A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots

[JohnR]

While everything here is pretty on point it was not from Jeff Foxworthy

http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/idiots.asp

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by JohnR

While everything here is pretty on point it was not from Jeff Foxworthy

http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/idiots.asp

Someone sent me that and I just assumed it was his material.But I agree its on point.

Would love to know who that actually originated from!

[spence]

Originally Posted by basswipe

Would love to know who that actually originated from!

You could write this stuff all day and just as easy to write things that would appeal the other direction as well.

Most of these when you really read them don't make a lot of sense...they're spin.

-spence

[basswipe]

It is correct and exactly how things are.I've witnessed all of those situations first hand,there's no spin there it is simply the reality in which we live,there's no other way to interpret it.Reality's a bitch and many Americans bury their heads in the sand and make excuses.....if you deny its real than it must not be real.

Sorry guys but that is the reality in which we live.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

You could write this stuff all day and just as easy to write things that would appeal the other direction as well.

I assume you believe that it would depend on context, and variables, and relative perceptions. Which, of course, would make all observations merely exercises in solipsistic masturbation--just stuff easily spewed all day, going in onanistic directions--as easy, no doubt, as it was for you to write the above uninformative but dismissive sentence.

Most of these when you really read them don't make a lot of sense...they're spin.

-spence

Having really read basswipe's post, its observations make a lot of sense to me. But I view them in the context of the principles that guided the geniuses who formed this nation. When those principles are abandoned, not replaced with other consistent or immutable ones, but by rule of whim, then there is no constant "sense" to government. Basswipe's post demonstrates this well. And spin, in this state of whimsy, becomes the mode of conversation and communication. Spin is the method of persuasion. The rhetoric which daily and easily spews from the mouths of our politicians who constantly want to "help" us with new burdensome regulations persuade us to accept them by wonderfully spinning the great benefits they bestow upon us--never mind the increasing debt, contradictory laws, and loss of freedom.