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It’s important…
Thing I Know #408. You can’t aspire toward success if you won’t spot the fails.
Yeah, it has something to do with President OBumbles; it is now a regular occurrence for me to hear Him defended with the tired ol’ “doing the best that He can” and “it will take Him awhile to clean up the mess of you-know-who.”
The issue is not that, if this is the best defense available, that as good a guarantee as you’re gonna get that we’re looking at a flop. Although that’s true. The issue is calling out the flop. So no, this is not entirely concerned with our incumbent President; it’s a much, much bigger issue than Him.
It takes balls to call out flops. But the first step toward success is to know what it looks like. To know what a success looks like, you have to call out a fail when it’s staring you right in the face.
Too many among my so-called-countrymen will read that, and reply with something like “That’s right! and…” then they’ll go on to mention some guy who stopped being President three years ago today. Thereby continuing to illustrate exactly what I’m pointing out…as well as the plain and simple fact that they just can’t stop.
That other guy was in for eight years. He ran things for eight years. The average retail gas price (USD/gallon, all brands) for those eight years, assuming I ran my calculator right, was $2.174; that is not the price of a gallon of gas today. The average unemployment rate during those eight years was 5.2625%; that is not the unemployment rate today.
Can’t aspire toward success if you won’t spot the fails.
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Not spotting the fails is THE key component to liberalism. For instance, if they could spot the fails, they wouldn’t be so up in arms every time someone calls OBumbles a socialist. “What, THAT sad, discredited ideology? It died of loneliness in the Wilson administration,” they’d say. They certainly wouldn’t wail and caterwaul about what a racist you are for even thinking he’s a socialist… and then dodging and weaving like Ron Paul at a “Loose Change” screening when asked to define what exactly a socialist IS, and why Dear Leader isn’t one.
My bizarre random theory of the day: I bet you can track the rise of “fail? what fail?” liberalism almost exactly against the decline in competitive youth sports. Little League, Pop Warner, etc. is where most of us born before Generation Waaaah got our first exposure to some bedrock realities. “There’s the basket,” the coach would say. “You failed to put the ball in the basket. Try hard to put the ball in the basket, because that’s the only way to score.”
Most of us then learned that athletic talent is distributed on a pretty ruthless curve, and that the phrase “it’s not fair!” has nothing to do with hitting a curveball, sinking a jump shot, or making an open-field tackle. Some people are capable of these things, and some are not — and that’s ok, because ALL talents work like that, and while the varsity quarterback may be better than you at throwing touchdown passes, you’re better than him at calculus.
Kids who did NOT go through this formative experience, by contrast, ran for student government… and they’re still under the impression that they will be just as good as the varsity QB if they just get the legislation right (or, at least, they’ll force us all to pretend by threatening to sic the DOJ on us).
- Severian | 01/20/2012 @ 11:19Certainly the modern liberal is “fail blind.” They have made a good living at fail protection for a sector of society.
On the other hand they are very good at success sighting. Seeing a real success story, such as Herman Cain, makes their fail protection look ineffective and unnecessary. Success stories, real success stories without their hands on it, make them look ineffective, narcissistic and paternal. Hence the attack on those succeeding.
Real success is blatant criteria for calling a “fail”. Can’t have that. It must be destroyed or handicapped enough to make it look like those in fail protection.
- Whitehawk | 01/20/2012 @ 14:07