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RE: Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win (Drudge Siren)
(02-26-2016 06:50 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: (02-26-2016 03:30 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: I hope the establishment isn't simply panicking but getting the message.
America despises the establishment. It's time for them to go and take their ****** policies, underhanded tactics, and crappy politicians with them.
Ive been noodling about on this for a few days now, maybe couple weeks.
I'm thinking what we are seeing is what I'll call the "rise of the tweeners".
I'm not a boomer. Close, but no boom. I'm most certainly no millennial, got a couple of spawn that are, so have some experience there as well.
So, what we have here, friends, is the bit, nay a boat, of disgust that the tweeners are seeing all around them. The Boomers have taken the greatest, richest, most prosperous and promising Country and system in the history of mankind and summarily effing wrecked it.
We've got a debt that will, frankly, never go away. Ever. We've been slammed HARD, now twice. We do and have worked hard, played by the rules, and got our asses handed to us in the aftermath of 9/11 in 2001, the Tech crash, tech bubble whatever. Then we get our collective feet under us and *poof* a half a decade or so later we have the housing bubble, and BURST. Massive job loss, stocks get smoked yet again, hard earned real wealth disappears, people that otherwise should be enjoying peak earning years are losing homes, moving back in with elderly parents, having to take secondary crap jobs to make ends meet. It's been VERY rough for millions and millions of people. Not to mention the rank corruption of some wall st types, the ponzi scheme guys, politicians lining their pockets and those of their cronies all while wrecking localities, bankrupting municipalities and crushing the people that had devoted a lifetime to making those places work in the first place.
So there's one side of the coin. Who's the candidate that is NOT a part of that crap? Someone picked by George Will or the others in the K Street club? Bush? (though I personally would have been okay with that, grudgingly). Clearly not. Those are the guys that never so much as made it out the gate.
Then further, we turn on our telly, and what do we see in response to some relatively mild adversity? We are INUNDATED with more schit than one can stomach by the kids of those mentioned above- The most self entitled, self absorbed, me, me, lookame generation to ever soil the soil of this great land. They are unapologetically chasing a socialist so perhaps they will give them all the free schit they feel they are entitled to, simply by showing up one day.
If their parents have been staggered by investment loss, home values collapsing, insurance going through the roof, stagnant wages and everything else of late, they want to have Government provide it all instead. And when that doesn't happen? They WHINE. They sit-in. They demand "safe-spaces", they refuse to even entertain opinions that might make them feel uncomfy in their onesies. They somehow have an inherent RIGHT to anything they deem worthy. If you say, "uhhh, no, there's no 'right' to that", you are deemed a "hater" and are to be summarily dismissed and destroyed via social media, utubes and whatever other whining vehicle one can find.
The "Tweeners" have had it. Their not settling in and waiting their "turn" while the Boomers pick another flawed candidate to further the corruption and bloat that is endemic in the DeeCee region. Nor will they sit idly by and be told it's now the millennials turn to try their hand at wrecking things even further in their post adolescent angst.
The Tweeners have basically been skipped, or so you'd think if you look at what is supposed to be the 2 competing groups out there trying to drive policy and politics. One group that KNOWS they have completely screwed the pooch, over and over and over again. Squandering in large measure what the Greatest Generation so generously left them. So in their collective guilt they have doubled down on the awful by producing the Gimme Generation that feels socialism is the answer. The collective gasp of the aging hippies is ALL over academia and our campuses etc. both in the Faculty and the students.
Leaving that big ol donut hole in between. That's the pushback we're seeing from those tired of the "We've always done it this way" gang and the "living wage, even though I've not earned bumpass, and free college" collectivists.
There. That's one big asss nutshell, but it's tough to get it all in a message board post.
The tweeners are tired of all of it. Their turn now, not listening to the wreckers or the whiners any more.
Well, while I guess I chronologically fit into the boomers, I've always played by the rules as well and have always thought hippies smelled bad among other unsavory things.
I'm hoping that the tweeners will carry the day as there appear to be too many idiots among the other groups that think money grows on trees and that somehow, the Federal government will take better care of people than they themselves will - even though that has shown to be an abject failure EVERY time it's been attempted.
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