclepian concern from those who have not yet joined this therapeutic category. The flaunting of debility is their greatest strength. They own their victimhood and will not be deprived of it. Radio host Larry Elder, author of The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America, has coined the term “victicrats” to apply to African-Americans who profit from the bogey of white guilt, but it could apply equally well to the entire commonality of professional victims who make their living off the cult of entitlement that has sunk its roots deep into the Western psyche. In a culture that has scrapped natural endowments in favor of artificial entitlements, nothing succeeds like failure.
This whole essay could have been condensed into a simple sentence: Western “civilization” is giving up.
No wonder the Wahhabi scum are making mincemeat of you all!
How one writes this article without one use of the word “oprah” is beyond me. She is the queen of victimhood.
Other than that, spot on.
Is victim-hood really new? The sharing of war horror stories and comparing battle scars? Shuckies! Haven’t you ever heard ol’ gramps tell the story of how he trudged fifty miles on foot through the snow to get to a one room school heated only by a small wood stove? No? What about grandma’s bursitis? Aunt Gina’s high blood pressure? Uncle Dave’s bad back?
Eh. The stories and characters might have changed but the airing of grievances remains the same. Yes, now so many people are on
placebosmedications for depression, OCD, tourettes, PTSD, ADD, etc. ad infinutum that it’s all one big blurry reality TV show audition starring your neighbor. Yeah mon, the fogies boozed, the hippies toked, the yuppies coked and now the yippies (yipppppeeee!) are on PRESCRIBED mind/mood altering drugs!Somebody lemme offa this crazy merry-go-round!
(Yes, I’m a survivor). NEENER
I almost want to ask what do you mean we?
But kicking someone when they are down is nearly the bravest thing a writer can do these days, and I applaud you for it.
It no doubt irritates you that almost anyone can enter the kingdom of heaven as well. :: ))
but they can, personal responsibility or not.
Brilliant!
ADE
Maybe I’m biased, but (for me) this overarching imperative to deny responsibility (and cash in) dates back to a TV program called “The Paper Chase” . . . One of the collateral effects of this popular program was a large increase in the amount of students studying law, leading to a glut of lawyers . . . What to do? SO firms like Jacobi and Meyers, Binder(x2) and others developed a victim trade through advertising and telling-their-clients-whatever-they-wanted-to hear . . . creating a lucrative lawsuit market that we all pay for so willingly.
So this culture of the irresponsible creates (or was created by) the legal mercenary profession. Look at the advertising dollars spent on lawsuit fishing expeditions on your TV. Whether for MESOLAW or Social Security the firms peddle soporifics and promises, dump those they can’t win and milk those they do win. Eventually (and to a “progressive” it is the dialectic dream) if the people are not responsible for their decisions some government might decide they can’t be allowed to make them.
If the people will not take responsibility for their own (or their family’s) lives why should they be allowed to?
Amen, brother.
This has also been academized in the form of the philosophy of no free will. Everybody (sans PhD) is assumed not to have, or to have shockingly limited, free will.
This, of course, only applies to perpetrators. Those that judge do have free will, but should not.
It would depress me to think of this, but I have no choice but to be happy.
An infantile culture. Everyone wants their neighbor to be their surrogate mommy, daddy, grammy or grampy — kiss their boo-boos and tell them how wonderful and unique they are.
David, don’t discount the fault of lawyers and the liability lottery that has conditioned our culture to absolutely believe that they are “entitled” to enormously disproportionate redress for their injury or inconvenience.
Today, only the fortunate ones get into accidents.
The methodical feminization of America and American men contributes as well.
“It’s OK to cry” became “Just cry and I’ll like you”.
“In touch with your feminine side” became “Show some testosterone and you’re dead”.
The result IS a nation of losers. And guess what?
They’re losing wars, losing wealth, losing knowledge, losing …..
