Screw you Europe.

[crescimento]

I feel like bitching more. Today's "screw you and the horse you rode in on" is for the folks who like to tear down and ridicule American culture & the US government by pointing to some European country as a beacon of morality. Are you serious? I don't mind criticism of this country, the culture, or the government, obviously. But get off your high

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[tyrven]

Funny. I had made a note to myself to write a rant about this exact topic for my journal today (as a result of several conversations I had about this over the last week) but then I came across this entry which pretty much says it all

[crescimento]

well shit, your last two paragraphs cover a post & the points ive been wanting to tackle as an outcome of many draining conversations at work.

i still might have to take a run at it, because the over-simplification of politics i hear coming out of so many people really boils my blood, and ive been recently feeling like doing nothing but getting on an e-soapbox.

[fritz_da_kat]

As long as there are Rush Limbaugh's (and the total nut cases who speak on AM radio) on one side, somebody like Michael Moore on the other side is quite essential. You cannot win with reason alone, you need extremes, innuendos and manipulation.

[tyrven]

I agree with that. What irks me is the self-righteous arrogance of calling conservatives ignorant tools when those people get most of their information from prescription belief sets and Michal Moore "documentaries".

But then I guess that's part of the game, right? Being informed may not popular but believing you're informed is. Which may subsequently be said about having a choice or any real authority over ones life.

[fritz_da_kat]

There's a lot of bad and biased literature on both sides. I remember it was a revelatory moment whan I first started to realize that "my side" used the same methods as "their" side.