I have come here less and less,
I read a diary where those who say they want a break from DKOS won't be punished, only those who say they are outta here will be cut off,
Well I need a break from DKOS, but I am not outta here.
My Aunt has always said there were 2 classes in this country, the haves and the have nots. I submit that there is three, the haves, the wanna be's and the have nots.
the Haves need no explanation, neither do the have nots.
The Wanna bes?
Are my of my children's generation, born in the 70's and early 80's, mostly college educated, most feeling as if they missed the "better days", but long for the money and wealth of the Baby Boomer Generation.
Most do not remember times of real discrimination, against women and blacks, and well any one who was not a white man with a job.
Most had fairly easy lives, although they do not think so. But in comparison to say 2 generations before them, quite a nice life. Even children on welfare, prior to its abolition, had it easier then the previous generations. When we provided NO assistance to the poor at all.
If you ask my children, and most of their friends they will tell a tail of struggle and strife. And absolutely none of them had anywhere near the troubles even I had as a white child in the 50's and 60's. And my life compared to say a black child's was cushy, compared to a white child from a married couple, we were poor, different, being raised by a single mother when women were still not allowed to own a home, or get a loan. So the new car every three years, not us, OK. But my mother having to scrub floors, and my father sweeping the streets and I still had no food, not us either. We were some where in the middle.
Not middle class, I had cousins that were middle class, we were white and poor, black and poor was much worse. Any how,
I listen to you here in DKOS, and you from that same generation as my kids, somewhere between 27 and 40. And you don't understand. You never really had to understand, how this society of ours works. You have almost never been really faced with the social strata, the social stigmas the absolute stone walls that your elders faced. We never told you about them, or told you you could be whatever you wanted to be, or in some way lied to you and made you believe the world would live in peace love and understanding. Whooo hooo What's so funny about peace love and understanding, as Elvis might ask.
Well Elvis, here is the answer. This generation the Wanna Be's are the ONLY ones who think we should all live that way. My generation remembers real discrimination, those black people going to school with the police were not in some distant neighborhood, they were in MY neighborhood too. My mother could not buy a house, she had no husband, and after Daddy died she did not want any other husband. I remember. Her coming home from work crying because a man at work assaulted her. I remember.
I remember getting assaulted at GM, when I worked the line there. And having no one to go to, no one who would defend me, so I had to learn to defend myself. I remember, being told I could not have the promotion because I was a woman. I remember the guys on the line yelling at me that I was taking a man with a family's job, and I should get married and get the fuck out. I lost that job, and I remember being homeless, and when I got my first job the boss told me he was going to pay me 13500, in stead of 13000 because I was a single mom. But the man hired same job same day 19000. In 1983 that was huge. I remember having to work in the "woman" professions, low pay, terrible bosses, all male of course, the jokes, the innuendos, the comments. I was a cute little thing, I took a lot of shit from men. I experienced that discrimination first hand.
I remember moving back into the man's world of IT, how hard it was to get anything besides and admin job. I remember Bob telling me he was going to punch me in t he face because "he went to the navel academy" and deserved the promotion more than I did (but I got it) After that Lonnie threatening to throw me down the stairs for disagreeing with him, how dare I. Being told to NEVER expect to get equal pay, unless I became a man.
Peace love and understanding? Come on these are still the guys in power. These guys run the other countries too by the way, that are the biggest influence on our foreign policies.
The wanna bes have never really had any of this, you grew up in the kinder gentler world. And now your shocked to find it not so kind and not so gentle.
And yet, your the rude ones, the abrasive ones. Your so convinced that your right, you have no idea that you can be right and so can everyone else. Shocker!! Teabaggers see themselves the same way, and question your sanity the same as you question theirs. Sara Palin, perhaps not a dumb as she seems, she is playing the role they expect from her, you can't really be pretty AND smart ya know.
You wanna be's though go right off the deep end over her, shit she has been in the lead of my gender my whole freaking life.
Dick Chaney, Karl Rove, shock you, horrify you, make you sick to your stomach.
And very few of you really know that Chaney, Rove, Obama, Biden, Clinton all of them were really just temporary captains on a sinking ship, called Democracy. Not just communism failed, remember we are fed b our competitions and there was none after communism failed. Who to compete with Who shall it be.
PSSSSSSSTTTTTT they have always run this country, in the early days their names were Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Samuel Adams. Go to this site, and read about these guys, peachy keen touchy feely good guys, Hell no........ Cut throat business men, mostly, some Johnny do gooders, but not most.
Any way I find most Kossacks to be wanna bes, you want the wealth and prestige offered previous generations, but will never get it. You want the big house in the burbs, June and Ward life. but that world never existed, so you can't have it.
You want this country to be right again, well we were never right to begin with. And I am too sick, too close to dying, too old, too jaded, whatever, to deal with you for a while. You don't listen, You never will, you believe in your education, as horribly corrupted with propaganda as it really was, and that won't change in here. I mean really, anyone tell me about Spain's role WW2, or am I the only one who noticed that the axis no longer includes Franco and Spain, just Italy, Germany and Japan.....
so a hiatus from DKOS will do me some good. I will perhaps remember that both sides put out propaganda, Right and left, this is an arm of the left's.
So give me a pass, I have campaigns to work on, people to support, god knows I do NOT want a Republican back in my governors chair.
So back to my world, politics, where no one plays fair, it is all about greed, power and money, and we just talk like we are Goodies Goodies to you wanna bes.