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There are clearly a lot of people in this country who do not understand the difference between want and need.
Just because your "want" is strong or intense, that does not make it a "need".
Lots of very immature adults in this country.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)They want minorities to get out or be forced out.
They want women to act like women. If women refuse, they call them a lesbian or feminazi
They want to be rich and famous. If they don't get all that they blame it all on Liberals.
They want us to believe in God if they can't convince us, they tell us to go to hell.
They want guns not just for hunting, but to look like a macho man
If we pass sensible gun laws or try to take it away from them they'll refuse and make 3d printed guns.
Their values and beliefs are a cancer to America.
catbyte
(34,403 posts)Just a twisted sense of entitlement combined with willful ignorance and selfishness.
lame54
(35,294 posts)catbyte
(34,403 posts)I've been wondering if many Americans will have the same sort of epiphany you have once this is all over or even while we're still going through it. I wonder if they'll ask themselves why they need to purchase something once again that they were able to live without quite comfortably over the past three months.
My personal opinion is that we'd be a much better society and more content if we'd stop chasing the next shiny doo dad.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)but the post office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked ...
Grandpa died last week and now hes buried in the rocks
but everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked ...
... the senator came down here showing everyone his gun ...
... and now people just get uglier ...
And I say Aw come on now: you know you know about my debutante
and she says Your debutante just knows what you need
but I know what you want ...
.. here I sit so patiently, waiting to find out what price
you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice ...
crickets
(25,981 posts)Traildogbob
(8,756 posts)By immature generations that used TV and games to
Occupy them. Spoiled, given everything to keep em quite. Now they own war toys and their tantrums are much more deadly than screaming in a stores. Wait...they are doing that, and spraying virus into faces, for their freedumb. Possibly giving death sentences to others. Can we apply stand your ground tactics when our life is threatened? Works for Florida murders. Spreading virus is more life threatening than skittles.
DemoTex
(25,399 posts)paleotn
(17,931 posts)gab13by13
(21,360 posts)the cause of all misery is wanting.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)paleotn
(17,931 posts)Several generations have benefited from the greatest economic expansion in American history. And though the last 25 years have seen the impact of that expansion stall for most of them, they still feel entitled simply because of who they are. White Amurkins. They're soft, pudgy, and completely inflexible in their views on virtually anything. Like small cave fish, they've adapted to a unique environment called "soft Amurka" and can survive no where else. Interestingly, the adaptability once noted as a strength in their ancestors is now completely absent from their genome. And though they don't know it, they're one extinction event away from party's over and living like everyone else. Not badly I don't think, but not like white Amurkins for sure. Another interesting note is in their bubble they're free from the consequences of not taking their precious franchise seriously and wasting it on conspiratorial nuttery. And that nuttery may bring on the extinction event.
dlk
(11,569 posts)Time to grow up. In addition to widespread immaturity, there is also a widespread epidemic of mental illness in this country that is no longer as invisible as it once was.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)at Crackerbarrel. Nope.