The contemporary victim trades his personal pride for political privileges, and sometimes for material profit as well. Those of us who are accused of victimizing him are inhibited from defending ourselves by strident accusations of “blaming the victim” and other attempts to taboo the matter. In this regard, the shamans of political correctness are especially, venomously vocal — even as the “officially” victimized perpetuate victimizing language and low-class patterns of behavior as badges of membership among themselves.
Resistance is useless. You will be assimilated, by one victim group or another. At least, your wallet and what remains of your freedom will be.
Excellent commentary! No where is this more prevalent than in our public schools. Parents are getting their kids labled “disabled” for monetary and behavioral reasons-reasons which they themselves are not then held accountable of financially libel. Once labeled these kids are beyond fault or reproach. LaQuaniesha just hit a teacher-it’s not her fault.
And then there are the parents whose child deserves the best grades even if their child did not deserve them. Just give them the best grades or they will call the principal or NAACP. Teachers are forced to change their grades…Harvard and Yale have nothing on public school teachers regarding grade inflation.
And then you get the parents whose child in belligerent, a threat to civil order in the classroom and a major disruption but MUST be allowed to stay in the classroom. It is not his fault he acts this way; it is the white man’s fault, or society or America in general who is to blame.
True victocrats begin in school. They are coddled and nutured by guilt ridden white apologists who tell parents how to game the system. While some may go to college on affirmative action scholarships others get an early start on gaming the Dem party system of entitlements.
excellent essay David Solway.
it used to be that victims weren’t tolerated. but thanks to the liberal western education it is now mainstream and those that want to take responsibility and those who advocate responsibility are shunned.
conversely those countries that educate their children in math and sciences are improving their economies and their standards of living. examples ..China and India and Brasil. You don’t see them tearing their societies up for collectivist victim notions.
the ironic if not funny side of this issue is that the liberal/marxist that push the victim hood agenda are very aggressive in protecting their program, even to the point of violence.
So very true. Everything becomes a measuring stick for some special status due to “unfairness”. Two examples from just one day,yesterday.
A report studing the after affects of women in combat situations found post traumatic stress symptoms about 40% higher and required very long theraputic treatment after service.
I believe this was one of the arguments against women in combat service roles.
I thought ex combat service trauma was a badge of heraldry that warriors earned through sacrifice and deed. I was wrong, I guess its just another class of victims.
And Obama Democrats are seeking to make loan defaults from student loans disappear after 10 years if you enter government service. I have seen their criteria for employment and merit is not on the list of qualifications . An applicants ethnicity and color are the first consideration. I suppose this creates another long list victim/losers who become winners by the magic of government .
Clearly, one can be victimized. Therefore, one can be a victim. In my own life, I was molested as a child. As a consequence, I endured bouts of depression for years. A few years ago, I narrowly missed being murdered in a street crime incident. I had to work through a bout of PTSD as a result.
I never liked the label–victim. There was always something somewhat smarmy or oily about the term–survivor. When trying on either of those mantles, I was keenly aware of those who have endured worse circumstances than I had.
With reference to my having been victimized, I have begun thinking of myself as a veteran of my circumstances. Viewpoint and perspective are the keys. If you revel and wallow in a set of past victimizing circumstances, you remain a victim. If you acknowledge those circumstances, mourn them, process them, and take counsel from them in order to proceed with life, you can become a veteran.
Carolyn Hax, the Washington Post advice columnist captured this nicely when she wrote,”Whether you move forward depends on how you choose to look backward.”
God save our Republic.
To achieve victim status recognition and sympathy is required. This can only be dispensed by the media and so an immediate political coloration becomes part of the mix.
From there to calls for government action is a short step. The media may also use victimology as a weapon as in “the victims of George Bush’s policies”.
One way or another government is always the answer, at least to our idiot media. And, for example, we see and have had another lesson in the past year of just how well government works.
“If you can’t succeed at success, you can always succeed at failure. It isn’t much, but at least you can claim a victory in losing.”
In the culture wars, go figure, there has been 50 years of MSM theme shows on TV that star ‘Totally ineffectual dad ‘(Homer Simpson i.e.), followed by ED commercials. Some types of script writers just had to get that curse on the air.
