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Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Annee
First off, Gingrich is a hypocritical ass.
Second, teaching good work habits (or poor) spreads across all social strata.
Originally posted by InfaRedMan
reply to post by beezzer
Sadly, if you have losers for parents, the probability is low that you will be too much different.
IRM
Originally posted by InfaRedMan
reply to post by beezzer
Thought there are always exceptions to every rule, stereotypes exist which is why we need do devise a word to describe the 'social phenomena' in the first place. Sadly, if you have losers for parents, the probability is low that you will be too much different. The cycle is hard to break. While there's something to be said in the nature/nurture debate, I definitely believe that people have genetic neurological predispositions in the same way we can have physical ones. The real problem is that there's too much political correctness these days to acknowledge it.
IRM
Originally posted by Danbones
reply to post by Annee
That was why I agreed with both your posts Beezer and Annee
it isn't a party issue
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by Danbones
reply to post by Annee
That was why I agreed with both your posts Beezer and Annee
it isn't a party issue
I noticed - - both names.
No it is not a party issue. There was no reason to make it one either.
Some posters just feel the need to put that slam in every thread.
Postscript
Nietzsche… has a description… of the disgust and disdain which consume him at the sight of the common people with their common faces, their common voices, and their common minds. …[T]his attitude is almost beautiful if we may regard it as pathetic… When he makes us feel that he cannot endure the innumerable faces, the incessant voices, the overpowering omnipresence which belongs to the mob, he will have the sympathy of anybody who has ever been sick on a steamer or tired in a crowded omnibus. Every man has hated mankind when he… has had humanity in his eyes like a blinding fog, humanity in his nostrils like a suffocating smell. But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of strong wills, it is necessary to point out the truth. It is an aristocracy of weak nerves.
G. K. Chesterton, Heretics, p. 185 (published in 1905)
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck
What I don't understand is this constant need to categorize.
I don't know this guys' politics, but I'd bet that he's a progressive democrat.
Originally posted by LifeInDeath
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by AnIntellectualRedneck
What I don't understand is this constant need to categorize.
I don't know this guys' politics, but I'd bet that he's a progressive democrat.
Which guy, the interviewer or the guy being interviewed? The guy being interviewed, the guy who says these things, states very clearly that he is a Libertarian, not a progressive Democrat. The title of the article is "Journey into a Libertarian Future." If anything, his views are diametrically opposed to progressive Liberalism.