(08-07-2023, 09:26 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(08-07-2023, 08:53 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Nah. We understand you perfectly. You are comfortable and ignorant. It's the only way you can say with a straight face that there are tens of millions of Americans who could represent us in this broken and corrupted system. No one can challenge it without being destroyed.

So, you get those (on both sides) who are looking for the fighter who will break themselves while throwing themselves against the bulwark created by our elites, and you, the person too comfortable to acknowledge the reality that our government has been overtaken by rich, powerful people who are slowly stripping us of our power and freedoms. You wallow in your willful ignorance and wear it like a badge of honor. It's a good thing you like the mud.

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The thing I can't wrap my brain around is the idea that the entire cultural left used to understand that the elites were a problem. Now you're their little lapdogs. Look around? What do they ever change about themselves? They just change our cultural values in ways that make us more useful to them.

The bolded is this pathetic little mantra you lot have adopted rather than face the reality that the world is passing you by and progressive thought is winning the day. 

You are the willfully ignorant

You choose to believe theory over plain fact. 

You choose to invent narratives to explain failures by the politicians you vote for. 

Your stupid assumption that the left are somehow ignorant of money and power structure is yet another idiotic attempt to explain away your inability to come to terms with the fact that the world around you is changing and your antiquated ideals are being left in the dust. If you think the left isn't fighting against the elites - you aren't paying attention outside of your little orbit.  At all. 

Our freedom and power are not being stripped away. We're simply evolving beyond your world view. 
All of this angst and lashing out you display toward me and the left in general is probably a product of your refusal to accept this reality. 

I've never seen such massive and widespread delusion among a group of voters when their guy just simply lost the election.

For the record, I did not vote for Trump. Nevertheless, I see very clearly the centralization of power in this country into the federal government, so yes, progressive thought is winning and those so called "antiquated ideals" including federalism, independence, self reliance, and autonomy are being reduced to just a memory (and a despised one at that). This is not societal evolution, it's devolution back to the time before the enlightenment when one class was to rule while all the rest exist for their pleasure and support. It's not conspiracy theory to see how our government has been subverted; first they made you "educated", then they made you dependent, now they make you subservient. We get it, you love Big Brother; you just have to accept that many of us will not ever do so.

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