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    "By an accident of birth, I fall into the White Guy category. To keep this on a positive note, let’s call it my brand. And that means that if other people with my outward characteristics do dumb-ass things, it reflects on my brand." Scott Adams

    White conservative Americans have become an embarrassment. I know that's not politically correct, but face it folks we are starting to look like a nation of idiots. Think about that for a minute. Our white conservative Congress is voting again to repeal healthcare, you know healthcare that is slavery. Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to make America Somalia, no need to obey federal laws - articles of Confederation redux. Kansas Governor Brownback bought into the insane idea idea that reducing taxes brings forth magic. Now the state is a mess. Kansas is just one state run by a white conservative republican. Was Brownback alive in 2008 and 2009 or was he lost in some imaginary supply side universe. Laffer is so appropriate a name.

    What's the matter with white America is the question of the day. Recently a group of white militia conservatives took over a garage sized nature center in Oregon because they have the mental acuity of a spoiled five year old. Give children guns and they soon think they are warriors. Reminds you of a five year old who won't come in for dinner. One wonders what the idiots will do when tourist season arrives, maybe they'll give 'take over nation' demonstrations one garage at a time. If another American had asked for this land it would be welfare, how is it America belongs to the select few white Americans? The nation's Indians should tell them they're way late.

    Then we have Maine Governor Paul LePage, of course everyone knows racism is alive and well in America, that is except white Americans, they think they are colorblind, try really hard to forget their narratives. Didn't a Marxist Kenyan president change all that. One can only wonder at the level of insanity when a woman becomes president. She is white, will that help? Are you kidding me. Anyone watch the Benghazi hearing. If hate required a face there were plenty of opportunities. Can you spell just plan nuts. And Deez even got some votes.

    Anyone watching the republican debates would marvel at the level of dialogue, when it isn't the same reduce taxes on corporations and the wealthy and the economic genie will appear, they are upping each other like some chest pumping pretend wrestler, bomb em all. Bomb em all, bomb em all, is it fear, paranoia, everything has become Munich. Have any of them served in the military, had they maybe a rational thought would arrive.

    Have you seen the crowds at Trump rallies, cheering the blond platitude, an inherited real-estate developer, now the darling of white conservative America. Trump engages in so much hyperbole, historians and sane media journalists now require therapy. While Nazi references are badly overused by these conservative republicans, recently a Muslim woman stood up and was escorted to door, that wasn't the proper sign of allegiance to a mountebank wearing a trite slogan. Remember the Gay soldier. Booing in this crowd is a substitute for thought.

    And this comedy of white conservative sloganeering would just be funny until someone like Governor Rick Snyder poisons the people of Flint, Michigan to save a buck. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn't just dumb, he wants all the citizens of Wisconsin on an equal level. Why fund education when anyone who isn't as extreme as you is just not conservative enough. How many teachers does Governor Rick Perry want to fire, he can't remember that either. And then there is Rick Scott. Any need to go on.

    Have you noticed none of the republican governors support education. This would be funny until you look at the warriors in Oregon, or the tea party signs to keep government out of their medicare, or poisoned water, add tornadoes and floods which only matter if you happen to be in one. Education is power, it is feared by the powerful for it focuses attention on cause rather than aimless finger pointing. Pay close attention to Governors and candidates who listen the likes of the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson.

    "If we held the White House, taxes would be lower, spending slowed and the military strengthened...." Governor Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina responds to the SOTU. She forgot 'freedom.' If a listener read history they know how often these same words are used, and they'd know too how meaningless they are. Can you spell voodoo or oligarchy.

    Idiocy mixed with fear is so dangerous a mindset, anyone find those WMDs or witness the wonderful spread of democracy in the Middle East? If you have, let the rest of America know. So long as big money buffoons, corporate lobbies, think tanks that do anything but think exist, militiamen armed with AK15s isn't a reality show, it is reality.

    It would give solace to the sane American if after President Obama's term, sanity in America returned, but given the House under 'missing a heart Ryan' is still voting to end slavery, aka healthcare, no hope is in sight. It has to be clear now, elect a conservative white governor and your state gets dumber, you lose healthcare, your environment is polluted, and your state goes into massive debt. All the while they throw out, weakness, appeasement, surrender, Chamberlain, again and again, is there any hope white America.

