I try to have this conversation (which I call the "bootstrap fallacy") with my Republiqan friends. They seem to lack the ability to comprehend that without a level playing field (to use a metaphor which they can comprehend) there are no "bootstraps" that are not on the bottom of the boot pointing down.
I try to have this conversation (which I call the "bootstrap fallacy") with my Republiqan friends. They seem to lack the ability to comprehend that without a level playing field (to use a metaphor which they can comprehend) there are no "bootstraps" that are not on the bottom of the boot pointing down.
To tell them that the "great wealth" of this country in the early days was built on slave labor, and continued with all but slave labor in the early industrial age is to be met with either a blank stare, or a carefully crafted "nuh-uh".
That “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” originally meant to describe the impossible. One cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps; it is physically impossible. To tell a person to do that puts that person in an impossible, no-win situation. For R’s, that’s the whole point, just like cruelty was the whole point in family separation at the border.
These are former coworkers; not people that I call true friends. I have been hopeful that some common sense would enter into their pretty little heads, but have come to the conclusion that they have "drunk the kool-aid" and are now deep into the amygdala-tickling hatred of "other".
I try to have this conversation (which I call the "bootstrap fallacy") with my Republiqan friends. They seem to lack the ability to comprehend that without a level playing field (to use a metaphor which they can comprehend) there are no "bootstraps" that are not on the bottom of the boot pointing down.
To tell them that the "great wealth" of this country in the early days was built on slave labor, and continued with all but slave labor in the early industrial age is to be met with either a blank stare, or a carefully crafted "nuh-uh".
That “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” originally meant to describe the impossible. One cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps; it is physically impossible. To tell a person to do that puts that person in an impossible, no-win situation. For R’s, that’s the whole point, just like cruelty was the whole point in family separation at the border.
Democrats "give a (wo)man a hand up". Including immigrant families.
I applaud you for continuing to try to communicate the idea to them.
Get better friends or you will never get that boot off your neck.
These are former coworkers; not people that I call true friends. I have been hopeful that some common sense would enter into their pretty little heads, but have come to the conclusion that they have "drunk the kool-aid" and are now deep into the amygdala-tickling hatred of "other".