“Victimhood”…starts at home…it is a home grown, home taught mentality. It is not only welfare “breeders”, it is in the schools, the workplace in “affirmative action” and many other places/things
Our government perpetuates this and we allow it.
15. Harvard Yard Conservative:
there is a difference between the victimization you talk about and the victimization that is being taught and promoted in the schools and society at large.
in a criminal case one is a victim. but the collectivized victim hood is a Saul Alinski weapon against responsibility and and freedom.
there is no long term collective society success out there without respect for individual rights and freedoms.
In days gone by the old folk would tell of their difficulties, their trials and tribulations. They didn’t do this to demand reperations, subsidies or pity. They told these stories to brag really. ‘Look how I overcame, how tough I was/am!” They also showed how everone had problems and everone had the duty to do their best with what was handed them.
How completely different from the victimocrats of today. We are a lesser people.
Definition of victimhood:
“You’re gonna pull the plug on grandma!”
The central psycholgical point of identifying as a “victim” is that the story of personal victimization justifies hatred.
The victim is the hater.
Hey – check it out!
The trolls get their very own article.
Some people and organizations are more victims than others. I remember the church’s in the south proclaiming that they were victims…and how the whole world was against them. There was a church on nearly every street and they were raking the money in. Yet, they were victims. Then you had those that were poor, disabled, defenseless, they did’nt say much cuz they really had no voice. Then you had the business folks claiming that the entire government was against them, trying to force them out of business, taxing them …placing terrible burdens on them..they were real victims. So I learned that being a “victim” can really be a great marketing tool…agree?
Sadly, one cannot help but ponder that in the darwinian struggle for survival and primacy, a society that values weakness and penalizes strength will inevitably fail. Of course, our financial excesses might ruin us first.
It is truly an alice in wonderland to live in the US in this day and age where achievement is taken as evidence of selfishness and exploitation. The only allowable achievement is that resulting from rescuing the downtrodden from capitalists, in the manner of gore, obama, soros, and everyone else who professes marxian beliefs. The inherent hypocracy of elites espousing a social scheme of economic equality needs only passing mention.
24. Poor Citizen:
cann’t you come up with your own stuff. do you have to always revert to Saul Alinski and the liberal talking points.
Don Henley said it well: “Victin of this, victim of that, your Momma’s too thin & your Daddy’s too fat – GET OVER IT” (from the song “Get over it”
Two words: Tort reform
great article.victicrat..heh.
harvard yard conservative:”I have begun thinking of myself as a veteran of my circumstances.”
that is a fantastic way of putting it!i have had more than my share of ah..unpleasantness in my life,but it pales in comparison to what i have witnessed happen to others.
my own experiences had left me risk adverse,i have since identified and corrected that shortcoming.
it has also made me a better person.
i feel sorry for the fearful and timid,they will never live a fulfilling life.
the rest of you eyeores need to buck up…we are WINNING this battle…because-in the end-NOBODY likes a p#$$y.
poor citizen:”There was a church on nearly every street and they were raking the money in.”
hmmm,i wonder why….maybe for the”poor,disabled and defenseless “?
28. Son of Bob wins the “Most Cogent” award on this topic.
24. Poor Citizen wins the “Greatest Use of Obfuscation” award.
This victimization mentality also leads to the demand for greater “rights” in this country. For example, poor people and middle class people are all victims of those greedy banks, therefore everyone should be compensated with cheap, low-interest, mortgages. Even if these same people can’t afford the mortgage, they “deserve” them because they’re victims, regardless of who gets stuck with the final bill.
Another example is abortion. A pregnant female is always the “victim,” regardless of whether or not she got pregnant through her own carelessness. Therefore, we should have abortion on demand, because the female “victim” should not have to be responsible for having unsafe sex. And please, don’t throw out the old “rape and incest” argument for abortion. Of course women who are real victims of rape and incest should be allowed to have an abortion, but this is a small fraction of the abortions performed on demand in this nation. Let’s not fool ourselves, abortion is being used as a form of contraception by people who just can’t be bothered with real forms of contraception, which is sad. And let’s not even talk about late-term partial birth abortions, which is just plain legalized murder.