    If anyone has an idea on how sane white Americans, who still believe in a land of promise, inclusion, fairness, and accomplishment can separate themselves from dumb white America. Please, please let America know. By the way, suggested forehead tattoos, would help but people do occasionally change. Imagine for a minute the Donald's audience cheering bigotry, slogans waving, 'make America great again', Palin rambling, dissenting Americans booed, and you witness the absurd theater white conservative republicans have created. And so it goes....

    Source Information:

    http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1368794...hite-guy-brand
    http://www.alternet.org/story/150392...ors_in_america
    http://www.salon.com/2016/01/14/than...movement_look/
    http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156038
    https://aeon.co/opinions/why-bullshi...aughing-matter


    Reading

    'Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class' by Ian Haney López
    'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman
    'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein
    'It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism' by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
    'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong' by James W. Loewen
    'Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free' by Charles P. Pierce
    'Liberty Under Siege: American Politics, 1976-1988' by Walter Karp
    'Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming' by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway
    'American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-1960' by William L. O'Neill
    'A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001' by William L. O'Neill
    'Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s' by William L. O'Neill


    'The American conservative has become a sort of trained bumpkin, they outsource their work and pay them nothing and he unconsciously blames government when she doesn't blame some racial or ethnic group. Years of training have made them puppets. One could say corporate puppets, the corporations play them like children. Has the conservative always been this naive a tool of others? Maybe they have, for power knows all you need to do is have an enemy to occupy them. When it isn't government it's progress, or for some conservatives it's another human being of difference. I guess when one's mind is empty of education or history, it gives comfort to know satan caused all that is wrong. Satan can be whatever the powers that be tell them. No need to name names' mc5


    And I give you this idiot to add to the point. http://www.sltrib.com/home/3441922-155/story.html
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    'Can America's political discourse get any cruder?'

    "Forgotten by the fevered crowd was the supposedly bedrock conservative principle that people are responsible for their own actions, and that it's time to stop blaming society."

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/neil-ma...alin-1.3416452


    Conservatives must now face the monster they have created after sixty years of disparaging government, why all of a sudden would they think their idea of government is better than another. Nations deteriorate from the inside, the destruction of America started in earnest with Ronald Reagan and the rise of oligarchy. Sixty years on, an education that excluded diversity, reality, science, history, and every other American value has had great impact. Mirrors are obviously missing at the National Review and other conservative locations. The scary thing is, Trump and Cruz could actually be more extreme and they'd still appeal to the conservative American. Doubters check Iowa voting. The apologetics begin.

    http://www.theamericanconservative.c...-conservatism/
    http://www.theamericanconservative.c...tism-vs-trump/
    http://www.theamericanconservative.c...rumps-chances/
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    Embarrassing or even criminal?

    "This Was Done, Like So Many Things These Days, So the Rich Could Get a Big Tax Break. When Governor Snyder took office in 2011, one of the first things he did was to get a multi-billion dollar tax break passed by the Republican legislature for the wealthy and for corporations. But with less tax revenues, that meant he had to start cutting costs. So, many things – schools, pensions, welfare, safe drinking water – were slashed. Then he invoked an executive privilege to take over cities (all of them majority black) by firing the mayors and city councils whom the local people had elected, and installing his cronies to act as “dictators” over these cities. Their mission? Cut services to save money so he could give the rich even more breaks. That’s where the idea of switching Flint to river water came from. To save $15 million! It was easy. Suspend democracy. Cut taxes for the rich. Make the poor drink toxic river water. And everybody’s happy."

    'Except those who were poisoned in the process. All 102,000 of them. In the richest country in the world.'

    http://michaelmoore.com/10FactsOnFlint/
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    Great fiction.

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    Remind me the purpose of APP ?
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    Remind me the purpose of APP ?
    Midcan is trolling and I think that skirts the purpose of APP.

    You know what's embarrassing? Pooping yourself in the check out line at Wallmart. Now that's embarrassing.

