Maturity

Go to Turkey. Visit the shops in Istanbul where they sell carpets. Be invited in for a beer and a meal.

They will serve delicious apple tea.

But really, it’s the whole experience. And that’s the best tea.

Is it potentially learned helplessness, and they are enabled in other aspects of life?

Fostered and inculcated by the plethora of churches across the land, who also DON’T PAY TAXES. They are a cancer, rotting us from within.

The punchline lands like a DNC-run election.

Oh he does, he does.

The moral of this story is that old white men can’t be trusted. --Aesop

I want the time I spent reading this back.

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Low information voters are Republican mana.

Well, Controlled Opposition is a lucrative field, friend. You just won’t find it on Indeed.

Well that’s just unhygienic on two counts

Let the cat flow through you

Let’s not forget the network of churches fomenting regressive lessons, for decades.

I would say just less likely

The beginning and end of Leadership is accountability. The Dems refuse to accept their part in this loss.

The President and Vice President have zero outward indications that this is personally painful to them, at all. If anything, they seem relieved to be passing the potato. If they are so out of touch, or so insulated from the pernicious outcomes of their doleful stewardship of this country, then WHY should voters place their trust in that party again, considering it’s been helmed and staffed by the same obstinate members for decades?

I don’t see Leadership, I see a kind of craven capitulation, at a time when America most needs its leaders to have fire in their bellies, and compassion in their eyes.

I was just making a joke, but you’re right- it’s a learned coping mechanism from iteration after iteration of excruciating relationships.

I find most people are deeply selfish and lacking in awareness, and generally unobservant to the physical and metaphorical world around us. Eventually, it’s simply easier to withdraw and try to be content with online human interaction, and real life experiences with my family and my dog. Community comes with too many strings and demands that I present as someone not myself- at least in all such attempts to-date. When I was younger and it felt more necessary to participate, I dulled society with booze and weed. Now I prefer to see clearly, though perhaps still missing the clarity that others innately possess, in social scenarios.

So you’re saying I should make friends with people who also intensely dislike people?

This is not too far off from the reality in CA where voters essentially mandated prisoners to be used as wild-fire fighting fodder.

“I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly. Together we’ve changed America for the better. Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let’s make every day count.”

Jesus fucking Christmas. Nothing will penetrate his perfect shield of fantasy.