Need another example? We all know people are “victims” of the evil insurance companies, right? Therefore, everyone has a “right” to “affordable” (which is another word for free) health insurance. Health insurance is now considered a “right,” just like freedom of speech or freedom of religion. Funny, I didn’t see anything in my copy of the Constitution about free health care. If what the liberals say is true and health care insurance is now a “right,” why not get a Constitutional Amendment to say it is, instead of making it a giant pork project for the Democrats and sticking only part of our population with the bill?
Need another example? All teenagers are obviously at the mercy of those greedy, overpriced, universities that charge horrific sums of money these days for a degree that may not be worth the paper it’s printed on. These kids are obviously the “victims” of a corrupt system of higher education that blatantly favors rich students, right? Therefore, these victims have a right to low-cost government loans for their higher education, regardless of whether or not they will be able to repay these loans. Whatever happened to attending a local college or a state university and only going if you could afford the tuition? Whatever happened to joining the military or getting a job with a large corporation that would assist you in paying for your degree? I guess that type of hard work or self-sacrifice is out of vogue these days, because it’s so much easier to make the government pay for your perceived victimization.
And lets not even talk about the billions and billions of dollars spent by the Federal Government on programs that are funded for African-American kids (black victimization), Native Americans (American Indian victimization), women and girls (sexist victimization), and union workers (working class victimization), to name just a few. Victimization always leads to greater government intrusion in our lives and greater government spending to help these supposed “vicitims.” We will only be able to reduce the size of our government and the amount of federal spending if we make more people and the individual states responsible for their own actions. If not, you will end up with a huge nanny state that will have to wet nurse everyone in this nation so that nobody will have to take individual responsibility for anything.
Cannot blame a legal system for this phenomenon.
In a republic ( representative republic, etc) People will generally get the government they deserve. If the people cannot bring themselves to change the cogs in the system, then it will spiral down to the lowest common foundation or denominator of the masses.
Its pretty pitiful sight to watch the USA floundering like a beached whale…groups smell blood and they are stripping away the nations assets; natural resources, its ports, manufacturing industry, intellectual property, even its education system. Not only is the Government allowing but providing tax incentives to do so.
Ex-Govt officials use the same terrorist organizations trying to kill us, to launder money through the bank system. Govt agencies use slush funds like private banking accounts, and when caught they are too powerful or well connected to prosecute.
Its not the system, its the citizens acceptance of how the system works
We have a rule in our house that my kids know well, you are not allowed to complain about something by saying “It’s not fair.”
A personal injury lawyer told me that most of her clients could have avoided their situation had they been looking where they were going.
Yes, the lawyers deserve blame. But so do the juries.
24. Poor Citizen:
I guess that is why you use the moniker “poor citizen” playing the victim card.
you really are stupid.
I have just finished rereading Frances Hodgson Burnett’s THE LITTLE PRINCESS. It is about Sara Crew, who is reduced to being an underfed, underclothed drudge after her father dies and is unable to pay the fees at her boarding school. What a wonderful antidote to the victimhood industry!
On further reflection, the tendency towards bestowing a special status upon alleged victims really is another example of how watered down Marxism has infiltrated our society.
In a Marxist model you have the oppressors (the capitalists) and the oppressed (the workers or the proletariat). Of course, the oppressed workers are the victims, and we must recognize their special, if not divine, status vis-a-vis the evil and damned capitalists. (Hence the Left’s recent explanation of “working class anger” for the recent upset in Massachusetts. Also, note the frequent references to Joe Biden’s “working class” childhood in Scranton–even though his father owned a car dealership and Biden attended an expensive college preparatory school as a youth. Likewise, Barack Obama must have been oppressed because of his skin color–even though in his oppressed state he lived most of his childhood with his grandmother who was a corporate executive, and he attended an expensive college preparatory school in Hawaii, and later attended Columbia and Harvard.)
