This past weekend Americans were collectively supposed to be thankful, though to whom whe should give thanks is not something polite people are supposed to discuss. The country whose motto is "In God We Trust" now has a President who, not content with bringing the USA to the brink of foreclosure, refused even to mention God in his Thanksgiving Day address.
Perhaps President Obama is right. We should have changed that motto years ago to something more accurate like "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" or "Real Men Don't Apologize."
This Thanksgiving I was more worried than thankful. No, not about the economy or the rising costs of American imperialism. I am worried about the quality of politicians we are going to face in the coming years. When I look at the squabbling flock of political turkeys, strutting and bullying for a higher place in the pecking order, I wonder: When Gingrich, Perry, Romney, Obama, and Biden are gone, where will the next generation of complete jerks come from? Politicians today are jerks of such magnitude that, if the government does not step in to create a program, we may not be able to maintain this high level.
After all, a political commentator has to have something to write about, and it cannot be all budget battles and green technology. Real politics is in the gutter or, to continue the barnyard metaphor, in the pigstye. Do today's students--all those class presidents, young Republicans and young Democrats and protest organizers--have the complete self-absorbing greed and lust for power on which the entire American political system depends?
A few minutes of research into this deep matter are very reassuring. Young Americans today are very promising jerks in training, destined for the heights of jerkitude scaled by my own generation, the obnoxious kids who chanted with the Doors: "We want the world and we want it now!" (They got it, and I hope they're satisfied.)
Where to begin? In England you have the spoiled illiterate lower class brat who wrote an insulting note to the victims he robbed. In America, we have spoiled illiterate middle class brats who go to college and cannot understand why anyone gets disturbed by the insulting and obscene comments they post on Facebook or tweet to friends. In Kansas, a high school senior tweeted an insulting and off-color message about Governor Sam Brownback. She was amazed when the principal, who received a complaint from the Brownback staff, asked her to apologize. She has refused.
Her college student sister goes the teenie one better and says to make public something on Twitter is an invasion of privacy--as if the act of putting messages out on Twitter or Facebook did not constitute publication. The little tweeter says as a Democrat she disagrees with the Republican governor's policies on aid to education. When did teenagers get the idea that they had a right to an opinion? Apparently from their parents who backed up the rude little girl. In the end, the cowardly Republican governor (a redundant phrase) apologized for his staff's over-reaction in making a complaint.
The staffers certainly did over-react: Unless you are a parent, teacher, or minister, you are better off ignoring anything said by children today. Nonetheless, the governor had done nothing for which he had to apologize.
Thanksgiving weekends are not a time when one can be grateful for being American. All over the United States, chain-stores open early, some on Friday morning, some at midnight even, and some on Thanksgiving Day itself. Millions of consumerists stand in line--some camp out for days--looking for bargain prices on video games, flat screen television sets, computers, and whatever other useless junk that is made in China to corrupt the already addled American mind.
We call it Black Friday, because it is the day when retail sales outlets are supposed to go into the black, but it should be because on this day, every year, the dark depths of the post-modern post-Christian American character are revealed.
Every year there are injuries and even fatalities during the holiday shopping season--many retailers now deliberately avoid the word Christmas. It's so A.D., you know, and we are not into CE. This year a young woman at a Walmart in California pepper-sprayed 20 shopping competitors who were Hell-bent on grabbing an X-Box console. She has so far not been charged, and the police have limited their statements to saying she was an "aggressive shopper." If she did what is alleged, she is guilty of assault and not aggressive shopping.
Not to be outdone by rude consumerists, the equally rude Marxists of the Occupy movement invaded Walmarts in several cities in order to interrupt the lives of strangers on this most sacred of American holidays. There were gunshots in North Carolina, a shooting in Northern California, and in Arkansas (apparently) a brawl that broke out when shoppers rushed a display of $2 waffle makers.
In Pennsylvania, girls, some accompanied by their mothers, got into a fight over yoga pants. There is no point in asking what kind of mother would allow her daughter to enter into a store that specializes in making women look like tramps. This is America, where even pre-teens are got up to look like streetwalkers and pornstars.
Most Black Friday incidents are not reported. As Americans we have come to expect rudeness, insults, and even physical intimidation when we go into public places. That is one of the reasons I now shop either on line or in little stores where I know the owners.
Public rudeness and violence are not restricted to the season we used to call Advent and has now been renamed "There are only 30 more shopping days till Christmas." Last Summer many American cities experienced an outbreak of flash mobs--bands of teen punks who use social networking to coordinate their attacks on public places. The cold weather has dampened some of their youthful spirits, but so long as there are heated shoping malls, we can expect the rudeness and bad manners to continue.
So this is why we do not have to worry about running out of jerks for any time in the foreseeable future. We already have a government program to insure a steady supply of highclass jerks. The public schools of this great country constitute a vast training camp that graduates tens of millions of ignorant spoiled brats every year. If the ill-behaved Kansas teenie ever runs for office, she has a ready-made constituency of people just like her.
Yes, there are many millions of quite nice Americans, just as there are millions of quite nice Russians. Unfortunately, Russia is defined in the European mind by the gangster bankers and nasty nouveaux-riches that are spending the loot they have ripped off their country on buying up and ruining beautiful places. Similarly, America is increasingly defined by the growing class of louts that can give Britain's yobbos a run for their money.
