Yes, a lot of stupid things are happening. But Jonah Goldberg has said something, so nothing exists that is more stupid. Be glad as regards such Eternal Verities, redsnouts.
One thing nearly everybody agrees upon is that the "sequester" is a silly sideshow to the real challenge facing America: unsustainable spending on entitlements.
Omigod no. "Nearly all privilged morons" agree as to this, but it's total bullshit.
Ironies abound.
Fuck you.
Democrats, with large support from young people, tend to believe that we must build on the legacy bequeathed to us by the New Deal and the Great Society. Republicans, who marshaled considerable support from older voters in their so-far losing battle against Obamacare, argue that we need to start fresh.
Young people want the benefits that old people get. Old people want the benefits that old people get. It's ironic, precisely like rain on your wedding day.
Perhaps it's time for both sides to consider an underappreciated fact of American life: The system we are trying to perpetuate was created for the explicit benefit of the so-called greatest generation, the most coddled and cared for cohort in American history.
Those Depression-surviving, Hitler-whipping pussies.
I don't mean to belittle or demean the heroic efforts and sacrifices of those who served in World War II. But the idea that a whole generation deserves credit for what only some did is little more than an attempt to buy glory on the cheap. One of the egalitarian precepts that all Americans are supposed to subscribe to is the idea that one citizen isn't more worthy than another, simply by accident of birth. If you stormed the beaches of Normandy, you are due praise and honor. If you were simply born the same year as those who stormed the beaches, you're no more deserving of praise than someone born of any other generation.
Golly. Well, so much for you, Little Jimmy collecting scrap metal for the War Effort, you selfish little prick. Fuck you and your flatfooted uncle!
My paternal grandfather was rejected for service in WWII because he was the sole provider for three generations; my maternal grandfather was color-blind. Both volunteered and were turned down. Both did everything they could to help out on the Home Front. Working class people of that generation are justifiably proud of their contributions to The Effort.
My grandmothers also existed, and would have proudly punched Hitler if they had the chance.
Thank you, Jonah Goldberg, for explaining why all the women of the WWII generation are dishwasher boring!
Jonah Goldberg is talking fantastic shit.
I don't mean to belittle or demean the heroic efforts and sacrifices of those who served in World War II. But the idea that a whole generation deserves credit for what only some did is little more than an attempt to buy glory on the cheap.
This is... what you'd expect from Jonah Goldberg.
But it's revealing.
I don't think the Jonah Goldbergs among us much admire the US that beat Hitler, and the Great Depression. They don't want a strong nation that looks out for its own in the face of enemies foreign or domestic.