The Democrats have no idea how badly they will lose.
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Political analysis and commentary is definitely not your forte. Suggest you reserve that for Josh and the others.
Just watch, and then talk to me after the election.
We will all watch.
The aforementioned still stands.
I’m sure it does still stand, as I do by my statements.
Including:
“We’re a country of morons and trash.”
Of course, you are entitled to your opinions, and the freedom of their expression. It’s your platform.
However, if this be the sum total of what you have been able to glean from your travels, regarding the nature and character of our citizenry, you can well understand why you give me cause to observe that political analysis and commentary are not your forte.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it is quite the truth. We live in very sad times indeed. If you Sir don’t recognize this fact you are simply avoiding the obvious. Our National IQ is decreasing, this is a fact, not opinion.
Most of this country are absolute morons. 1/3 of D.C. is illiterate. Last time I checked that is the Capital.
I can understand if you don’t like me or my presentation, none of that really matters though. I am 100% correct in my assessment.
Am I happy about it? Of course not. I love this country. I simply prefer to deal with reality over wishful thinking.
My disappointment lies more in the inability of this society to deal with the multitude of social issues which make learning such a difficult task for many, and opportunity so difficult to gain.
If reality is what disturbs you then creative and constructive solutions to the issues should be your pursuit,lending your voice,and support to those candidates and programs which offer promise.Illiteracy does not define one’s mental capacity to learn, solely one’s inability to read.
By painting, with a broad brush, this nation as “a country of morons and trash”,you lose respect for your argument and your cause.
I draw no conclusions with respect to your likeabilty. My observations are based soley upon my reflections upon your words.
That you assert yourself to being 100% correct in your assessment of the situation simply puts you in the majority of one. Hardly an advantageous position for persuasive argument.
The Congress, as presently constituted thanks to the last election, did not become so due to the actions of a nation of morons. THAT majority perceived a need for a change and effected one.
If,indeed,the Democratic Party fails to heed the message and so rise to the occasion, as you assert they will, perhaps the term “morons” will appropriately apply in their case. A proper context.
We will all watch, with interest, as the future unfolds.
As I stated,regardless of the make up of Congress. We are a country of morons. We care as a nation more about Anna Nicole Smith than anything else. The system is completely corrupt on every level. I feel for you because you obviously care deeply which is admirable. Unfortunately,your passion will not change things.
Your point of view is, of course, your own, for the purpose of this dialog.
Do not judge the entire nation by what the media finds necessary to pay the rent. It does not always adopt a nobel social agenda.
It certainly boggles one’s mind that athletes can demand millions in return for capturing an audience to whom vendors can market shaving cream while a host of societies needs yet go unmet.
Yet historians will tell you that our contemporary ‘games’ find their roots in institutions like the Roman Coliseum which, in the face of all it’s barbarity, was a center for business and commerce in that society.
And yes, there are a significant number of people out there who need to get a life. I have my ownpersonal issues with ‘reality shows’ and projects like ‘American Idol’, ‘The Bachelor’, ‘America’s Top Model’, ‘Entertainment Tonight’ and the like. I refer to that stuff as ‘idiot fodder’. Unfortunately, too many people are bored with their lives, their jobs, their families, and need to escape. The phenomenon has ever been present, only the forms change.
Consider for a moment your own celebrity and your involvement in it. In some respects are you not part of this madness at times?
On “Washington Hotlist”, there are contributors who obviously do not share your pessimism. They are energized and poised to attempt change. As well, there are many thousands of individuals like them across the length and breadth of this country who, in their own small way have made a difference in improving the quality of our lives as a whole.
Sadly, every objective measure supports Loren’s contention that we are, by and large, not only an illiterate but an intellectually challenged nation.
A large percentage of our adults cannot read well enough to understand simple forms and instructions. Too many of our high school and college students don’t know the name of the country that borders the U.S. on the north. Nor can they identify, within 50 years, when our own Civil War took place. And then there’s their appalling ignorance of basic science.
Study after study shows that our students do far worse on basic intelligence and information measurements than the students of most European nations, as well as China and Japan.
And let’s not forget that the same voters who FINALLY put the Democrats in charge last November also elected George Bush not once, but TWICE.
That should give them permanent possession of the Idiot Cup.
And that, unfortunately, is not mere opinion; it\’s reality.
That’s basically what I meant to say, Steve is not quite as rough around the edge as I am.
This is not about Republican or Democratic. It is the sad state of the American Constituency as a whole.
You weren’t rough around the edges at all. You made your point effectively and clearly, and the facts are on your side.
“…statistics that show the U.S. graduates about 70,000 engineers a year, while India and China graduate five and eight times that number, respectively…JANUARY 10, 2006 BusinessWeek.com, Viewpoint By Vivek Wadhwa ‘Filling the Engineering Gap’…”
Mr. Feldman has hit the proverbial “nail on the head” and driven it in with one swing. EDUCATION and RELIGION are the keys to a progressive civilization.
