{"id":2900,"date":"2020-01-31T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T19:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T19:44:42","slug":"stream-of-consciousness-weariness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"Stream Of Consciousness Weariness."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m tired. So tired. I have been a Republican all of my life, extant. I have seen presidents come and go. Some I liked and some I didn\u2019t. I never, EVER<\/em>, thought of any of them as being worth anything more than a smack down in an op-ed or, more recently, on \u201csocial\u201d media. I didn\u2019t like Obama. I didn\u2019t like what he promised and then how he changed when he got the big chair. He promised that we would all burn our \u201crace card\u201d, only to divide this Republic to a point not seen since the mid-eighteenth century.  Still, I didn\u2019t protest. I didn\u2019t run, masked, in the streets torching cars and beating old men in MAGA hats with sticks and spraying old ladies with mace.  I didn\u2019t fall to my knees shrieking to the heavens upon his re-election. I wouldn\u2019t have done so had Hillary, (G\/DS SAVE US!), have been elected. Hell\u2019s bells\u2026I didn\u2019t like her husband, either. For that matter, I wasn\u2019t all that keen on 41 or 43!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT has CHANGED? You\u2019re a Democrat? Yeah? So? Wanna talk? Cool! Want to scream talking points over me while I\u2019m trying to make a valid argument? You lost me. Calling for violence in the street? Calling for dismissal of a professor holding an opposing viewpoint at college? Shutting down guest speakers for being \u201cracist\u201d, \u201csexist\u201d, \u201chomphobic\u201d or any other *.ist or *.phobe that some rabble-rouser Womyns\u2019 Underwater Rythmic Placemat Weaving professor, (hey, it\u2019s YOUR major, not mine), on your campus claims them to be?  Calling for boycotts of movies and eateries, (or \u201ccreate a crowd\u201d as some \u201cprogressive\u201d politicians have recommended you do, when people who disagree with you are eating or out on a date?), since WHEN are tantrums, (over the age of, say, 2 1\/2), such as this \u201cokay\u201d?  Some of my other social essays delve into that question a little more deeply but, suffice it to say that the terms \u201cpajama boy\u201d, snowflake\u201d and others assigned the latter-day millennials and Generation X are not without worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just had what I thought was a question. Now, dammit, I had to write an essay. So shall it be. But, in the meantime? DISCUSS.  COMMENT as you see FIT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m tired. So tired. I have been a Republican all of my life, extant. I have seen presidents come and go. Some I liked and some I didn\u2019t. I never, EVER, thought of any of them as being worth anything more than a smack down in an op-ed or, more recently, on \u201csocial\u201d media. I didn\u2019t<\/p>\n

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