tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post9073942988217882710..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Politics, Vitriol and IdiotsAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-87353365417225685042016-07-14T11:43:05.771-04:002016-07-14T11:43:05.771-04:00Cool Suz- Thanks for passing it along!Cool Suz- Thanks for passing it along!Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-35210031567131533602016-07-13T23:08:07.180-04:002016-07-13T23:08:07.180-04:00You brilliantly stated everything I've thought...You brilliantly stated everything I've thought about the GOP since 1992. Sharing on FB. Thanks! Suz dehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17236960359162948178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-71509572254733061792016-07-13T22:34:45.029-04:002016-07-13T22:34:45.029-04:00Thanks, Daddy X! Sometimes I worry that I say too ...Thanks, Daddy X! Sometimes I worry that I say too many personal things here, and I know for a fact that if my husband knew a lot of what I talk about, he'd, as my daughter says, "Flip his shit!" But this appears to be a non-judgmental site, and even though I probably will never meet any of you in reality for face-time, I feel accepted as one of the "regulars". That's good enough for me. Plus I enjoy thinking new thoughts, and many of the posts here have led me to do just that. I'm grateful.Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-37103653853095148442016-07-13T22:27:22.546-04:002016-07-13T22:27:22.546-04:00Thanks Jean- Yes, they do have it all bolloxed up,...Thanks Jean- Yes, they do have it all bolloxed up, don't they? If only they were able to read cause and effect as it actually works, not as they would imagine it to be.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-71008689598656957712016-07-13T22:24:46.394-04:002016-07-13T22:24:46.394-04:00And, even among scores of erotica writers and site...And, even among scores of erotica writers and sites, OGG does stand out as operating somehow on a higher plane. Your informed comments contribute to that sense, Fiona.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-58824283516605993622016-07-13T21:12:01.285-04:002016-07-13T21:12:01.285-04:00Thanks Sacchi- The Republican party in many ways h...Thanks Sacchi- The Republican party in many ways has done an about face when it comes to being an asset to the country. They ran out of planks for a platform long ago, instead busying themselves with obstruction rather than progress.<br />Republicans were a completely different animal before say 1980. That's the year were I put the genesis of this yahoo stand against the obvious tide. I think conservatives saw that they had to either change or become irrelevant. So they dug in their heels, gathered up a bunch of intransigent jerks with extreme views and went with obstruction as a platform. I can almost see a kind of sadness in the eyes of some of the old guard who are truly fiscal conservatives, but true fiscal conservatives would have caught on by now, that these guys are neither fiscally responsible nor conservative. They are radicals in every sense of the word. Just look at the end of the last Republican presidency. And the one before that. Funny how Democrats had to pull the economy out of the weeds both times.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-19001123802083166622016-07-13T15:30:32.211-04:002016-07-13T15:30:32.211-04:00And why are we all the converted? Is it because w...And why are we all the converted? Is it because writers of erotica are, by definition, more open to new ideas? Or more liberal in their thinking? Or more tolerant of differences, and more accepting of the idea that all people have the same equal rights, despite our nationality/skin/sexual/gender/transgender status differences?<br /><br />Or is it because as writers, we are presumably more educated than the average person. I brought my kids up telling them that they would be a part of a small minority in the world: people who use their brains for something other than keeping their ears separated. I told them that we all have to get old, but some choose not to get wiser. That some are happy, in fact determined, to stay as dumb as a rock, if that's what they were as youngsters. And that I would blame Matt Groenig for Bart Simpson, the quintessential proud underachiever, if not for the fact that his show uses more allusions to culture and literature than any kids' show ever, and that his humor is consistent and prescient. <br /><br />"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." Maximilien Robespierre<br /><br />Or is it because most writers are examples of "the starving artists," who work multiple other jobs to be able to afford to scribble/type words that few will pay to read? So we're too poor to be Conservatives?<br /><br />No matter, AMEN to your words, Daddy X! Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-66712650335310242072016-07-13T13:17:20.837-04:002016-07-13T13:17:20.837-04:00Daddy X, you've told it like it is. I can feel...Daddy X, you've told it like it is. I can feel some (a little bit of) respect for fiscal conservatives whose world-view is consistent. What's crazy-making about the U.S. right wing (& its Canadian imitators) is the lack of reason or consistency. They want to abolish a mandatory minimum wage, and they hire nannies, farm workers and other staff from impoverished countries (or send work out to those countries), then vilify all the riffraff that sneaks into the U.S. to find jobs. They offer Christian faith as an alternative to a living wage that could provide the necessities of life or a network of social services (health care, housing, education). They create the perfect economic conditions for crime, then they fill the prisons and claim to promote law and order. And as you say, pointing all this out doesn't discourage the voters who vote for idiots. At least here you are preaching to the converted.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-89264461332632487142016-07-13T11:40:16.656-04:002016-07-13T11:40:16.656-04:00Hey! JP! Good to hear from you.
They've been...Hey! JP! Good to hear from you. <br /><br />They've been so damn flummoxed by their own irrelevance, they're grabbing at every straw to stay in the game. The hitch is those who swallow the incongruous package. What does this say about this country and its citizens? Seems like it's the self-appointed patriots who are trying to tear the country down. Hopefully, attrition will solve the problem soon enough. I don't think millennials have any use for those exclusionary traditions.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-45968177418634415542016-07-13T11:37:23.393-04:002016-07-13T11:37:23.393-04:00You're not alone in this, Daddy X. I took the ...You're not alone in this, Daddy X. I took the easy way out and posted a story from the past that does relate, in a way, to the present, but I very nearly went with how prescient de Tocqueville was, two centuries ago, in his observations about the implications of capitalism and the meme of "rugged individualism".<br /><br />I know it sounds foolish to say "not all Republicans," but I do have some perspective on that. My 96-year-old father still considers himself a Republican, even though he hates what's going on in the party now, and admires President Obama. His opinions are fiscal rather than social, and rooted in having come of age during the Great Depression. He worries about saddling grandchildren and great-grandchildren with debt piled up today. I can't seem to to get though to him the way economics work today, and to tell the truth I'm not sure anybody understands it. He believes in raising taxes on the rich to pay for social services, but can't let go of his life-long attachment to being Republican.Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-63428930812492551212016-07-13T11:24:11.227-04:002016-07-13T11:24:11.227-04:00Yes, it feels like the prologue to a dystopian nov...Yes, it feels like the prologue to a dystopian novel.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-57891358763223005032016-07-13T10:46:12.044-04:002016-07-13T10:46:12.044-04:00Not to mention how much they have gone out of thei...Not to mention how much they have gone out of their way to show complete disrespect for their President, how mired in racism, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion they are - even their newly discussed platform for the next four years advocates gay conversion therapy for minors. They truly are dinosaurs. One can only hope that as flawed as Hillary is, she beats the shit outta Trump in November! Or it's Vancouver, here we come!JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10305127219838784688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-43180218618259874772016-07-13T09:44:55.138-04:002016-07-13T09:44:55.138-04:00It's always a pleasure to read a balanced, non...It's always a pleasure to read a balanced, non-partisan essay... ;^)<br /><br />Personally I can't stop marveling at the current state of affairs. It's like some novel. A novel that I'd label as ridiculously implausible and over-written.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.com