Post-Game Nonsense and Reganomics

Following the Super Bowl, a series of emails flew into my inbox.  This is an excerpt from a chain that I took part in.  After debate about the game, one guy came back with this:

After you Seahawks fans who are all anti Brady and Belichick get done licking your wounds, belly aching and what could have been at the end of the day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Brady got the MVP trophy, the Lombardi trophy,  a new truck, a smoking hot Victoria Secret Brazilian supermodel, and his kids, a fat paycheck  for 2 weeks in Hawaii, Disney world, Bora Bora Maui. Life is good!

So I responded to him as such:

Your life is good when other people get paid? 

And we had the following exchange:

Just remember if it don’t make dollars then it don’t make sense.

So then your life ISN’T better when others get paid, cuz you’re not making dollars or sense?

Sharing the wealth paying it forward  blah blah blah. Just not as many dollars

So Tom Brady is paying you?

God  I wish

I want to point out all I did was ask questions, because I needed him to define himself before I cut him down.  If he were actually getting paid by Tom Brady, it would have made sense, but I suspected he wasn't.  Questions needed to be asked to clarify his stance, and only using weak questions (questions are weaker than statements), I was able to get him to say he was not making sense.  Point me, but better than that (as well as being my ultimate objective), he shut up.

I responded because the guy knew others were hurting but still gloated, as evidenced by his gloating after saying phrases like "licking your wounds" and "belly aching".  It is not okay in my world to gloat, let alone gloat while others are hurting, or to gloat while others are hurting about things you had no hand in accomplishing.  He then responded with a flip answer, "if it don't make dollars it don't make sense", which is a typical debate tactic taken by Republicans and my wife's attorney and ex to muddy the waters and not respond to the question, and I'm tired of it.  I'm tired of people not pressing the point into those who are avoiding with smoke.  So I pressed with my next question, asking if he was saying his life wasn't better because he 1) wasn't getting paid or 2) making sense.  He then responded, as all do who are pressed when they have thrown up a smoke screen, with dismissal.  "blah blah blah" indicates he doesn't even mean what he's saying, but he CONTINUES with the suggestion that he's making money by saying "just not as many dollars".  So I had to press more, asking if he's getting paid.  To which, he finally said no without saying "no", which is the best you can hope for with a conservative mind.

Conservatives and Republicans look towards rich people/corporations to give away their money, making others rich.  Reagan popularized this for our modern world with Reaganomics, or Trickle Down economics, which makes no sense.  Rich people/corporations aren't rich because they give away money. They are rich because they have money that they don't give away.  Warren Buffet is rich, his secretary is not, nor is his daughter whom he has cut out of his life.  You become rich by not giving away your money.  And thinking those who are rich will make you rich when they give away their money is dangerous for you, and makes you vote against your own best interests and mine, making it dangerous for me for you to think those ridiculously twisted thoughts.   

I am quickly coming to a place where I believe it to be a crime to be conservatively minded, as it is dangerous for anyone to listen to anything coming from a mind that is unable to consider options. 

One day, I'm going to snap under the weight of my own intellect and inability to stand for bullshit and stupidity and kill everyone.  And if you're reading this, thinking, "man, I don't want to be judged by this guy," then think about how many emails of yours I've posted on the Internet whilst calling you an idiot.  None?  Okay.  So I don't think you're an idiot and I haven't judged you.  Calm down.