One achieves an unassailable, devout, anointed, chosen, and elect status within the Leftist paradigm by claiming victimhood. Furthermore, when Leftist elites and Leftist institutions bestow the knighthood of victimhood upon and individual or group, they claim for themselves an even more divine status, that of enlightenment.
God save our Republic.
to #33 Over50:
When my children whined,”It’s not fair!” I answered,”You are right. The (state) fair is in late August.”
Excellent article, but victimhood will continue to thrive as long as we have the likes of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Oprah (as mentioned by J. Utah above), Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, Howard Dean, Keith Olbermann, Paul Krugman, et al around. These people make their living off constant drama, and the victimization of anyone they can find. The trial lawyers aren’t innocent in all of this, either, but they must have a victim to file suit. Someone will always be the victim where money is handed out by the government – the teachers’ unions, the UAW, the honey industry, farmers, welfare recipients, you name it, b/c either they didn’t get enough of a handout, or b/c someone else got more.
Don mentions “Paper Chase” and the legal culture. It reminds me of an exercise for my lawyer friends: Name just three injuries or personal setbacks for which no case can be made that another is legally responsible. Try that exercise on your own acquaintances in the legal profession; you’ll find most are stumped.
But, seriously, Americans are amateurs in the culture of victimhood. The true masters are Arabs and Muslims whose whole honor/shame culture can’t deal with their status. For them it is ALWAYS someone else’s fault – a competing tribe, their own corrupt government, the West, the US, Israel and – always somehow – the JOOOOOZ.
It is Generation Why Me, and Generation WTF?
One is bought out to leave after failure. Exit clauses are the pre-nup of the working world. Failure is rewarded and expected, since we are incapable of committing to staying through the ups and downs of tough times.
Oprah is the mother of the whiney victim movement–the liberal, childless woman who mocks Sarah Palin’s daughter for her decision to choose to abstain. The decision makes Oprah “bristle”.
Oprah is a poverty pimp who doesn’t want people to succeed unless she handpicks them and they find success on her terms. Barack Obama was her favorite thing. Mission accomplished.
I don’t like to call them victims for I usually don’t know for sure if they really were victimized by anything other than their own stupidity. I prefer to describe their behavior, which is on display for all to see. Thus I call them whiners.
Obama is the king of “it’s not my fault”…The Democrat party is the party of welfare enslavement, and Oprah is someone I have no respect for.
What is going to happen to us as a nation? I find it difficult to believe that we will allow Obama, Pelosi and that elitest bunch to ruin us…or Muslims to pull us down in the sand with them and die.
We need media that emerges that will be truthful with the public. We need to be more careful who we elect to office…such as looking into their background..carefully and not letting people like Obama slip into any office. We need a Spanish FOX station.
Fool us once shame on you…fool U.S. twice. shame on U.S…
Obama needs to be replaced. 2012…lets hope he and his peopole don’t do too much more damage.
Yes, I am a sufferer to. As part of the United States of America, I suffer Obama. We are a nation of victims. Maybe survivors. In fact, I’m optimistic many if not most of us can survive the Obama years. So much so that I’ve put in inventory some ten thousand red T-shirts for sale at what I deem an appropriate time. $19.95 and anybody who wants one can have one. One to a body. The red shirt’s lettering says. “I survived the Obama years and all I got was this lousy shirt.”
Anyway, since I’ve always liked reruns, I decided for free to run this re-run of one of my “Best” With a bonus.
To go on sale when my book comes out, “Barry Bad President” subhead: how i survived the obama years without a lot of therapy. It’s a must read.
Here’s the re-run. Enjoy.
From my point of view, President (and I use the term loosely) Barack Obama does not have the slightest concern for the well being and safety of this republic and its people. Which makes things for me difficult.
For instance, it be (no typo) difficult for me to view him other than as an enemy of the state in a wartime environment.
While I’ve been known to use hyperbole with the same regularity that some use hand sanitizer or mouthwash, this is one time when I’m giving it to you straight. I believe that now is the time for all good Congressmen and women to come to the aid of their country. I believe they must band together to control this man who I believe possesses the mental schematic of a deranged individual. He has made at least ten decisions that I consider proof positive of his unbalanced-as-a three-legged-horse nature.
