The Squeeky Wheel in America?

[Retroit]

People have an innate desire to create enemies. It was probably linked into our DNA during caveman days to ensure our survival. Right now the most despised "enemy du jour" is the conservative Christian white male capitalist.

[11thHour]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

Common sense has been replaced with "fear of offending".

What makes me sad is that people give in so quickly. It's like that bacon issue. The restaurant had a small sign on a lamp post with the restaurants slogan. Some whacko gets bent out of shape, and the restaurant immediately pulls the sign and apologizes. They literally apologized about the word "bacon".

Yep. Our culture is becoming obsessed with PC, and places fear of offending someone above common sense. I don't understand it. I'm fairly left of center, but I don't understand other liberals' obsession with being pc. Life is offensive. Deal with it.

[eddiehaskell]

Originally Posted by Retroit

People have an innate desire to create enemies. It was probably linked into our DNA during caveman days to ensure our survival. Right now the most despised "enemy du jour" is the conservative Christian white male capitalist.

Probably right. My guess is that we'll never reach utopia. Heck, one day we may have people advocating for the extinction of humans to save the planet. Or maybe they'll want to do away with physical bodies and have a person's brain uploaded to the matrix. I can see it now "why do you hang on to your old fashioned desire for a physical body when living in the matrix is identical to living in the physical world?".

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by MidwestRedux

PCH has a good point though, we really do need to do something about the country being run by ultra-conservative billionaires like George Soros.

Cute.

Now let's see if you can name the ultraconservative billionaires (hint: they're brothers) who are behind, or are major funders, of the following:

Citizens for a Sound Economy
Americans for Prosperity
Cato Institute
Freedom Partners
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Generation Opportunity
Mercatus Center
Institute for Humane Studies
Institute for Justice
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
Institute for Energy Research
Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
Heritage Foundation
Manhattan Institute
George C. Marshall Institute
Reason Foundation
American Enterprise Institute
American Legislative Exchange Council

That's an awful lot of power and influence for just two people, don't you think?

[MidwestRedux]

You should check out some of the stuff on the CATO website. It's purely libertarian, often not at all in congruence with the GOP. You will find plenty of lefty money supporting much more extreme groups than the ones listed above. This would include media organizations that also get taxpayer money, like PBS.

For an even better example of a multi-billion dollar corporation influencing politics, look at where the left's talking point of the day (tax inversions) came from:
Tax Analysts -- News Analysis -- Will New Anti-Inversion Measures Save Allergan?

Of course when the Obama administration took over GM, they had Delphi, GM's parts unit, move its headquarters to the UK on paper for one reason... You guessed it, to pay a lower tax rate!

Now that is corrupt political opportunism at its finest.

May he who is without corruption cast the first post. (I might have butchered that reference, I'm not religious.)

[Utopian Slums]

I'm a bit suspicious of this story. Never heard of someone being singled out for Halloween decor. Can you provide a link please? I could not find one online.

[Atalanta]

America is beginning to disgust me to the core of my gut!!