BloggeRhythms

Jeremy W. Petersoct authored an article in the New York Times titled: “Cry of G.O.P. in Campaign: All Is Dismal.”

 

His first paragraph sums up the story quite well, as follows, “With four weeks to go before the midterm elections, Republicans have made questions of how safe we are — from disease, terrorism or something unspoken and perhaps more ominous — central in their attacks against Democrats. Their message is decidedly grim: President Obama and the Democratic Party run a government that is so fundamentally broken it cannot offer its people the most basic protection from harm.”

 

What was most interesting, though, was the readers comments that followed. The majority sounding like ardent Democrat party supporters. A couple of examples are listed below.

 

DMC from Chico, CA writes: “You want something to fear? How about the Republican lust for guns, guns, guns? How about Wall Street strutting around completely unreformed and ready to crash the car again? How about cops killing kids daily with never a corrective prosecution and conviction? How about runaway climate change being accelerated by our relentless addiction to fossil fuels and refusal to invest in renewables? How about our own gluttony and the obesity epidemic that is making our (mostly red states) population unhealthy?

 

There's plenty to fear, and lots we could be doing to address real problems that cause real harm and misery, but the GOP is lost in a fantasy world of Halloween goblins and willful delusions.”

 

While reader DMC’s complaints about Republicans are typical of Dems, he fails to see why the issues he raises exist at all. As far as guns are concerned, if he truly wants them banned then he should pursue a change to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution which says, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

 

As far as Wall Street’s concerned, the market growth stems from the current administration’s policy’s of massive artificially low cost borrowing made possible by their pressure on the Federal Reserve, coupled with a stagnating economy due to government interference and over-regulation elsewhere in the business community curbing traditional investment as a result.

 

The case of “cops killing kids daily” results from those very same kids carrying weapons themselves, while refusing to obey officer’s commands, brazenly challenging their authority instead.

 

In the case of climate change, there hasn’t been any at all for the past eighteen years, while current temperatures indicate a cooling trend that will likely make the coming winter one of the coldest in recorded history. At the same time, the reluctance to using “renewables” stems for the fact that aren’t any viable ones in existence at present, unless one wants to cool a home with a windmill.

 

Lastly, a considerable cause of “gluttony and obesity” is probably greatly facilitated by the fact that about 50% of the population is being assisted by government programs such as food stamps, which lead to the purchase of high-calorie processed items, fast foods, beverages and snacks.

 

But, then again, if those people were eating properly and really healthy, they wouldn't have time to sit on the couch with bags of potato chips and pretzels writing comments about nasty Republicans. They’d be out in the workforce, earning a living.    

    

The second comment came from George at coastline, who wrote: “Spending five weeks in the Netherlands recently I had enough time and enough personal contacts to get a feel of how things are there. There economy is much worse than ours, but it didn't seem to depress people too much. The big difference between the mindset of the Dutch and ours was obvious to see: They have a lack of fear. They didn't seem to be afraid of their economic future, despite the grim facts we are all aware of. But most surprising of all-- nobody was afraid to go anywhere or do anything. Walkers not afraid of being run down by bikes. Not afraid while biking of being run down by cars. Not afraid of terrorists blowing them up or shooting them down. Not afraid of diseases from the Africans and Easterners obviously present everywhere on trains and buses. Our media has done a brilliant job of making us afraid, very afraid. The point of this article is right on target.”

 

In this case, to get a better idea of the Dutch situation, I searched and found that the total Netherland population is 16,802,000 people, ranking 64th among the 184 countries which publish this kind information.

 

Therefore, its no wonder they have no fear of almost any threat because nobody’s going to bother with harassing a country that’s about half the size of the state of Florida. 

 

Nonetheless, if George wants to pursue his point again, I suggest he come back when the Netherlands adds about 300 million more folks to its population and also becomes the leading target in the free world due to its success as a nation. Because if its still accident free then, he’d really have something to talk about. 

 

That's it for today folks.

 

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