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US political discourse is so corrupted and disconnected from reality that it resembles the interior life of a schizophrenic, crack-addicted gun nut with severe
by Estragon 16y ago
US political discourse is so corrupted and disconnected from reality that it resembles the interior life of a schizophrenic, crack-addicted gun nut with severe weight and credit-card problems. Nothing substantial will change until a forum for sane discourse emerges, and that's going to take a revolution of some kind. Not necessarily a violent one, but definitely involving radical political change, on the order of the rise of the Republican party under Lincoln. I don't see any such revolution on the horizon, but it's possible.
I am an outsider living in the US, and the hope for change you're expressing makes me think of how the mother of the crack-addicted gun nut schizophrenic must relate to him. To an outsider, he's hopeless, but for anyone with some stake in his happiness, every small move in the right direction is cause for hope, no matter how irrational that might be to others.
- jonnycoder 16y agoYou lost me at "gun nut".
- Estragon 16y agoHave you seen the US defense budget?
- CWuestefeld 16y agoI think you're myopic enough about your position that you're failing to understand the objection. jonnycoder wasn't saying that the USA isn't belligerent and aggressive. If I may be forgiven for putting words in his mouth, I think his point was that you're using for a negative connotation a characterization of a person who is serious about defending himself and his family while seeing that the authorities do not (and cannot) do so, and who believes in the freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution. Your projection of aspersions on such a person is likely to force that person into defending himself, and hence disagree with your position purely as a defensive stance.
- Estragon 16y agoThanks for the explanation. I meant someone who's obsessed with guns.