* Most single people are disgruntled and unhappy, and therefore willing to try anything to fix their profound unhappiness. And if those wild attempts fail, they will accept the consolation prize of ruining others’ happiness. Flood the country with third-world criminals? Sure, why not, maybe a future lover is flushing in amongst the refuse. And if not, well then at least they will ruin the neighborhoods of those smiling suv-driving @rseholes and their oh-so-precious children.
Married people, especially who have children, are not unhappy- they are anxious and nervous. They have found what “works” for their household and society and wish to sink all other competition. There was a study making the clickbait rounds a while back about oxytocin making people more in-group oriented (or “racist” as the clickbaits paraphrased) and I definitely think it’s true, and also perfectly natural.
The seething, single, envious friend has been a trope in books and movies forever, but I think Kevin Bacon and Alec Baldwin portrayed the difference well in John Hughes’ She’s Having A Baby.
* While Sanders might not have the best record, his record is better than about 80% of his fellow democrats on immigration issues (and better than 90% of non-southern democrats), and he showed some balls in the Ezra Klein interview.
If HRC had been asked the same question, rather than give an intellectual defense of the idea of national borders like Sanders did, she would have ducked the question with mealy BS about how immigration enriches America.
* I like Sanders for 2 reasons.
1. He also helps shift the overton window on the left. He makes it acceptable for left-wing Democrats to be anti-immigration. If Trump takes the Whitehouse, Sanders could help him pass a bill to end H1b permanently.
2. If the Trump candidacy collapses, Sanders could be our go-to guy.
While Trump is the best candidate overall, Sanders is far better than any of the other Republicans and highly preferable to Clinton.
* Back in the early 80s, I had to take a sociology class. The big meme was ‘wife battering’ and how those married men were constantly beating wives.
So then the internet provides access to data from law enforcement, the CDC, etc. to actual other than stuff ‘provided’ by feminist professors. I remember male students objecting to the data and the female prof would say “emperical data”.
And it turns out that the absolute safest place for a woman was at home with her husband.
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* The Trumpening, has landed. It is, strong, and powerful, and, unwavering, The Trumpening is.
The matrix, has been, breached, and, is being, exposed, at this moment, exposed, more, and more each day, exposed. By The Trumpening, exposed.
Elites, hostile, have, defecated on what is pure, and clean, good, right. The Trumpening has come. It will not, go, will stay, and, grow. The matrix, shattering.
America will, no longer, be, a, sucker, and a whore, from within, or without. The Trumpening is, real, the, expression of, not one, but a people, blood, soil, nation. Boiling frog awakens, a nation does.
* I think that Sanders is actually less electable than Trump. What is electable? Ask David Brooks because it’s a quality that the media made up. Bill Clinton by rights should have been unelectable. What a scoundrel.
* Great point, Aamirkhanfan, about “electability” being a fabricated term. It’s 100% content-free.
My guess is that it was coined by the political class, probably by consultants, as a way to (a) divert big donations toward a small coterie of client pols, (b) protect incumbents, and (c) exclude attractive insurgent candidates. True to form, the media would have picked up on the term because it seemed like “insider” jargon, and aping it made them feel smart and worldly-wise.
I agree, too, about Clinton being a scoundrel. It’s obvious, I know; but nothing illustrates that description better than the fact that we’re still stuck with him, jockeying for attention and notoriety 15 years after he left office. An ex-president of any gravity would have faded away into contemplative retirement; one with even a shred of decency would have slunk away into obscure hedonism, in penance for his malign cultural effect on the society.
Instead, we have the grotesque spectacle of the celebrity ex-president–with another one surely on deck (assuming he deigns to leave office).
