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I don't have what I want because of the corrupt EU.
I don't have what I want because of the mean black president.
I don't have what I want because of NAFTA.
I don't have what I want because of the big banks.
I don't have what I want because of people who shouldn't be here.
Funny how those who think that blame everyone and everything . . . . . . . EXCEPT for themselves.
Rex
(65,616 posts)those who think
TDale313
(7,820 posts)No systemic issues here. Btw, huge ducking difference between scapegoating and pointing out the fact that there is a huge level of wealth inequality that must be addressed, and that there has been massive wealth distribution upwards for decades.
840high
(17,196 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)We must try to educate people about the manipulation.
Autumn
(45,066 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Autumn
(45,066 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Although, even in high school, I could not manage to sprout the latest trend for fall--pimples! http://www.elle.com/fashion/trend-reports/
At the time, I thought myself fortunate, but I guess I would just be considered so 2015 now, aka, reason 42,376 I have no desire to go back to high school.
demmiblue
(36,845 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)RKP5637
(67,107 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)This OP exemplifies it quite well.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)RB TexLa
(17,003 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)So if you're driving along, obeying the traffic signals, and some drunk driver runs a red light and t-bones your car and you get a broken neck and spend months in the hospital and go bankrupt dealing with it, then you would blame yourself? Because that was a thing that happened to you? What if it happened to your spouse? Would you tell them what happened was their own personal responsibility?
Personally, I'd blame the drunk driver.
Although I can understand your making this statement, since it supports your ideology, which seems to be quite important to you. There is a word for that kind of thinking... let me think... oh yeah: Ideologue.
This is all just a game for some.
swhisper1
(851 posts)only the struggling are waking up to that today. If you dont fight a bully, you end up being one and you rally for the next bully
onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...how many millions of people have become personally irresponsible over the last 30 years.
It's like there has been a huge upsurge of folks who just won't work.
It can't be that there are fewer jobs available in the first place.
It can't be that there has been a huge Swoosh! of money to the upper echelons, money that was taken out of the hides of the middle class.
It can't be that people work harder for less return than was the case 30 years ago.
It can't be that young people go into crushing debt just to get a college education, thus having to forego buying that first house until... well, maybe never.
Nope. Can't be any of those things. It's just a sudden rash of millions upon millions of people who are not personally responsible. Yep, that's the ticket.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)It's "Luddite" to question the end game of pure Capitalism?
It's "Luddite" to wonder how a debt-strapped millennial becomes a producing member of a consumer-based economy with a sorry underpaying job market and a mortgage-level student loan anvil tied to their backs before they even start?
Geeeeeeeeeez, we're in deep shit if that's the case . . . . might as well just sell out to the neo-Fascists and be done with it.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 25, 2016, 07:12 PM - Edit history (1)
Just like labor gravitated to industries. And threshers. And assembly lines. And radiology labs. And research and development. And colleges. And post graduate degrees.
Labor doesn't gravitate when it's been replaced and/or cancelled out of the economic picture for costing too much or not being an event-driven algorithm.
Blue, white, doesn't matter what collar. If the ones that run us could offshore or automate every position except their own, they would.
Libertarian/Republican economics are a time-tested fail no matter what party champions them.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)is NOT a "false equivalency"..
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Iggo
(47,552 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Iggo
(47,552 posts)RKP5637
(67,107 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)doc03
(35,328 posts)that passed "Right To Work" laws for one thing.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)perhaps your balme should be afiixed to those that treat the left and right with equal scorn
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)lapislzi
(5,762 posts)I got mine, you're on your own.
I'm OK, the hell with you.
________ (fill in the blank) benefits me, so your concerns are unimportant.
Or...worst of all, maybe, "I got nothing, so you shouldn't have anything either."