Grow up, already

[clevermanka]

From rjlippincott, a FOF adammaker, Glenn Beck: Too bad, Michigan and Florida.

When this story was getting coverage on NPR last week, I told mckitterick that I was disgusted (but alas not surprised) at the attitude of Florida's governor and someone else (a woman, can't remember who, maybe the head of the Democratic Party in Florida?). The woman actually used the phrase "civil disobedience" to describe the actions of the states who held their primaries in violation of party rules.

Guess what, chicky? It's not civil disobedience when you break the rules of an organization that you voluntarily joined. Don't you dare compare your petty little grab at the limelight to Alabama sit-ins or poll-crashing suffragettes. Just...don't. It makes you and your petulant cry-baby attitude that much more repulsive.

I'm not the only person in my generation who is horrified at herself for vocalizing the phrase "kids these days." And the "kids these days" includes a lot more than just kids. The problem's not loud music, promiscuity, binge drinking, recreational drug use--gods, I wish! No, it's so very much worse. It's an epidemic of selfish narrow-mindedness that doesn't show any sign of stopping soon. Personal responsibility is at an all-time low and the idea of individual integrity is so far gone I can't even see it from here.

Anyone got suggestions for how to get an entire nation on the track to maturity? I got nothin'.

Comments

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. In fact, it's really the DNC leadership in those states that screwed their memberships; leaders can't "civil disobedience" the rights away from their members. Leaders affecting the rights of those they lead... hmm, that smacks of something else....

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yes. See listing under "Bastards, all of them."