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2013-08-18 -Land of the Free

Thomas Donnelly: The Military Epidemics That Aren't

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 To be honest, I see childhood sexual abuse being pretty much solid bases for civilian diagnosis for PTSD, since it often is buried until adulthood, and is a trauma that is inflicted repeatedly and over a period of time in most cases, with no perceived ability to alter the trauma or stress for the victim.

But as for the rest of it? Yeah, I;ve seen that program before. The left never learns that patriotism truly does exist in some of us, unlike those poor morally degraded wretches they surround themselves with. And the left loves using psychiatry as a weapon - anyone remember the Gulags and their use of psychiatric diagnoses? What the hell is wrong with the left?

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-18 01:23|| 2013-08-18 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 What the hell is wrong with the left?

Too much indoctrination. They know they are smarter than the rest of us and so should tell us how to live our lives. And see to it that we do so.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-08-18 07:38|| 2013-08-18 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The biggest problem the Left has is the unwillingness to come to grips that much of its fundamental beliefs are founded on false pretenses. The economy isn't soaring. It must be saboteurs, it can't be because they don't understand basic economics. Over seven trillion dollars later and poverty is still here. The Left believes the poor remain poor because they're oppressed. It never enters their minds that the poor are co-conspirators to their own fate by the choices they freely make.

Part of the trap of believing you're operating from moral superiority, is the unwillingness to view the world from a different perspective. Talk about bigotry.

That's why in the end, when they start the fire, the outcome isn't going to be what they think it will be.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-18 08:28|| 2013-08-18 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 The economy isn't soaring. It must be saboteurs, it can't be because they don't understand basic economics.

The left indeed does have an understanding of economics. A healthy or "soaring economy" creates independence. A lagging or stalled economy creates government dependence.

Government dependence, coupled with a program of economic redistribution [social justice] is the desired end state.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-18 08:41|| 2013-08-18 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 That's not so much economics as a mean to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat which the 20th Century demonstrated as a failed system - well, failure with over 100 million dead.

One of the fundamental false economic precepts is that all workers are exploited. That carries over to their narrative that soldiers only enlist/are drafted because they have no other means or abilities. There can be no other explanation in their world.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-18 09:02|| 2013-08-18 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 "The Left believes the poor remain poor because they're oppressed. It never enters their minds that the poor are co-conspirators to their own fate by the choices they freely make."

True, P2k.

I'd love to see someone on the Right challenge one of these clowns to make the same choices for a couple of months. First, they need to quit their cushy jobs because they would have dropped out of high school and never gotten that job in the first place (and wouldn't have parents with enough pull to buy them a job, either). Then, they'll need to live on welfare, so they'll have to move out of their cushy apartments and go live in Section 8 housing. Then they need to spend most of their welfare money on chips, liquor, tattoos, etc. If they try to apply for a new job, they need to list themselves as high school drop-outs. Etc. OR, just insist that the bleeding-heart Leftie must hire one of these poor, "oppressed" people to work for the Lefty - as, say, a personal assistant, for at least 2 months.

Heads would explode and hilarity would ensue.

(Yes, I know some people ended up in low-income housing thru divorce with no child support coming in, or a serious illness, etc., but too many people on welfare set themselves up for it with their choices, which is what P2k's talking about.)

When I was in the rescue squad, many's the time I went into low-income housing for a call where the "adults" apparently had plenty of money for chips, candy, liquor, beer, and the like, but there was no sight of any fruit or fresh vegetables. Also, the kid's clothes were very well worn, and they were still wearing tennis shoes in December, but Mama could afford artificial nails, new tattoos, etc. AND, they thought everybody else owed them everything. >:-(

Choices, indeed.

Posted by Barbara 2013-08-18 10:52|| 2013-08-18 10:52|| Front Page Top

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