Radicalism in DC?

[RozCat]

What about all the folks calling into WPFW? I tune in for comic relief from time to time. They pretty much hate everybody and everything.

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by The Heartbreak Kid

I want in the establishment. I been trying my best to get in. Sorry Coldbliss. I want some power and a steady future too.

1. Get a job on Capitol Hill

2. You don't really need to know anything. Just go to a lot of parties and fundraisers and make sure people like you. Good storytelling skills (fibbing) will come in handy.

3. Use your connects to throw fundraisers for all of your new "friends." Take them out to lunch every once in a while, too.

4. Do that for about 4 or 5 years.

5. Apply to K Street lobbying firm. Meet with your old "friends" over dinner on the firm's tab approximately 3 to 4 times per week. There's no shortage of restaurants in the city where you can run up a ridiculous tab with meals about the size of Lunchables. But it won't matter, remember, because you're not paying for it!

6. Create a firm profile page that makes your job seem harder than it really is so you can justify your outrageous billing rates to clients. Stuff involving a lot of acronyms always sounds good. There's no need for anyone to know that you really just push paper and BS at "power" lunches all day.

7. In all honesty, your clients won't care that you're billing them insane amounts of money. Because they hope to be where you are some day so they too can bill insane amounts of money. Besides, your clients will just pass the costs on to their customers and write off all of their expenses thanks to a very advantageous tax code.

8. "Summer" in some town in New England that has a Native American name. Gotta keep up with the Kennedys.

9. Enjoy your success to the fullest. Take pride in knowing that you worked hard to be where you are. Feel free to hold others in contempt for lacking the ingenuity and innovation that allowed you to accumulate a house west of the park, a Volvo station wagon/BMW 5 Series, and a summer home in Annapolis.

10. Enroll children in St. Albans or Sidwell Friends. This is tantamount to paying "pre-tuition" at an Ivy League college. This will allow them to be accepted at Dartmouth or Brown at the very minimum with sub-par GPAs and SAT scores. But unlike "affirmative action babies" from East Oakland and the South Bronx, nobody will ever question their qualifications due to their background. Everybody will direct their anger towards the Puerto Rican girl from Queens instead of the girl with the lower test scores from Georgetown Country Day who's legacy. Brilliant!

Just remember: You earned it. It's a meritocracy. You're a winner!

[jokerstars]

There's no room for utopian social environments

Thank god. Delusional socialists and their idea of 'planning' the perfect economy/society has caused more suffering and misery than you can imagine.

[coldbliss]

You are like that character called Cypher in "The Matrix" film.

He says: "I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"

In another scene in the movie, Cypher reveals:

"You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?"

"Ignorance is bliss."

I feel bad for you, Heartbreak Kid. Don't forget to take your "blue pill" medication before you go to bed tonight.

Originally Posted by The Heartbreak Kid

I want in the establishment. I been trying my best to get in. Sorry Coldbliss. I want some power and a steady future too.

[BajanYankee]

Coldbliss,

True radicals lead pretty crappy lives. Jesus was hated; his life wasn't fun. Dr. King was getting hit in the head with rocks. And we all saw what happened to Gandhi. I mean, people might respect you once you're dead and no longer a threat, but the Heartbreak Kid wants his reward here on Earth, not in Heaven. Can't say I blame him.

[jokerstars]

True radicals also send dissidents to the gulag and detonate homemade bombs in public areas.

Most lefty radicals will justify any means to their end. The end being an all-encompassing, controlling, and providing government that can engineer the "perfect" economy/society. The unruly mobs who attack or throw things at conservative/libertarian speakers are universities or want to censor politically incorrect speech...they're all cut from the same cloth. As someone who used to be part of the far left: It's 90% ideology/utopianism and 10% fact.

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by jokerstars

True radicals also send dissidents to the gulag and detonate homemade bombs in public areas.

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[The Heartbreak Kid]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

1. Get a job on Capitol Hill

2. You don't really need to know anything. Just go to a lot of parties and fundraisers and make sure people like you. Good storytelling skills (fibbing) will come in handy.

3. Use your connects to throw fundraisers for all of your new "friends." Take them out to lunch every once in a while, too.

4. Do that for about 4 or 5 years.

5. Apply to K Street lobbying firm. Meet with your old "friends" over dinner on the firm's tab approximately 3 to 4 times per week. There's no shortage of restaurants in the city where you can run up a ridiculous tab with meals about the size of Lunchables. But it won't matter, remember, because you're not paying for it!

6. Create a firm profile page that makes your job seem harder than it really is so you can justify your outrageous billing rates to clients. Stuff involving a lot of acronyms always sounds good. There's no need for anyone to know that you really just push paper and BS at "power" lunches all day.

7. In all honesty, your clients won't care that you're billing them insane amounts of money. Because they hope to be where you are some day so they too can bill insane amounts of money. Besides, your clients will just pass the costs on to their customers and write off all of their expenses thanks to a very advantageous tax code.

8. "Summer" in some town in New England that has a Native American name. Gotta keep up with the Kennedys.

9. Enjoy your success to the fullest. Take pride in knowing that you worked hard to be where you are. Feel free to hold others in contempt for lacking the ingenuity and innovation that allowed you to accumulate a house west of the park, a Volvo station wagon/BMW 5 Series, and a summer home in Annapolis.

10. Enroll children in St. Albans or Sidwell Friends. This is tantamount to paying "pre-tuition" at an Ivy League college. This will allow them to be accepted at Dartmouth or Brown at the very minimum with sub-par GPAs and SAT scores. But unlike "affirmative action babies" from East Oakland and the South Bronx, nobody will ever question their qualifications due to their background. Everybody will direct their anger towards the Puerto Rican girl from Queens instead of the girl with the lower test scores from Georgetown Country Day who's legacy. Brilliant!

Just remember: You earned it. It's a meritocracy. You're a winner!

Bajan, I got offered a job on the hill when I first got here and passed it up. It was a dumb move. I am now in the feds, I will be a GS-12 in December. Honestly, making 74k at 27 will be dang good. However, I think to reach my true potential and do the things that I really want to do, going to the Hill would be a good thing.

Sorry Coldbliss,
I want to work in Higher Education Policy. I must go into the Matrix. Please forgive me brother.