1. Spending millions on New York lawyers to defend uncivilized creatures who kill innocent Americans rather than on new weapons systems to kill
them.
2. Letting weapons-carrying, voter intimidating Black Panther pukes get off Scot-free.
3. Running the national debt up by more than three million dollars in fewer than 12 months.
4. Trying to kill the free enterprise system.
5. Refusing to say the pledge of allegiance.
6. Apologizing to thug tyrant mass murderers in other countries for the actions of the land of the free and the home of the brave.
7. Refusing to admit the “surge” worked.
8. Hiring into the Obama administration all manners of tax cheats, self proclaimed NAMBLA supporters and communists (Timothy Guenther,
Kevin Jennings and Van Jones).
9. Throwing Poland and the Czech Republic under the Russian bus by breaking the promise to provide them with missile defense.
10.Naming a self confessed bigot (white males are intellectually inferior) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor.
In my opinion, three years more of this prima donna-esque, supercilious, mental whack job are three too many for these are dangerous times. A constitutional majority vote of the executive officers of government is needed to relieve President Obama of the duties that obviously he is unable to discharge forthwith. It all comes under the 25th amendment to the constitution. Change. Yes you can.
Jan 26, 2010 – 12:40 am
Don’t forget the McVictims. Obviously they were saving the McNuggets for one of those fat cat bankers.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0303091mcnugget1.html
Vioxx. A good drug for arthritis. It worked and I liked it. It didn’t harm me at all yet I was continually approached to join in the law suit against it’s maker. Many joined the suit even though they had no damages. Victims, with damages that only money could fix, were created out of the thinnest of air. The company was forced to take a good, relatively safe and effective drug off of the market due to very few actual “victims” but a vulture-like legal action with a lot of piling on.
44. rachel peepers:
this prima donna-esque, supercilious, mental whack job are three too many for these are dangerous times
those are the good features you described.
regards
Rachel peepers,
like your posts. thanks
When I was a drunken addict, life was so unfair, and everyone was so mean to me! Then I learned that I was the only one who could fix me, and got on with it. Being a victim = being powerless over your own situation.
Sure, there are folks who take advantage and abuse others, but blaming them when I invite them to do it by my choices and behavior is nonsensical.
So lots of time has gone by, and hanging on to the poor me’s because things used to be bad doesn’t make a bit of sense, because if I could fix it, then it was in my control to start with. Learn from the past, but don’t keep living in it.
Are far out leftist, communist agitator propagandist types, who by some quirk of fate have a Professor in front of their names, and use it as
a hammer to bang leftist ideology into students’ minds to be trusted and quoted when discussing Glenn Beck? I don’t think so.
They disagree with the words of a TV program that exposes communism for the killing machine
it’s been for the last lll years? And we’re supposed to take them at their word?
I think not.
In my book, that’s like asking Hitler what he thinks about a history channel documentary about the Holocaust.
Incidentally, these professors thoroughly and slobberingly love Obama’s Alinsky-esque version of history and the anti-free-enterprise direction
this nation is headed. And hate Scott Brown and everything he stands for.
People, how many realize that the Scott Brown victory was the equivalent of dodging a lethal bullet to the heart of Uncle Sam?
I hope we learned a lesson. Never vote for a miscreant who wants to destroy every ideal this country was founded upon. In case anybody
has any doubts, let me make something perfectly clear. From my point of view, President (and I use that term loosely) Barack Obama has no concern for the health, wealth, or well being of this great Republic and its people.
In fact, in my opinion, Obama, in complicity with his henchmen, henchwomen and hench-homos has tried to inject this country with a lethal injection of assorted poisons which, but not for the people of Massachusetts, may, I’m sorry to say, have done us all in.
But Obama isn’t giving up. In his upcoming State of the Union Speech, our own anointed minister of propaganda is going to try to poison our minds
once again.
