Government-Hating Circle-Jerk Echo Chamber

The Old Lady says I should trademark or copyright that phrase.  Would that I could.  I came up with the phrase "Government-Hating Circle-Jerk Echo Chamber" after receiving numerous e-mails from a relative.  E-mails that were either Far-Right in nature or extremely racist Anti-Obama ones.  I have known for years that there are groups of individuals that send e-mails around to lists of people in their e-mail contacts.(Having been inflicted to e-mails by more than one individual.)  It was just recently that I thought of these groups as an electronic 'Circle-Jerk'.  The other two parts of the phrase are self-explanatory, everything from the Never-RightWingNut fringe is "Government-Hating".  Most of the e-mails are circulated to like-minded people so as to form an "Echo Chamber", because they keep reinforcing each other with these e-mails.  The sad fact is they don't think before they click on "Forward" and in this case the box should be labeled "Backward"!!

In a post last week I mentioned going back and forth with this person on FB.  (Actually I would have been better off arguing with a stump, at least when you get tired of arguing with the stump, you can sit on it and rest.)  One of the final straws was an e-mail about your order has been backordered and said due to explosive demand your order is backordered.  Then when you scrolled down there was a picture of Obama on an urinal cake holder in an urinal.  Now as much as I despise aWol, I would never do anything like this to him.  In fact, I wouldn't piss on aWol if he was on fire!!!

 

As a result of this and other racist e-mails, I sent him a goodbye e-mail asking him if his God was OK with his ignorance and bigotry??  His response was a reply that said "God loves you", like I give a shit about whether or not his imaginary friend likes me!!!!  He is one of the lunatic fringe that scares me, a Bible-Banging NRA nut.

The sad part is we grew up together are were good friends most of the time.  His father claims his ex-wife drove him crazy and he may have a point.  Seems like he got to be worse while he was a civilian employee for an Army aircraft facility in Texas.  While he hated Texas, working there seemed to reinforce the Hard-RightWing Military mindset.  He unfriended me on Facebook, but I'll survive.

Barbarians

"Civilization is unnatural, it is a whim of circumstance, and barbarism must always ultimately triumph" Robert E. Howard.

Barbarian according to Wikipedia.

"A barbarian is an uncivilized person....."


There are lots of "Barbarians" around these days and they don't dress like these guys in the Capital One commercial. Most of them are wearing three piece suits, people like Grover Norquist, Dick Armey, et al...... Grover Norquist is definitely a barbarian, he has boasted that he wants to reduce government to the size where he can drown it in a bathtub!! He is talking about destroying government as we know it. (If that isn't barbarism, I don't know what is!!) Also you have Dick Armey and who knows how many other rich barbarians (here's one) funding things like the Tea Bag Express and other Tea-Baggers. Deluding all those poor bastards into working against their own interests by telling them they are working to return life to the way it was in the 50's TV shows. (Hey Folks, that was fiction created in the place you Tea-Baggers hate, Hollywood!! It never happened and never will!!)

I also include in this group all those who don't want to pay any taxes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr once said:
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
All those who claim they shouldn't have to pay any taxes are barbarians regardless of where they fall on the income scale!!