“Tuesday, November 28, 2006 BY JAN MURPHY Of The Patriot-News… The American system is no longer the best in the world,” said state Rep. Geanie Morrison of Texas, who served on a National Conference of State Legislatures Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education.
“Other nations in recent years have made access to and affordability of post-secondary education a priority, while in America, states tend to regard higher education funding and policy as an afterthought, she and others said in an afternoon conference call on the “Transforming Higher Education: National Imperative, State Responsibility” report.
The nation ranks 16th among 27 countries with democratic governments when looking at the percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds who complete college. For comparison, its percentage of 35- to 64-year-olds holding college degrees ranks second, behind Canada.
“As our older population leaves the work force, we are not even going to be able to replace those members with who we have graduating at this time,” Morrison said…”
Mr. Feldman echoed the naked truth uttered by Alan Bloom some 15 years ago, in his book “The Closing of the American Mind.” He described, in his book (paraphrasing and embellishing), a youth obsessed with his music and earphones. A youth, oblivious to the relevance of the world around him. He, does not entertain the slightest notion regarding the fact that he stands on the shoulders of all who toiled, sacrificed, and went before him. His “education” isn’t about something greater than himself. It’s about, himself and what he needs or wants.
Entitlement and enjoyment is all that he knows, while he twiddles with the portable, solid state, audio reproduction device pumping out endless heavy metal arrangements that occupy his consumer mentality, inbetween switching a television tuner remotely and eating twinkie after twinkie in his dad’s lazyboy.
Not only is America getting dumber, we’re getting sicker. We now have an epedimc of obesity; contributing to higher rates of mortality, morbidity, and higher healthcare costs and an increase of social economic buden.
Perhaps, we should’nt be so hard on the boy. Its no mystery, if he grows and grows angry. So he becomes, disillusioned, and revengeful, when he wakes up and realizes, having not graduated highschool, he hasn’t secured employment enough to sustain his vision of the future and adequately feed his child and pregnant girlfriend.
What now? ‘Join a gang, take what you want, you’re entitled? Forget, the rule of law, self discipline, marital obligations , hard work, reverance for truth and the source of love and goodness?’….Move back home with Mom/Dad/Grandparents?
I’m constantly hearing about American education and educators costing more and more money. Yet, our nation becomes dumber and dumber. Why is it, that Asian students that immigrate here thrive in our educational system? Could it be, because their parents are spanking their ass when they don’t practice discipline and respect in school?! Its that simple!
When you have a bugeoning society with a victim and entitlement mentality, the parents want the school/government to raise their kids, for free of course, for them. Another entitlement! However, those same parents want to contiue to bear more children and reserve the right to bring litigation against the schools if they think they can make a buck.
In my opinion, a large swath, not all, of America has become geocentric, narcissistic, and secular, just as Mr. Feldmen suggests. Their values are often distorted and misplaced. They have lost their sense of right and wrong and see no shame in their retrograde behaviors. They think its all new! Now, they’re passing it all on to another generation. This nation is sorrowfully cicleing the international competition drain.
As our citizenry becomes increasingly mediocre and ignorant, as Mr. Bloom and Mr. Feldmen assert, from a lack of education, they are susceptible to the selfish corporations and individuals that would pray on them and make them slaves, again.
�If the American People ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency…the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.�Thomas Jefferson
Respect and appreciation for Education and a Godly Religion that inspires a yearning for truth, beauty, and goodness is the way from retrogression to progression in the evolution of civilization.
As for the Democrats loosing? I’m not so sure Mr. Feldman is right about that. Presently the momentum is not in his direction on the issue. I fear, for the same reason he states they will lose, that the Democrats could very well win the next presedential election. And, subsequently control the congress and the whitehouse for another 50 year dynasty of debt and defeat.
As for moronic behavior, it seems to afflict all parties concerned to one degree or another.
We’ll see improvements when our government leaders and corporate administrations are motivated by their love and fidelity of public service in contradistinction to their betrayal of the public trust and overwhelming worship of profits.
Well said, all!
Now I offer you the argument of English as the common (official) language of this nation.
There are no incentives for anyone,from anywhere to acquire a working knowledge of expressive and receptive English these days. and governmental agencies are the first to facilitate this,replete with bilingual services beyond the pale.
This nation has historically been one of cultural diversity, united by a common language which all newcomers were anxious to learn. They knew that it was the key to unlock the door.
No longer.
Yup, it’s a travesty.
Well, D__ and Loren, a common language is still the key.
I’ve just returned from an alternative reality, and that’s what I was told there.;-)
…for sure it wasn’t the Oval Office on this one!
Why don’t we just sterilize the “morons and trash”?
The American political system is corrupt and many Americans are apathetic as long as they have their bread and circuses. What, if anything, will push Americans over the edge?
All great civilizations come to an end, and America is certainly on the decline. Fighting two simultaneous wars of attrition (and possibly a third) is a sure way to hasten a country’s decline.
Heckuva job Georgie!
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