Ten Things We Have Learned (Over And Over) From Politics

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I’m not a big fan of repetition. When something occurs over and over, it’s time to label it a fact or call it a given and move on. This apparently puts me at odds with a large swath of humanity, and the entirety of cable TV News, especially when that news is discussing politics.

So with the power vested in me, which is none, I hereby declare that there is no need to repeat the following observations. They have occurred regularly enough that they should simply be assumed to be the case unless proven otherwise. This should free up time for discussing other things. You’re welcome.

1. Those who claim they want there to be a free market generally want the free market for others but the subsidized market for themselves. If they are given the free market and it turns against their favor, they will scream for subsidies.
2. Those who complain about others’ family values often are far more twisted than those they complain about.
3. Those who complain that others are getting public assistance are also often getting public assistance in another form.
4. Many who say they want less government actually want more corporate power and less power for individual citizens.
5. Those who complain loudest about gays are often gay themselves, but are hiding this fact.
6. Those who claim to want war to rectify some injustice usually want war for some other reason. They just use the real or fabricated injustice as a way to get others interested.
7. Those who call for war rarely if ever go to war themselves or submit to any risk of their own.
8. Those who are explaining how a certain type of person thinks have often never spoken to that person or walked in the other’s shoes.
9. Most people advocate policies that harm others but are quick to change their minds when they realize those policies may harm them.
10. Most people don’t want to say simply “I don’t like that guy,” so they make up reasons why they don’t like a person, but those reasons are so insane their desire for a reasonable appearance defeats itself. It would be much easier to respect them if they said, “I just don’t like that guy,” instead of “That guy is a time-traveling space lobster pretending to be an American and that’s why I don’t like him,” or its intellectual equivalent.

Look at all the time I just saved you! Just in time for spring!

This item was originally posted on www.LarryNocella.com.