Although I’m still capable of writing some excellent rants, when I go back and read some of my stuff when I first started this blog, I seem to have mellowed. Maybe because I’ve gotten older. Maybe because I’ve retired and don’t have to put up with some of the corporate bullshit that is endemic with large corporations like having to attend annual Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) classes or having to function within a bureaucracy and work for and around stupid people.
A person I know started work for a large corporation a few years back and told me she now understands some of the crap I had to put up with when I worked for IBM. Don’t get me wrong, IBM was very very good to me but large corporations like IBM put up many road blocks to productivity one of them being “valuing Diversity (All Hail Diversity!)”.
Many hours were wasted by bullshit programs, like periodic quality programs that management swears will not be like the previous quality programs. This time they really mean it. Six Sigma. Five Ups. Market Driven Quality. All of it a colossal waste of time. All the reorganizations to reflect the latest theories from management schools derived by people who have never managed anything. It is really very simple. Hire the best people, tell them what you want them to do, give them the tools they need, and get out of the way and let them do their jobs. In my 31.5 years at IBM I worked for three managers who understood that.
I’m getting tired of the stupidity of my fellow citizens, citizens who elected an unqualified empty suit to president because of the color of his skin. “Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) and white guilt has been hammered into the American populace for so long it was easy to present a black dude who could effectively (to some people – he has no effect on me – I hate watching his head jerk back and forth like he’s watching a tennis match) read words, written by others, off a TelePrompTer and convince the voters that he was qualified to be president and it was high time we elected a black dude to prove we weren’t racist. And the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party did such a good job covering for him even going so far as taking his side in one of the debates and ganging up on Mittens (Thank you you fat tub of goo, Candy Crawley) even though she was wrong. And Mittens allowed it. He should have jumped right into her shit and said he was debating Obungler and not her.
Dumb voters. One of my IBM buddies told me the day of the 2012 election that he voted for Oblunder because he “kept us out of a depression”. This guy was one of my mentors when I was in the Mattel Office Products Division of IBM. I used to think he was smart. I retired at 58. He’s 68 and is still working but not at IBM. Turns out he’s not as smart as I once thought he was.
Anyway, I saw this post at Daily Pundit which pretty much captures my mood.
And that post bored me blind. Most of what I’m posting these days bores me blind. Our entire public square is consumed with “controversies” that serve only to mask several obvious truths. I’m going to make a list of those, and I could probably simply provide a link to the list for 99% of the “news stories” likely to pop up over the next few years.
1. Television and print journalism are horribly biased to the left. Duh.
2. There is a Ruling Class, consisting of very rich people and corporations, who, in toto, rule America via political surrogates, generally through oligarchic families. Duh.
3. The Ruling Class has a political party, call it the Ruling Party, which is made up of politicians financially and otherwise indebted to the Ruling Class who do their bidding. Duh.
4. George W. Bush was not a great President, and he was a terrible failure in the War on Muslim terrorism – including in Iraq. Duh.
5. Barack Obama is a radical leftist, verging on full Marxist, who is pushing a destructive, anti-American agenda as hard as he can – and, thanks to cooperation from both wings of the Ruling Party, pushing it quite successfully. Duh.
6. Republican and Democrat establishments have far more in common with each other, and are far more comfortable with each other, than either are with their bases. Although the GOP establishment is more comfortable with the Democrat base than with its own. Duh.
7. We have not “won” a real war since WWII, because our Ruling Class has chosen not to win any of the wars that have come after. Duh.
8. The United States government has become, effectively, a tyranny – with the consent of ignorant, stupid, frightened voters whom it would embarrass the Founders and Framers to represent. Duh.
9. A minority-majority of Americans – that is, a majority of voters, but a minority of all Americans – has discovered that it can vote to itself other people’s money – either through direct taxation/confiscation, or through borrowing, or through the creation of fiat money – and is in the process of guaranteeing that American will eventually collapse into bankruptcy. Duh.
10. However bad you think things are now, they are going to get worse – a lot worse, and that worsening is going to directly affect you. Duh.
None of this is anything new. I’ve been writing and saying, in one form or another, these same things, over and over, for years now. Every new year proves them more and more accurate. But eventually, having repeated myself dozens of times, I grow bored. Sorry. It’s just the name of the game. Pointing out that the sky is blue, the sun rises in the east, and that the media is biased toward the left (along with almost all of the Ruling Class) just gets old after a while.
I could have written this exact post. I feel the same way. I’m gonna keep fighting the same fight and writing the same things for as long as I can but sometimes it is boring writing obvious truths. It is so sad to see the United States of America commit suicide due to a biased media, stupid voters, moochers, looters, leeches, parasites, and craven politicians who care more about personal power than they do about this country. But it is so hard to write about this stuff every day and still see things getting worse.
If Obumbler had been white there is no way he would have been elected. That’s obvious. With his record after four years there is no way that he should have been reelected. That should be obvious, but when you have dumb voters, a candidate afraid to really fight and unable to fight against Obummercare since it was modeled after Mittenscare, and a biased media, you get another four years of a SCoaMF. And we see the results of that two years later.
I still feel that within the next thirty years this country will become a socialist dictatorship. Oboner is showing just how easy it will be, just like Sulla did at Rome. Fortunately for me, I won’t see it. It is sad enough watching the beginning of the end.