The far right seems to crave freedom from reality

[azmouse]

Quote:“Remind them of this: if they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff.” Willard Mitt Romney

Quote:Here is Mitt Romney, a man who wants us to believe he received at least $100,000 a year from Bain Capital for 3 years for doing nothing, assuming that African Americans want MORE free stuff.

Forget the legacy of slavery, in which millions of slaves provided “free stuff” for centuries. Forget that our government spent billions propping up financiers like Mitt Romney. Forget that our government still provides nearly free loans to bankers while regular citizens often pay usurious rates. Forget that we give oil companies billions in subsidies they don’t need and pay defense contractors billions to build defense systems we don’t need.

When did we become a country where the millionaires are jealous of the people on food stamps? A country that thinks teachers and fire fighters are sucking us dry? A country that thinks the richest who are paying some of the lowest taxes in 80 years are the ones being beaten up?

I don’t think living through poverty is a virtue but when someone like Mitt Romney who was born well off makes such a certifiably inane statement, I’m assuming he missed some essential part of brain development. He has no idea what it’s like to struggle. No idea how humiliating it can be to have no option but to accept charity. No idea what it means that people who denied the vote until the 1960s are now being forced to pay a new form of a poll tax to get it back.

The freedom the far right seems to crave more and more is a freedom from reality, a freedom from consequence and responsibility. And if they win this year selling these insulting bromides, they’re going to have Mitt on a string and all the free stuff from the government they could ever want.

http://eclectablog.com/2012/07/who-wants...dGY.reddit

[jaxx]

That's what going back in time does.....it creates a utopia that never existed, but has to be real like Leave it to Beaver and the Nelsons. All sugar and no spice. Never mind that racial freedom didn't exist, they can live with that.