Another Rant About American Conservatives

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by NineOneFour

GROW UP


The Apostle Paul (not exactly the most enlightened human being who ever lived, but anyway) wrote: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became an adult, I put away childish things."It is past time that a large percentage of Americans grew up, stopped speaking as children, understanding as children, and thinking as children.

Adults who have accepted the responsibility of adulthood do not view the world as they wish it to be; they view the world as it is, and then empowered with this knowledge, they try to make it better. They also view people they know as they are and accept them for who they are, and not as how they want them to be.

It's time to grow up and stop having tantrums. Yes, I'm looking at you, conservatives.

This might be a news for you, so let me be the one to break it to you: the sanitized 1950s are over. Hell, the 1960s are over, so stop viewing everything through a lens of 'real Americans' and 'dirty hippies'. This viewpoint wasn't even valid then, and that was FIFTY YEARS AGO. The 1970s are over. The 1980s are over. When you talk about how awesome Reagan was, you need to understand that you sound just as stupid as when in the 1980s old people talked about how awesome FDR was. I think FDR was awesome and you might think Reagan was awesome, but people today don't care. In 1980, FDR hadn't been elected for 36 years. By 2016, the last time Reagan appeared on a ballot will be 32 years ago. When you try to compare Obama to Carter, trust me, no one under 40 cares or even understands what you're think you're saying.

Grow the hell up and start living your life in the present.

Your childhood might have been awesome for you, whatever time you grew up in. Maybe you think it was like "Leave it to Beaver" and you didn't have to deal with black Presidents, filthy Mexicans, flaming gays, or obnoxious youths with piercings, tattoos, and weird hair, but I have more news for you: your sanitized childhood sucked royally for a huge percentage of the population. And like the guy who was the popular kid in high school who longs for his 'glory days' because he now lives in the single-wide mobile home and who's main recreational activity involves the consumption of crystal meth, you look really, really pathetic, longing for 'the good old days'. The 'good old days', depending on which decade you are referring to, involved lynchings, gay-bashing, Christian dominionism, widespread misogyny, and women dying in alleys from botched abortions. And you want to bring that back so you can feel better about yourself? Selfish, much?

Oh, and just because none of this stuff happened to you, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Adults are aware of the existence of and have empathy for other human beings. It is young children who are still narcissistic and unsympathetic to others.

So grow up.


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