House of Eratosthenes

This was a Facebook post, but it’s really more appropriate here. I didn’t think of blogging it because there’s no one particular event actuating the thought…but it should be written down and preserved for posterity.

In America, the moderates decide the elections. Moderates are not well-informed people. They call themselves “independents” but they’re not. They make their decisions pretty much blindly, by removing the two extremes and accepting without reservation whatever happens to be in between.

That’s good for surveys and scientific samples. Let’s see how it works with politics.

President Obama is not a manager of anything at all; like most accomplished politicians, He is merely a figurehead of a political movement. As such, He could best be seen as merely a proposal. And the proposal is this. One day you’re just minding your own business, and President Obama drives up in a big truck and says “I’m going to take money away from you, since you did not vote for Me, and I’m going to give all your stuff to the people who did vote for Me.” He uses phrases like “just a little bit more” a lot, but even a third-grader could see He has no limitations in mind at all. Obama has no more comprehension of “alright that’s it, I’ve redistributed enough” than your favorite dog does of “alright that’s it I’ve eaten enough.”

That’s the proposal. Three answers materialize, the first one from you: No.

The second answer is a beat-down against the first: “You’re just saying no to President Obama because He’s a black guy.”

The third answer comes from some Michael Moore type of character, who waddles in and opines with some nonsense that private property is mythical, and the house, everything in it, and the bank accounts never belonged to you in the first place.

So. We have: No; “You’re just saying no because it’s a black guy who’s asking”; and, It-was-never-yours. Remove the two “extremes” and blindly accept the middle. What do you get?

I’ve always thought that one of the big, obvious dangers of the left’s “you only hate Him because He’s black!” strategy is blowback. Of course the left doesn’t see this — foreseeing the long-term consequences of their tactics isn’t their strong suit — but it seems inevitable that some knuckleheads out there are going to say “well, if they’re gonna call me a racist no matter what I do…..”

If it weren’t causing real suffering to real people, it’d be funny — the election of America’s first black president has polarized race relations like never before.
- Severian | 04/11/2013 @ 07:56
it seems inevitable that some knuckleheads out there are going to say “well, if they’re gonna call me a racist no matter what I do…..”

I’m actually in that camp. I think most divorced men are. The average time between that point where you’re to blame for every little piece of unhappiness in married life, and the other point where the divorce is filed & everyone’s moved out of the house and there’s no reason to say anything to each other besides “where’s my alimony check you asshole”…well…that’s probably around three years, at the very low end. But it only takes about a month and a half or so of that before you start to adapt and implement Morgan Rule #1: “If I’m gonna be accused, I wanna be guilty.”
- mkfreeberg | 04/11/2013 @ 08:14
Bingo.

There are gonna be some very confused liberals out there when this attitude takes off:

“You’re a racist!”
“So what?”

As we’ve seen in the “debates” with our favorite gadfly collective, they simply cannot process situations where their talking points don’t work. It breaks their poor little brains.

Problem is, “racism” is pretty much a federal offense these days…
- Severian | 04/11/2013 @ 08:47
Back during the 2008 Dem primary season, I told a lefty friend of mine that no matter who won, she had her rebuttal to every argument ready. When she asked what I meant, I said that if Hillary won, every complaint would be called sexism and if Barry won, every complaint would be called racism. This statement upset her, if memory serves. I wonder if the reality that I was correct makes her more upset? Probably not because, as a lefty, she Won.

As we’ve seen in the “debates” with our favorite gadfly collective, they simply cannot process situations where their talking points don’t work. It breaks their poor little brains.

Once had another lefty say that we should “STOP RAPING THE PLANET!!!”. When I asked him to clarify what, exactly, constituted taking unwanted sexual liberties of Gaia and how that corresponded to reality. He looked at me angry. Angry, but silent. Apparently spouting nonsense works in his world (duh) and he was (is) not well prepared to engage in actual debate.

Just so we’re clear, I’m a racist, sexist homophobe who wants to kick grandma out on the street- after feeding her cat food for a while- right before I set fire to houses of the poor so as to light my cigars. At least that’s what I’ve been told, so it must be true.
- Physics Geek | 04/11/2013 @ 09:20
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- How to Explain American Politics to Someone From Another Country or Planet | Rotten Chestnuts | 04/12/2013 @ 07:13
Just so we’re clear, I’m a racist, sexist homophobe who wants to kick grandma out on the street- after feeding her cat food for a while- right before I set fire to houses of the poor so as to light my cigars. At least that’s what I’ve been told, so it must be true.

– Physics Geek | 04/11/2013 @ 09:20

Depending on what “group” (there are several in the current “no profiling” administration) you may endorse, or carry-a-card, you’re ALSO considered a potentially violent terrorist, and subject to um…NEW…”Latest studies show…” findings of mental instability, that Obamacare-later defined as a tax to avoid the icky Constitutional Interpretation thingie-will plop down right on your firearms permission application, electronically “reported” (for your convienience, and to save “insurance” money) on the “opinion” of the same doctors asking your unattended children if there is spanking, or firearms at home, as a matter of …you know…”health” concerns, …for the children

The APA (where do THEY fall into Obamacares NEW “pre-existing condition” qualifications?) is already on the job… for their next “revision”.

So. We have: No; “You’re just saying no because it’s a black guy who’s asking”; and, It-was-never-yours. Remove the two “extremes” and blindly accept the middle. What do you get?

Well, on a bell curve, I STILL get “No”. Hopefully the IRS confiscation/denial of service/privacy laws are aligned with M$N8C’s (hyphen) Perry’s creative writing thesis on my “right” to “free” housing, “wellness” care, education, food,- “security”, per diem allowance, cell phone, utilities, and uh….The “NEW” Constitution… and stuff like that.
- CaptDMO | 04/14/2013 @ 08:50

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