Hey “Fat Sean” normally I’m not one to get into this sorta “YOU IDIOTS” game but I will make the occasional exception. And I’d mention that I like DARK HELMET’S take on things, as (I hope I get this right “VET IN LURKING”), I’m a lurking vet too. Took that same oath, “To protect and defend the Constitution”, First Amendment included.
I’ve not moved only because well, why should I? Should I not be entitled to live wherever I choose and to live in some modicum of security?
Anyone know (or hear of a guy named HL Mencken?) I do know he wasn’t considered in his time such a great guy but what the hey. His take on the politics of his day seems more appropriate today.
““Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
I realize what I’m about to type is likely gonna be taken as blasphemy by the (normally I’d call it the exremists on either side) people disageeing. But in my youth things actually got done. If something didn’t work, it got changed. Today we all call each other idiots and no one can “respectfully agree to disagree” and so nothing gets done. I’m old so I reckon ya’ll will just have to work it out. Good luck.
HL Mencken: “Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
