Zen wrote:In fairness to you, BulletMagnet, you are a relentless statist
You know, were someone to take your post at face value, one might wonder if the author could
possibly be so
alarmingly and
willfully limited in his grasp of and inquisitiveness into issues of importance that he hadn't even
considered the possibility that a
significant majority of people,
regardless of their on-paper affiliation, allow for the notion that
some government initiatives can have
positive overall effects on a population,
others might have
negative effects, and many,
many others besides are a complex, often contradictory mixture of the two, and require a good deal of
inquiry and
consideration into their specifics, as well as the
circumstances surrounding them and potential edits or changes on the horizon, for any member of said population to be counted as meaningfully "for" or "against" them.
One might
also wonder if somebody could
possibly believe that opinionating, without apparent exception, from within an ironclad initial assumption that
any and
all government action, no matter
what long-overdue boons it might grant in the process,
must have been enacted with the
express purpose of
eventually denying citizens freedoms guaranteed under existing law, and that it is
always, one would extrapolate, more prudent to throw oneself upon the mercy of
private interests, despite their
incredibly lengthy history of offering those same citizens a selection of
openly self-interested initiatives that could, with a
very generous degree of leniency, be described as
at least as mixed a bag as
anything the government has ever come up with, is a
remotely prudent way to arrive at a "reasoned" opinion concerning
any issue of the day.
At that point, methinks, most people would say to themselves, "No,
nobody could be so furiously self-unaware", and attempt to suss things out again. And then again after that...though by then, of course, the next self-indulgent, conspiratorial rant has emerged, and the process starts over, until the snake oil-touting "voices of truth" are either rightfully tarred and feathered or else finally have the room all to themselves.
Well at least we don't have to pretend she's some kind of hero anymore.
Please - they've been keeping that sorry act up with Saint McCain, in the face of almost
every concrete legislative action he's taken (as opposed to his somber-faced "reservations about" said astoundingly predictable actions) for a
lot longer, and I can
guarantee you that Flake is the next to board that ever-expanding gravy train and play the self-proclaimed "centrist voices" for fools.
has impartially analyzed all of these things and reported on them accurately. Regardless, I'm not a Trump or Republican Party fan. The only positive thing that can really be expected of the government these days is for them to tell squatters that it's time to go home. I understand that Haitians see that America is better than Haiti - we all know that and want to keep it that way. That doesn't mean that we should let them game the system and live here in perpetuity. If you want to go to Haiti or any other dire location and help out, I respect and fully support your decision.
Not to be a quibbling bitch, but immigration and environmental issues are intertwined. The problem is the American lifestyle and inviting millions upon millions to "live a better life" (partake in that American lifestyle) is terrible for the environment locally and globally. Can't live like a standard American, wish for more to do the same and then throw a fit when there's insatiable demand for oil. A David Brower quote that comes to mind: “Conservationists have to win again and again and again; the enemy only has to win once.” ANWR is always on the chopping block because there's a trillion dollars waiting to be sucked out of it and good paying jobs that people want. If people with superhuman endurance want to do the David Brower thing, I say good for them but I think it's a lost cause.