Focus group testing, (they don’t trust their own judgment {and neither do I}) has shone that Americans are uncomfortable, no, hate, the ludicrous 3.5 trillion dollar spending spree (under the guise of “stimulus and bailouts) that Obama has engaged in.
Since it’s coming close to bankrupting us, and since the American people recognize it for what it is, in his State of the Union Speech, Obama’s
going to announce a SPENDING FREEZE.
Don’t let the words fool you. Obama has thousands of tax money accounts in the bank. All this means is that three of those accounts, amounting to one tenth of one percent of our tax money, will be frozen. This slight of hand gesture is just a head fake. For spending is Obama’s middle name and spending us to death is his end game.
In the state of the union speech, TeleBabama will tell you that the almost four trillion dollars that he’s spent so far has saved us from a catastrophic depression (another 899,000 Frequent Liar Miles that goes directly into Obama’s personal Cayman Island account). He’ll also brag about the millions of jobs he’s saved. (What’s a saved job?) America is still pondering that question.
And how does Obama save so many jobs when the unemployment rate has gone from 7 to 10.5% under his watch? Is he on socialist time? Or is it simply a case of Obama Math? Is he smarter than a 5th grader? Or does he just have a Kevin Jennings in his administration that is rumored to know how gullible 5th graders think? Think I’m kidding? I’m not.
Obama will also brag about his other wonderful accomplishments.
Perfecting fifty different ways, while on foreign soil, to apologize to third world tyrants and mass murderers for the evils of America.
Letting Black Panther voter-intimidator felony crime offenders get off scott free after they don’t even show up for their court date.
Mistaking a solid oak locked door for CNN broadcasted transparency.
Throwing Poland and the Czech Republic under the Russian bus by taking away their promised missile defense system.
Spending millions on lawyers to defend terrorists rather than millions on weapons systems to kill them.
Hardly questioning the shoe shine Christmas Day bomber, and giving the sub-human the rights of a United States citizen.
Meanwhile, I’ve gotta mention Obama’s speech technique of creating the straw man and knocking him down. I can hear Obama saying in the front
of his big speech.
“Thirty million uninsured children mean something to me. A heath care system that steals your coverage because of a pre-existing
condition means something to me. Bankers that take your tax money to save their jobs and then award 20 million in bonus money means something to me. Bla bla bla and on and on and on.
Let’s face it, Obama is a Barry Barry bad President.
With one socially redeeming factor. He’s a great teleprompter reader. When it comes to reading a speech from
a teleprompter he can be as electrifying as a nuclear power plant. But don’t let that fool you. When it comes to the no earmark promise, he’s a liar. When it comes to the promise to put us down the road of energy independence, he should be arrested for driving without a license. When it comes to keeping this country strong and safe, he’s on a mental vacation in Hawaii; completely asleep at the switch. Or flat out guilty of national moral turpitude.
Obama’ll say he’d rather be a one term President than not do what’s right for America. What he really means is that he’s out to redistribute wealth, kill the American dream, neuter our military and stick our grandchildren with a 25 trillion dollar debt by the time he’s done.
But that’s not all.
Obama wants desperately to amend the constitution to be a multi term President. That’s what he wants. He never defined the change he promised except to say he was out to transform America.
Folks, what he’s out to do is destroy it. Make it look like it’s been in a horrible fiery crash so it’s unrecognizable.
Make no mistake about it. Obama’s hands are in both your pockets. His eyes are reading out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. His speechwriters, as we speak, are out to make fools of us all.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When Barack obama took the oath of office on that fateful January Day, if he was hooked up
to a lie detector, that truth needle would be jumping back and forth like a man on a fuzzy tree.
Obama wears a mask of words. It’s
time we all mentally removed it and saw the man for what he really is.
Not the anointed one. But evil incarnate.
Show me a republican, and I will show you a “victim” with a belly full of self-pity.
Funny American wingnuts bleat about communism yet they are the biggest sponsor of the communist country CHINA. Stupidity isn’t relegated merely to the victimhood culture, it would seem.
