Post by indecankelly on Jul 16, 2012 20:21:12 GMT -5
This whole 99% Declaration could have been something great, but instead it is failing for the same exact reasons that organizations with weak leadership and disgruntled minions always fail. Because ideas are perfect and get obliterated when you add too many of the wrong people to the idea.
I'm not writing this for popularity, and I know some will misconstrue my words because they hit too close to home, and that they won't actually read my entire message but scan it (shame on you lazy bastards) and that some might say "what gives this person the right to say this", blah blah blah. I don't care. I've had enough babying some folks in this conversation. The reality is, it is needed to be said. Period.
If you don't like it, then grow up. Take some more classes, write some more blog posts, protest a few more parks, I don't care. Your petty pity party for one is destroying the common good.
There is a big ol' drunk elephant in the room of this 99% Declaration, and no one wants to be the bad guy to ask the elephant to leave.
You can not have an organization bear the name of the 99% when you continue to reflect only the most simplest value set of the 10% of liberals who agree with you. Anytime someone with practical ideas attempts to allude to a sense of pragmatism, or moderation, they are quickly shot down by some extremism who has a specific agenda, and is so low in their self-esteem and so mad at the powers who don't even know we exist. It's very sad, and very real. The loudest voices among us voice the most myopic and worst perspectives that could be voiced when calling it the 99%. What a wasted effort. What a sad, petty, wasted effort.
So much thought, so many ideas, and so much energy wasted on the same pathos roadblocks that have haunted our country for some time now.
Some may say, let's not fault what's happened in the past, let's just move forward, but the reality is that since we continue to not learn from our past mistakes, and we continue to repeat them, and so many folks want to not be "THAT PERSON" to point out the obvious, we all suffer in the end. And the more that we give credence to the voices of the selfish, we all fail in this effort.
I'm not writing this for popularity, and I know some will misconstrue my words because they hit too close to home, and that they won't actually read my entire message but scan it (shame on you lazy bastards) and that some might say "what gives this person the right to say this", blah blah blah. I don't care. I've had enough babying some folks in this conversation. The reality is, it is needed to be said. Period.
If you don't like it, then grow up. Take some more classes, write some more blog posts, protest a few more parks, I don't care. Your petty pity party for one is destroying the common good.
There is a big ol' drunk elephant in the room of this 99% Declaration, and no one wants to be the bad guy to ask the elephant to leave.
You can not have an organization bear the name of the 99% when you continue to reflect only the most simplest value set of the 10% of liberals who agree with you. Anytime someone with practical ideas attempts to allude to a sense of pragmatism, or moderation, they are quickly shot down by some extremism who has a specific agenda, and is so low in their self-esteem and so mad at the powers who don't even know we exist. It's very sad, and very real. The loudest voices among us voice the most myopic and worst perspectives that could be voiced when calling it the 99%. What a wasted effort. What a sad, petty, wasted effort.
So much thought, so many ideas, and so much energy wasted on the same pathos roadblocks that have haunted our country for some time now.
Some may say, let's not fault what's happened in the past, let's just move forward, but the reality is that since we continue to not learn from our past mistakes, and we continue to repeat them, and so many folks want to not be "THAT PERSON" to point out the obvious, we all suffer in the end. And the more that we give credence to the voices of the selfish, we all fail in this effort.