It Just So Happens, That Everything That Is Profitable, Is Also Patriotic. [View all]

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“You libtard” “Global warming is a hoax, and you’re dumb enough to believe it” “ Your teleprompter, socialist hero” “A trillion dollars on crack whores” “Socialist, communist, Nazi” “So your messiah can redistribute the wealth” “Unions have bankrupted the economy” “The enemy of the producers/job creators” “Tax and spend" "Socialism has never worked” “Liberal hate”

Anyone who has ever debated on Face Book or other social media outlets is probably familiar with these and other variations of these, teabagger gems. Whether the subject is climate change, tax cuts, health care or the economy, certain people almost exclusively answer facts with attacks. “Here is a letter signed by the heads eighteen science organizations, stating that anthropogenic global warming is an undeniable fact.” Response: “Did Al Gore write this to make himself more money, the hypocritical bastard? You lose again!” “Why does government spending on the military create jobs, but spending on education or infrastructure kills them?” Response: “Socialism doesn’t work, dumbass!” Ah, modern politics, Fox News infused.

Because one side of the political divide has entered an alternate reality, it is very hard to have rational debates in the 21st century. The stakes are higher, as always when war or a bad economy are at issue, so emotions naturally run hotter; but now we have the added dimension of talking to people who take their psychotic reality very seriously. If someone had predicted twenty, forty or sixty years ago, that about half of the U.S. population would believe that the biggest, richest and most powerful companies of all time would be held hostage by the world’s scientists, as they create and fix established science for profit, they would have been rightly laughed at. And who would have thought that the same people who look at the energy companies as victims of the world’s crooked scientists, would also see ninety-three percent of a recovery’s wealth go to the top one percent, and fight hard to make that percentage larger?

You can’t beat them because proof and logic are countered with hate, anger, projection, proud ignorance, stupidity, cruelty and cognitive dissonance. Debating the teabaggers/Fox News junkies is like arguing with a random phrase generator. Once in a while, inadvertently funny things appear on the screen, but it's always pointless. After over a decade of this, I’m tired. Throwing in the towel -- they win. And since you can’t beat them, I’ve decided to join them. ‘How will you know what to believe?’ you may ask. Well, that’s the easy part. By observing the trends and national debates I have looked through a window, into their secret world. Here is how one knows what to believe. Follow the money. Take war for instance. War is profitable, so at the beginning of a war you support the troops and the war with equal vigor. Anything less is close to treason. But it costs money to take care of the vets coming home from war, so now it’s patriotic to ignore them. It costs money to clean up pollution, so now those who try to keep our air and water clean should become objects of derision. If it’s profitable, it is patriotic. If it is profitable, it is to be fought for. There, simple as that! Now all my beliefs will just happen to fall in line with the multi-national corporations' wish list. Nothing strange about that.

Now, it’s off to the shower for some reason.

Yeah, and I think I’ll need a drink, too.