Reflections From a Murky Pond

I’ve always been against Citi Bike, at least in NYC. To me, it just seemed to be yet another part of Mayor Bloomberg’s hate for- and attack upon drivers. Yet, it wouldn’t have taken that much to change my opinion.

So, Citi Bike

Truly! It wouldn’t have taken much thought on the part of some marketing firm to come up with ways to get me and a lot of others to have a more positive attitude towards Citi Bike’s bike rental program. 😉

Hillary Clinton, while speaking a select group of wealthy queers in New York City last Friday, said that fully 50% of Donald Trump’s supporters were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and/or islamaphobic. She bluntly and openly described them – a very conservatively estimated 22 million American voters – as a basket of deplorables i.e. as deserving of strong condemnation due to shock, fear, or disgust they engender.

Rather than choose to be offended by Hillary’s declaration, I decided to think about what she said objectively and to take into account the greater context of Hillary’s words, audience, and cultural history. Doing so has allowed me to realize that this is just another case where the Left confuses facts and truth.

The simple and sad fact is that, within the context of how Liberals, Progressives, and those who they enable and pander to have mis-defined various form of bigotry and expanded what they consider examples thereof, we are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and/or islamaphobic. Indeed, given their beliefs, it’s not just 50% of Donald Trump’s supporters who are so deplorable; it’s entirety of the White population of America who is so …or at least so their oikophobic ideology forces them to believe. Their only internal conflict is when an individual with one “protected trait” is perceived by them to have attacked another with a different “protected trait.” Then, suffer from hysterical paralysis until they can determine the hierarchy of victimology.

So what is truly deplorable and abhorrent to Americans is not what Hillary said. It is what her followers truly believe and that is deplorable indeed.

Capitalism vs. Socialism

Despite the oft-ranted delusions of the Left, this does sum up the contrast between Capitalism and Socialism in the real world as opposed to the academic fantasy utopia that certain sorts insist in living in. Only in the case of a very few, very small, very wealthy countries has Socialism worked at all…and in those few countries it is maintained through strict laws, e.g., stringent immigration laws, that the Liberals and Progressives within America hate, loath, and deplore.

Hillary’s Unhealthy Incredibility

There’s a great deal of truth to idea that concerns over Hillary Clinton’s health greatly increased after she declared that she was healthy. I even would posit that the most unhealthy thing about Hillary is her utter and complete incredibility. I really don’t think anyone believes anything she says because everyone knows that she’ll whatever seems to benefit her the most at that moment.

But that’s Hillary and her medical condition(s) are, as dangerous as they may be, far less unhealthy than the fact that her supporters don’t care. That’s the sort of pathology that is a deadly plague upon America.

Batshit Crazy? Who Did Decide It Was The Craziest?

Take a moment – not too long though – and think about it. Who did decide that, of all the shit in the world, bat shit was the craziest?