Hay Germans.

[feuervogel]

Do your right-wing politicians/newsmedia commentators compare housing co-ops to socialism?

Do you wonder why I want to get away from these yahoos?

Comments

[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

Psssh. Housing co-ops are clearly communism. Obviously.

[feuervogel]

OMG, not ... people cooperating and working together! We can't have that! And housing priced in a way that lets brown people afford to buy. Definitely can't have that.

[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

REASONABLY PRICED HOUSING IS DESTROYING AMERICA, DON'T YOU SEE THAT?

OR WAIT. Wasn't it unreasonably priced housing. I don't know. I can't remember. Maybe my television will tell me.

[feuervogel]

Clearly, it was giving brown people loans so they could buy more house than they could afford. It's all brown people's fault, never that of Wall Street or the bankers' deceptive lending practices.

[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

It's always the brown people. Always.

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

*Stares at your icon*

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

The tragedy of all of this is that if the GB crowd got what they think they want they would be terribly unhappy. I said a long, long, long time ago that the problem with (at the time) the Bush crowd was that they are listening to a fairy tale that they want to be told. That's why reason doesn't work, why facts and spreadsheats don't work, and they worship their "role models", Coulter, Beck, Limbaugh.

My father is a huge fan of Beck and used to mention ole Rush all the time. It has nothing to do with reality. It's a fantasy world and they will only accept people who keep feeding them their fantasy. Logic is not a part of the equation, only the bits that fit what they already want to believe. It's sort of a mass self hypnosis.

This guy will get massive points with people who have never seen and will never see New York City. It doesn't matter if it made sense to say it.

I've tried to cut back on things that seem like I'm bashing my own country. I recognize that we aren't the worst country in the world while at the same desperately wanting to see us all strive to be a better country. We're actually more of C+ at the moment but the scales seem to be at a point where they could tip either way.

But people like Beck are a problem not because he's a yahoo himself (one day ask me how much I loathe Anne Coulter) but because he's an exaggeration of a core of people who are living in a made up reality and who like to play white hat, black hat. I'm absolutely certain that Beck is just one head of a nasty hydra and even as his star fades two or three more just like him will pop up in his place.

The real question then becomes how do we wake up a group of people who don't want to awoken. Now that is a question that does make me ponder should I stay or should I go.

[feuervogel]

Do you follow Slacktivist's blog? He had a post on exactly that the other day, how these people live in this fairy tale world that makes them feel better.

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

No? I think Cam does? I've been off line for a couple of weeks so I haven't seen it regardless but if you have a link I would like to take a look at it.

[feuervogel]

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2011/01/fantasy-role-playing-games.html and the post previous (anti-Missourian best-sellers). He's got probably my favorite blog on religion and liberalism.

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Fantasy role playing game really is a smart way to look at it. It's all a matter of Let's Pretend but the consequences are devastating.

[kurai-seraphim.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, leaving the country won't shut him up. It's just one less vote against them.

[feuervogel]

I can still vote absentee. I know where the US Embassy is in Berlin. (It's in spitting distance of the Brandenburg Gate, near a Dunkin Donuts and a few tourist shops.)