“Hey, you got your zealotry in my jingoism!”
“You got your jingoism in my zealotry!”
“Mmmm… this tastes like SHIT!”
There are two teams – the pro-religious-war team, and the anti-religious-war team. Right now, ISIS, Trump, various neo-cons, professional Islamophobes like Pam Gellar, anyone who makes comments like “nuke Mecca” or “turn the Middle East into a parking lot”, and similar, are all on the pro-religious-war team. They all want a giant clash of civilizations, and they think this will positively resolve the current conflicts.
Just like the guy who shot the Dallas cops and the guy who shot up the black church in South Carolina are both on the same team – the pro-race-war team.
Why? The demographic most likely to vote now are aging Boomers more worried about getting their meds adjusted than the future of the country. The demographic least likely to vote are young people, the future of America, on whom political choices will have the greatest impact.
Au contraire (besides being a really tacky thing to say). Those Boomers have grandchildren and care a lot more about the future of the country than we did when we were in our 20s and 30s.
With regards to George Carlin: “Think of how stupid the average person is. Well, half of them are even stupider!”
And everyone who laughs at that joke thinks they’re in the other half.
I’m pretty smart, and I would be much relieved to believe that most Americans were smarter than me. I would just go fishing and let them handle things. I’m smart enough to be lazy, by golly!
Dunning, meet Kruger. Kruger, Dunning.
That joke aaaalmost makes sense. In a meta way, because you think you’re being clever, it has it’s charm.