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America, once upon a time, was like Bugs Bunny: clever, witty, ingenius, always waiting to strike until after the first blow, in short, a gentleman with a sense of humor.
Now we're more like Daffy Duck.
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Okay, because I'm a complete killjoy, I have to take issue with a recent page of the comic Looking For Group. Sure, it's a cool idea to encase someone in ice in order to save them from the coming flow of lava, but sorry folks, it would just result in a pocket of superheated steam under a lot of pressure, because, you see, lava is really, really hot!
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We're more like daffy duck thanks to a liberal-run educational program.
Hmmmm. Would that be a liberal-run education system that encourages testing, thus propping up a testing industry with taxpayer money for the sake of uniformity? Wasnt NCLB a bi-partisan bill?
I'm not going to argue that the educational system in this country is much use, or that liberals havent had a hand screwing it up, because they certainly have. On the other hand, the "starve the beast" attitude toward government and taxes which has been Republican mantra for the last three decades hasnt helped any either.
Ultimately though, the blame rests less on the educational system than on the cultural attitudes. Daffy Duck is greedy and self-centered, and never does anything for anybody if it wont somehow pay off more for him in the end. Americans at one time at least gave lip-service to the idea of acting like Gentlemen, now we dont even try to pretend that we are, but simply act as if naked greed is somehow a divine (market) right and anything that involves the collective good is a call for the return of Soviet-style socialism.
The national call for "self-reliance" is nothing more than a disguised call for anarchy and a desire not to share one's cookies with anyone.
We've become a nation full of teenagers, grumbling how unfair everything is and how nobody loves us and why should we have to clean up someone else's mess when we didnt make it (even though we frequently had a hand in it). A nation is supposed to be a collective, where the members of that nation work together for the betterment of all. Current thinking, embodied in Republicans, is that every man for himself is somehow the right way to do things, and that anything that smacks of working together (except for the good of Business - always owned, controlled and beneficial towards someone else) is a bad thing.
America will continue to lose ground to other countries in the world until it starts working for the good of all its citizens, including the "undeserving" ones.
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