To Numbers: 26, 29, 30, 35(cazea de cacka)
Sorry, did not mean to “victimize” you with intelligence, truth and facts.
Just repeat..”there is no place like home, no place like home”
and you will be safe. ok? Good Luck to you !
RE: Culture of loserhood: OBAMA will fit right in!After his one term, he can go on Oprah and blame George Bush,Chaney and Rush,for being mean to him!
#53 Poor citizen:Not only are you a poor excuse for a citizen,but your Spanish is cretinous.Have you been victimized by poor genes?Please tell your special needs teacher to consult a dictionary before writing your posts.
55. deguello:
#53 Poor citizen:Not only are you a poor excuse for a citizen,but your Spanish is cretinous
the poor (victim) citizen would not even know enough history to know who Cabeza de Vaca is.
#56 Cabeza de Vaca:that is because like all libtards,his cabeza is full of caca. Best Regards! Deguello
We have the privilege of being witnesses to the systematic disassembly of our culture and implosion of our civic institutions. This is by design, NOT as a result of some unforeseeable state of affairs to which we are held hostage. Our politicians, educators, journalists, and entertainment all insist that we “deconstruct” every venerable aspect of Western Culture. We celebrate mediocrity and failure whilst punishing and abhorring success. Everyone is special, but no one is better. Making normative judgments are verboten. We are told our civilization is no better than that of a third-world country run by rapists, looters, and warlords. We no longer have the freedom to report fact and truth or say 2 + 2 = 4. Instead, we are compelled to believe such fallacies as man-made global warming and ostracized if we dare question the party line or present alternative scientific explanations. Passivity, feminization, “feelings,” and “perspective” are valued over action, results, or improvements.
If one ever wondered how classical Roman cultured failed, one need look no further than our own backyards. Where once there was a society of rugged individualists, men of action, people of industry, we no longer build anything worthwhile, loathe any expansion of “Western” values, and value self-criticism above increasing knowledge. Just as Romans stopped producing works of art, science, and literature, all of our works are entirely derivative, re-examining, re-interpreting, and repudiating our cultural values. Compare the quality of ancient sculpture, infrastructure, literature to that of the dark ages (oops, I mean “late antiquity”). The culture that produced Mozart and Beethoven now relishes in gansta rap and series of meaningless sounds. Where the Romans used new religions and churches to create a culture of victimhood, we look to pseudo-science and therapists. (After all, the main drawing point for Christianity was that people could accept their lot in life and feel secure that their oppressors would face judgment in the afterlife).
Our robust farmers have left the plow in the fields for jobs as scribes and bureaucrats. Leisure, not industry is now the greatest object in life. Children no longer want to “be somebody,” they just want to be famous. We no longer built the world’s biggest structures or greatest engineering marvels. Instead, we devote our collective energy to finding more and more expensive and complex forms of entertainment. Our greatest minds build video games, not bridges.
Our military is ridiculed and our government is forced to resort to bribery (signing bonuses, free college educations, new cars, etc.) to keep up our enlistments. Service is no longer honored, it is chastised.
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Orwell was just a few decades too early.
52: Exactly right. We now buy our enemies’ products instead of exporting symbols of our culture. We no longer demand concessions from our enemies, we simply pay more tribute.
Vatican has set the enlightment on self-destruct
The key game to the Unelightenment is to claim that if you can’t prove you are being damaged by thus and so, then you have no right to isolate yourself from it even though that would be the one way of proving whether it was damaging you or not.
Its the basic way in which the West has fallen short of the Enlightenment—the achilles heel of the West.
No one else is required to justify their beliefs and territorial control with empirical evidence because the Enlightenment wasn’t their idea. Only we are so required, but then we are prohibited from doing what it takes to get that empirical evidence in the social sciences: exclude and expel.
To put the game in stark terms: It is more acceptable to impose treatments on people without their consent when they can’t prove harm, than it is to relocate people when some others think they are harming them but can’t prove it.
I’ve never seen that tradeoff even explicated in public discourse.