Time to Stop the Madness
American Spectator,
by
George Parry
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/11/2020 3:59:14 AM
My maternal grandparents were Lebanese Christians who came to America in the first decade of the 20th century. They settled in Atlanta, Georgia, where my mother and her older brother, Tom, were born. When my mother was a toddler, her mother died.
My grandfather was a peddler who made a subsistence living selling dry goods to hillbillies from the back of a horse-drawn wagon. He and his children were very poor and lived in what was easily the roughest, most notorious, and least desirable part of the city.
One day, when he was about twelve years old, Tom vanished without a trace. My mother and her father frantically searched far and wide.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
walcb 5/11/2020 7:49:26 AM (No. 407662)
Very logical analysis; therefore, it will have no value to the reactionary majority.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catfur27 5/11/2020 9:41:34 AM (No. 407753)
Mark Twain said " It is much easier to fool people...than to convince them they have been fooled "
A) ...If we had an honest media with integrity...that gave both side of the story...this insane shutdown scheme probably would have never happened ...at least not on this scale
B) The bedwetters will never accept the truth...let THEM stay at home ...re-open the country now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/11/2020 9:41:46 AM (No. 407754)
We will never stop the madness, the only way to combat that is to ignore it. A simpler way of putting it is "you can't fix stupid." Many of these people are not into flattening the curve, that has already been accomplished, but they continue to speak of a vaccine as though that is inevitable, it is not. We are living with HIV/AIDS, a number of flu viruses and the common cold, year after year, for decades and probably centuries.
The madness manifests itself in the form of democrats, liberals, pedophiles, transexuals, drug addicts, the homeless, BLM, #Resist, #MeToo, Socialists, Communists, etc. Parry's Uncle Tom is the same as the woman playing ball with her daughter in an empty park. Much of our law enforcement has been disappointing, to put it mildly. Stand up for your rights, remind them that they are acting outside the Constitution and tell the mask-nannies to shove it.
I had an interesting encounter yesterday. I walked into a local Subway with my silly little mask on and the owner/attendant was not wearing a mask. I said, "if you're not wearing one I guess I don't need one." His opinion was the lockdown was bull**** and a huge hoax. I can't agree with the science or the reasoning either. I don't believe any of those Blue State governors ever passed a science class at any level.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/11/2020 10:01:03 AM (No. 407776)
This isn't "madness." It's purposeful resistance. As in medieval times, it's like the siege of a castle by attacking forces, to basically starve and weaken the enemy within. The only thing different is that this is the first time in history that it's being done by opposing forces WITHIN the castle.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Democrats will attempt to continue this "siege by lockdown" in one form or another (ah yes, the clever rules and impossible conditions for moving through their 99 phases to full recovery) until another Democrat is elected President. Or, I suppose, until they are all dead...which they seem to be pushing us to consider seriously.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jacksin5 5/11/2020 10:02:36 AM (No. 407778)
My spouse works at an Amazon distribution center here in Fla. They employ hundreds of employees to hand packages that are coming in from all over the Country, if not the World. Many bought into the hysteria, and left, but were rapidly replaced. Thus far, there have been two reported cases of Covid, both by outside contractors. I'm sure the numbers are similar for the Big Box stores. Given this, which is it? Conspiracy, or downright ignorance? Safety of the pursuit of Money and Power?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/11/2020 10:21:37 AM (No. 407802)
A small point, but I cringed at the use of 'hillbillies' in the article. It was a very informative, well written article, other than that. I'm not micro aggressed by the word, but I'm willing to bet that the author would not like he or his family referred to as 'camel jockeys'. Hillbillies may not be a disparaging word, but it didn't add anything to the article.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/11/2020 12:42:11 PM (No. 407963)
#6. Don't have a problem being called a hillybilly. Born and grew up in rural Tenn and have a Southern twang. The Beverly Hillbillies and Deliverance don't depict the southerners that I know. Hope the madness ends soon. If it weren't for my pc I wouldn't even know what day of the week it is. Eventually you have to come out of hiding and face the world.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/11/2020 1:30:38 PM (No. 407992)
#6 - I had the same "cringe" at the use of "hillbillies". Then I realized that "cringe" was not my own, but a learned response after decades of communist propaganda. If I may presume, you also felt like me that the "cringe" was something stimulated by our "progressive" comrades with your disclaimer, "I'm not micro aggressed by the word," before citing an equivalent insult for comparison. The template response used by social justice warriors for the last 40 years. Its no wonder PC has become ingrained even in us who detest the policing of language. Your conclusion admits "hillbillies" is not a disparaging word, "but it didn't add anything to the article." On that point I disagree.
Mr. Perry was describing the life of his grandfather. To invoke that period for the reader he used the common words of the time; peddler, dry goods, hillbillies, horse-drawn wagon. None of those four terms are in common use today, yet only one caused "cringes" for both of us and probably others. I doubt Mr. Perry's sentence would have given the same imagery to the reader if he had written instead, "My grandfather was a territory-based sales person who made minimum selling bulk items to residents of remote communities from a non-motorized vehicle."
In our battle to reclaim our rights and liberties we must be aware of our personal responses to the propaganda that manipulates emotions so that people will accept the unacceptable. This small example shows us how easily it is for any of us to experience this manipulation. We need to recognize it when it happens to us and consciously reject it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 5/11/2020 5:32:18 PM (No. 408159)
I think the law enforcement response in some cases have been troubling. We always thought that our cops and soldiers wouldn't turn on us like some have. The funny part is the left hates both and only uses them to do their bidding.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
weejun 5/11/2020 6:10:26 PM (No. 408187)
Several key factors causing this mess (probably one of the stupidest, most harmful set of actions ever taken by government):
1. A public that has raised personal safety to god-status.
2. A sensation-seeking media desperately trying to be relevant.
3. Politicians who are afraid if they don't do something, they won't get re-elected.
And sane, logical people everywhere who dare to raise the insanity of all this are shouted down by the "if we just save one life it is worth it" crowd.
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