    Having different political beliefs from someone else is not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Midcan is trolling and I think that skirts the purpose of APP.

    You know what's embarrassing? Pooping yourself in the check out line at Wallmart. Now that's embarrassing.

    Having different political beliefs from someone else is not.
    A troll, oh I'm so hurt....hahahaha. Pooping and beliefs, so large a difference. Well someone uses another word in OP linked below, take your pick.

    “I love the poorly educated.” Donald Trump

    'Trump's rise proves we're full of loud, illiterate and credulous people — and he's a mirror of them'

    "I hate to have to say it, but the conclusion stares us in the face: We’re a stupid country, full of loud, illiterate and credulous people. Trump has marched straight to the nomination without offering anything like a platform or a plan. With a vocabulary of roughly a dozen words – wall, Mexicans, low-energy, loser, Muslims, stupid, China, negotiate, deals, America, great, again – he’s bamboozled millions of Americans. And it’s not just splenetic conservatives supporting Trump or your garden-variety bigots (although that’s the center of his coalition), it’s also independents, pro-choice Republicans, and a subset of Reagan Democrats."

    http://www.salon.com/2016/02/24/amer...ion_of_idiots/


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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    A troll, oh I'm so hurt....hahahaha. Pooping and beliefs, so large a difference. Well someone uses another word in OP linked below, take your pick.

    “I love the poorly educated.” Donald Trump

    'Trump's rise proves we're full of loud, illiterate and credulous people — and he's a mirror of them'

    "I hate to have to say it, but the conclusion stares us in the face: We’re a stupid country, full of loud, illiterate and credulous people. Trump has marched straight to the nomination without offering anything like a platform or a plan. With a vocabulary of roughly a dozen words – wall, Mexicans, low-energy, loser, Muslims, stupid, China, negotiate, deals, America, great, again – he’s bamboozled millions of Americans. And it’s not just splenetic conservatives supporting Trump or your garden-variety bigots (although that’s the center of his coalition), it’s also independents, pro-choice Republicans, and a subset of Reagan Democrats."

    http://www.salon.com/2016/02/24/amer...ion_of_idiots/


    "What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" Abraham Lincoln Source: February 27, 1860 Cooper Union
    If only people would get behind those who consider themselves the Wizards of Smart. Those educated at the BEST schools and only believe the RIGHT things. What a wonderful world it would be. How dare these people have their own beliefs in how they think the country should be run.

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Love America View Post
    If only people would get behind those who consider themselves the Wizards of Smart. Those educated at the BEST schools and only believe the RIGHT things. What a wonderful world it would be. How dare these people have their own beliefs in how they think the country should be run.
    That makes no sense, there may be something there but it is hidden to all. Please clarify.

    PS please stop censoring freedom of speech in America, allow everyone to chime in on your threads, and maybe then you'd learn clarity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    That makes no sense, there may be something there but it is hidden to all. Please clarify.

    PS please stop censoring freedom of speech in America, allow everyone to chime in on your threads, and maybe then you'd learn clarity.
    I apologize if the sarcasm was lost on you. You see the left doesn't think it is enough to just disagree. They actually see themselves as more virtuous and intellectually superior.

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    Nobody is being censored

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Midcan is trolling and I think that skirts the purpose of APP.

    You know what's embarrassing? Pooping yourself in the check out line at Wallmart. Now that's embarrassing.

    Having different political beliefs from someone else is not.
    No argument with this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by I Love America View Post
    I apologize if the sarcasm was lost on you. You see the left doesn't think it is enough to just disagree. They actually see themselves as more virtuous and intellectually superior.

    PS Nobody is being censored
    You do realize that kind of thinking can excuse anything at all. Oh and when others are banned from participating in a public conversation that is censorship. If circle jerks turn you on, please do it off line.
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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    You do realize that kind of thinking can excuse anything at all. Oh and when others are banned from participating in a public conversation that is censorship. If circle jerks turn you on, please do it off line.
    You keep using that word but I don't think it means what you think it means

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    raise your hand if you care that midcan is embarassed.......

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