Conservatives are all about blame. Somebody else is responsible for all my problems, and the left lets them get away with it. Time to call bullshit and let them know we aren't going to let them blame others for their shortcomings. If, with all the advantages of being a white, middle-class American you still need to find someone to blame for your problems, then we are going to call you out.
It's time to treat these whiners with the lack of respect they deserve, but it means calling it to their faces. Gotta have some guts. Cross posted at my blog, It Begs the Question.
We've all had the experience of catching one of our children in the midst of doing something they shouldn't, and when confronted they blame somebody else. Not mature enough to live with the consequences of their own actions, they search frantically for a scapegoat upon which to blame all their troubles and shortcomings. It's at these moments that we exercise our parental prerogative and responsibility, and we teach our children their culpability for their actions. It's a difficult lesson, but one which they have to learn.
Lately, though, we've been treated to a display of sophomoric sniveling beyond any which I've ever seen, and it's being done by people that claim to be adults. While we expect a seven-year-old to blame his problems on someone else, it's less than becoming when an adult can't take responsibility for his or her own actions. It begs the question, when did conservatives become such a bunch of whiny-asses?
Exhibit A. is Sarah Palin. Though Palin was the vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, and would have been a whisker away from the Oval Office, there's not one of her problems she won't blame on someone else. First Katie Couric is a meanie because she dares ask Palin her feelings about the Bush doctrine, a theme that was central to his presidency. Palin hadn't a clue. She creates a word, Refudiate®, then gets angry when people call her on it. Palin doesn't even know that Africa is a continent, thinking incorrectly it's a country. Then she whines and cries about yellow journalism, when clearly the whole world can see it's her own stupidity that's the problem.
How about Glenn Beck? Here's a man afflicted with a severe mental illness where he obsesses that everyone is Adolf Hitler and out to get him. Hitler invades and occupies Beck's every thought. Clearly Beck is suffering from some obsessive-compulsive delusion, but his continual blaming becomes tedious. The time is way past due for Glenn Beck to check himself into a psychiatric hospital for help, but he would rather blame liberals and Adolf Hitler for all his problems.
Then there is the Ten Commandments crew. They bitch, piss and moan that they can't display the Ten Commandments in schools, thereby making it impossible for them to raise morally upright children. They ignore the fact that liberals send their children to those very same schools and raise them just fine. They never consider, even for a moment, that they might be the shittiest parents on the face of the earth, and that their children despise them and everything they stand for. Nope, it's got to be a liberal's fault.
Then there is the abstinence-only crowd. These are people that are too embarrassed to discuss sexuality with their children, so they believe in abstinence-only. That is, abstaining from the discussion. While Planned Parenthood will discuss sexuality in detail with a teenager, including referring to the anatomy using proper terms and explaining all manner of birth control to them, abstinence-only people think that's the problem. So they've forced meaningful sexual education out of the classroom and replaced them with abstinence-only discussions, they won't talk to the kid about it themselves, and they end up making a baby, vis-à-vis Bristol Palin. Somehow they find a way to blame this and their own prudish mentality on liberals.
We could go on and on. Illegal immigrants are responsible for everything that's going wrong with them. Homosexuality is responsible for everything that's going wrong with them. Minorities are responsible for everything that's going wrong with them. There is just no end to their craven blame-fest as they desperately seek out a scapegoat for their own shortcomings and inadequacies. Instead of bucking up and confronting their troubles head-on, they are always looking for someone to blame because somehow they don't measure up.
These displays are unbecoming, and they're getting to be downright embarrassing. Watching interviews of these people at teabagger parties it's clear that their problems originate due to the fact that they are some of the dimmest bulbs in the strand. Most of them couldn't think their way out of a paper bag, and somehow it would be a liberal's fault that they were in the paper bag in the first place. It's time to stand up and tell them that their fucking problems are their own fucking problems. Don't bother us, because we've got a country to run.
What makes this whining and sniveling even more despicable is that a vast majority of it is being done by middle-class white people. They've lived with white entitlement all their lives and have received every consideration over and above every other racial or ethnic group. They are like the welfare queens they complain of, only worse in that they're being given everything it is they want yet they still want more. Such shameless self-pity needs to be identified for what it is, and we need to stand up and scream it at the top of our lungs whenever we see it. We'll mollycoddle you white whiners no more. Get used to it.
It may sound harsh, but I've never seen any other way to get people to quit feeling sorry for themselves, especially when they are being handed everything on a silver platter. The ride's over, we're calling bullshit. If you're going to act like spoiled children then that's how we'll treat you, and we'll embarrass you every chance we get. Just quit your God damned whining, because we're sick of it.