Always someone, to blame.
If you do not have health care insurance and end up bankrupt or unable to get healthcare at all?
That is according to many a "personal responsibility"
No mind that that Health insurance is as much as the total sum of a paycheque. You decided to feed the kids and keep a roof over your head instead of paying the costs to get insurance. Too bad. SO sad.
You lost your house?
Well, that mortgage was totally beyond your means, and you should have known that. No mind to the fact that the banks killed the markets and also caused the whole housing market to go underwater, and that they used predatory lending practices.
It is all about YOUR personal responsibility.
Suck it UP. Buttercup.
Lost your job you say? Well, go work at McDonalds! Even if they had a job it is not enough to live on for a single person, let alone a family....But that is your fault anyway. You just wanted all those fancy job regulations and living wages.
Get over yourself and PULL up your bootstraps.
Be responsible.
You say you were raped? What were YOU wearing? Where were YOU walking? What signals did you send to men? Shameful. YOU had consensual sex in the past? GUILTY!
Pregnant from that rape?
It's a gift. Next time put an aspirin between your knees, and pray for forgiveness.
It is ALL your fault.
Channeling that kind of claptrap is hard enough. Especially when the very assholes that refuse to accept any responsibility, for anything, are saying these things.
Rush, that fetid obscene excuse for a man will not accept responsibility for the hateful things he says. He thinks it is all our fault for being offended.
Republicans/Conservatives are totally into this. They say horrific things, slanderous and hurtful. But then they won't take any personal responsibility for doing it.
That Librul media...... The Republicans cannot take any personal responsibility for the evil deeds they do, for their behaviours when they get caught doing it. It's a GOTCHA they say.
There are even the "godly" ones who practice some sort of bastardized Christianity. They think that they are doing well because GOD approves of their lives, and that those who have fallen on hard times in this global economic meltdown and return to feudalism are just not good enough people. SINNERS!
They pray to the ATM of Jesus and expect their prayers to be answered with more wealth and power. Confusing piety with connectedness and/or inherited wealth.
The Free markets are revered as the invisible hand of god, that must be manipulated to allow them to keep their place on the economic food chain. If it fails to deliver, well then it is not their fault. It is the will of god and not their failed theories and constant manipulation.
Their Jesus is a Libertarian who hates poor folks and social programs. And women, LGBT people and people of colour.
There is apparently an indulgence scheme still in place where they are buying their place in Heaven.
There is always someone else to blame.
Global climate change is not happening, the climate "debate" is kept going and the financial juggernaut that keeps it alive paid for by Exxon Mobile and their little friends is a whole industry in and of itself.
If a Natural disaster happens, floods, fires, storms? It isn't them and their greed and selfishness causing it. It's the GAYS! And Feminism! And. And. And.
Science is bad. It makes it that much harder to point the finger elsewhere. So they demonize that too.
Here in Canada, the evidence is overwhelmingly showing that the Conservatives stole the last election (and possibly earlier ones) through voter suppression and fraud. They say that this is all just a smear campaign, and that the libruls are making this an issue not because what they probably did is quite wrong, AND illegal. The feeling many Canadians are getting is that they simply think they have no responsibility to act honourably.
Convictions on willfully scamming elections funding?Just a paperwork snafoo they say. No. They have no responsibility in that either.
Trayvon Martin.... They want to make it his fault for getting himself killed. He was a scary black man and all. Wearing a hoodie. They want him to take the fall for his own murder.
In a twisted version of what they do to victims of rape, he is now being tried in a public kangaroo court by conservatives simply for being who he was. What he was wearing, where he was daring to walk. How he looked.
According to these people, Zimmerman cannot possibly be expected to accept any personal responsibility for his own actions. He was frightened for his very life and HAD to stalk follow a 17 year old boy, he HAD to confront him, and then he HAD to shoot him.
And anyone who says anything differently, is going to be accused of being a racist. Because calling out the inherent racism in our society is racist. Or something something.
Personal responsibility? That is only for those that cannot afford to slough it off onto someone else.
The bullies on the school ground? They never accept responsibility for anything. They just keep bullying everyone else into apologizing.
Oh, sorry, my face ran into your fist. I am so sorry.
I have always taken the full responsibility and the brunt of the consequences for my own actions.
But yanno? I am sick and fucking tired of taking the fall for their actions against humanity and the planet.
Added: A video rant of sorts. Assorted assholes, Canadian and US... Lots of swearing. I play this really loud.