I accidentally listened to Idiot Laura Ingraham’s show yesterday (bc Mainers couldn’t possibly fund either Pacifica *or* NPR to have actual content at 11 am) and caught a bit where her stand-in Monica Crowley was raving about the awesome forced-labor factory summer camps that we should send our little Jaydens and Cadens and Brodies to, because Barack”chief metrosexual” Obama doesn’t care about manufacturing jobs, or some bullshit. And that kids never go outside or do anything and don’t know how to use their hands. Somehow, this isn’t their parents’ fault, but the fault of liberals, of course.
Then some woman called in, in tears mind you, to thank whoever the idiot woman hosting Monica Crowley for bringing this miracle to her son’s life. She was crying because she was so happy and thankful to have a horrible child-slave sweatshop to send her fat little buzzcut-sporting kid. (All neocons have fat kids with buzzcuts and retarded names, btw. ALL of them.)
THEN some grizzled old fart calls in to share this nugget:
“WE CAN THANK THE SOFTNESS OF OUR KIDS ON THE 40 YEARS OF PEACETIME WE’VE HAD.”
Yeah, it was that we didn’t have any awesome wars to fight, why America’s kids are such fucking jerks. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that, for the past 40 years, families can no longer afford for one parent to stay home and raise their own goddamned kids, so they feel so guilty when they come home from their 40+ hours away that they spoil the shit out of them. Obviously people could either plan better (hey, don’t have things you can’t afford, and that includes pets and babies!) or parent better (Baby Einstein makes your kid sit still because it’s ruining his brain, dipshit. Hold him and read to him, god.)
But we cannot absolve the American government, and we can never absolve the American rich. For they are the ones who have purposefully created an economic culture that prohibits middle, working, and lower class families from succeeding and thriving. They are the beneficiaries of torn, overworked, estranged and broken families, and even though we may love to scoff at the idiots who really have no business having children, they are simply behaving as they’ve been conditioned to, and they really deserve our (the collective thinking progressives) pity and aid, not our scorn.
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