Source fleming.dailymail.co.uk/
Perhaps President Obama is right. We should have changed that motto years ago to something more accurate like "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" or "Real Men Don't Apologize."
This Thanksgiving I was more worried than thankful. No, not about the economy or the rising costs of American imperialism. I am worried about the quality of politicians we are going to face in the coming years. When I look at the squabbling flock of political turkeys, strutting and bullying for a higher place in the pecking order, I wonder: When Gingrich, Perry, Romney, Obama, and Biden are gone, where will the next generation of complete jerks come from? Politicians today are jerks of such magnitude that, if the government does not step in to create a program, we may not be able to maintain this high level.
After all, a political commentator has to have something to write about, and it cannot be all budget battles and green technology. Real politics is in the gutter or, to continue the barnyard metaphor, in the pigstye. Do today's students--all those class presidents, young Republicans and young Democrats and protest organizers--have the complete self-absorbing greed and lust for power on which the entire American political system depends?
A few minutes of research into this deep matter are very reassuring. Young Americans today are very promising jerks in training, destined for the heights of jerkitude scaled by my own generation, the obnoxious kids who chanted with the Doors: "We want the world and we want it now!" (They got it, and I hope they're satisfied.)
Where to begin? In England you have the spoiled illiterate lower class brat who wrote an insulting note to the victims he robbed. In America, we have spoiled illiterate middle class brats who go to college and cannot understand why anyone gets disturbed by the insulting and obscene comments they post on Facebook or tweet to friends. In Kansas, a high school senior tweeted an insulting and off-color message about Governor Sam Brownback. She was amazed when the principal, who received a complaint from the Brownback staff, asked her to apologize. She has refused.
Her college student sister goes the teenie one better and says to make public something on Twitter is an invasion of privacy--as if the act of putting messages out on Twitter or Facebook did not constitute publication. The little tweeter says as a Democrat she disagrees with the Republican governor's policies on aid to education. When did teenagers get the idea that they had a right to an opinion? Apparently from their parents who backed up the rude little girl. In the end, the cowardly Republican governor (a redundant phrase) apologized for his staff's over-reaction in making a complaint.
The staffers certainly did over-react: Unless you are a parent, teacher, or minister, you are better off ignoring anything said by children today. Nonetheless, the governor had done nothing for which he had to apologize.
Thanksgiving weekends are not a time when one can be grateful for being American. All over the United States, chain-stores open early, some on Friday morning, some at midnight even, and some on Thanksgiving Day itself. Millions of consumerists stand in line--some camp out for days--looking for bargain prices on video games, flat screen television sets, computers, and whatever other useless junk that is made in China to corrupt the already addled American mind.
We call it Black Friday, because it is the day when retail sales outlets are supposed to go into the black, but it should be because on this day, every year, the dark depths of the post-modern post-Christian American character are revealed.
Every year there are injuries and even fatalities during the holiday shopping season--many retailers now deliberately avoid the word Christmas. It's so A.D., you know, and we are not into CE. This year a young woman at a Walmart in California pepper-sprayed 20 shopping competitors who were Hell-bent on grabbing an X-Box console. She has so far not been charged, and the police have limited their statements to saying she was an "aggressive shopper." If she did what is alleged, she is guilty of assault and not aggressive shopping.
Not to be outdone by rude consumerists, the equally rude Marxists of the Occupy movement invaded Walmarts in several cities in order to interrupt the lives of strangers on this most sacred of American holidays. There were gunshots in North Carolina, a shooting in Northern California, and in Arkansas (apparently) a brawl that broke out when shoppers rushed a display of $2 waffle makers.
In Pennsylvania, girls, some accompanied by their mothers, got into a fight over yoga pants. There is no point in asking what kind of mother would allow her daughter to enter into a store that specializes in making women look like tramps. This is America, where even pre-teens are got up to look like streetwalkers and pornstars.
Most Black Friday incidents are not reported. As Americans we have come to expect rudeness, insults, and even physical intimidation when we go into public places. That is one of the reasons I now shop either on line or in little stores where I know the owners.
Public rudeness and violence are not restricted to the season we used to call Advent and has now been renamed "There are only 30 more shopping days till Christmas." Last Summer many American cities experienced an outbreak of flash mobs--bands of teen punks who use social networking to coordinate their attacks on public places. The cold weather has dampened some of their youthful spirits, but so long as there are heated shoping malls, we can expect the rudeness and bad manners to continue.
So this is why we do not have to worry about running out of jerks for any time in the foreseeable future. We already have a government program to insure a steady supply of highclass jerks. The public schools of this great country constitute a vast training camp that graduates tens of millions of ignorant spoiled brats every year. If the ill-behaved Kansas teenie ever runs for office, she has a ready-made constituency of people just like her.
Yes, there are many millions of quite nice Americans, just as there are millions of quite nice Russians. Unfortunately, Russia is defined in the European mind by the gangster bankers and nasty nouveaux-riches that are spending the loot they have ripped off their country on buying up and ruining beautiful places. Similarly, America is increasingly defined by the growing class of louts that can give Britain's yobbos a run for their money.
Source fleming.dailymail.co.uk/
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