Notice a trend?

[RB TexLa]

I don't have what I want because of the corrupt EU.

I don't have what I want because of the mean black president.

I don't have what I want because of NAFTA.

I don't have what I want because of the big banks.

I don't have what I want because of people who shouldn't be here.



Funny how those who think that blame everyone and everything . . . . . . . EXCEPT for themselves.

[Rex]

1. lulz

[demmiblue]

9. x infinity

[Rex]

15. 'Funny how those who think that blame everyone and everything'

those who think

[TDale313]

2. Yeah, pull yer selves up by them bootstraps

No systemic issues here. Btw, huge ducking difference between scapegoating and pointing out the fact that there is a huge level of wealth inequality that must be addressed, and that there has been massive wealth distribution upwards for decades.

[840high]

38. ...!100++++

[Dustlawyer]

3. The propaganda has convinced them where the fault lies.

We must try to educate people about the manipulation.

[jaysunb]

6. +1 n/t

[Autumn]

4. I don't have what I want because of those republicans.

[merrily]

40. Boomerang! Bullseye! Scrumptious.

[Autumn]

41. What can I say. I noticed the trend

[merrily]

43. And we're always on trend!

Although, even in high school, I could not manage to sprout the latest trend for fall--pimples! http://www.elle.com/fashion/trend-reports/

At the time, I thought myself fortunate, but I guess I would just be considered so 2015 now, aka, reason 42,376 I have no desire to go back to high school.

[demmiblue]

5. I've noticed a trend for years...

[steve2470]

7. ........

[yeoman6987]

8. nonsense.

[RKP5637]

30. K&R !!! n/t

[bunnies]

10. Oh, there's a trend alright.

This OP exemplifies it quite well.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

11. Hey buddy, you're going the wrong way...

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. I don't trend with you.

[cali]

13. Not from what you've posted

[RB TexLa]

14. I blame myself for anything that happens to me

[cali]

16. OK. That strikes me as rather odd, but fine.

[ljm2002]

23. Really?

So if you're driving along, obeying the traffic signals, and some drunk driver runs a red light and t-bones your car and you get a broken neck and spend months in the hospital and go bankrupt dealing with it, then you would blame yourself? Because that was a thing that happened to you? What if it happened to your spouse? Would you tell them what happened was their own personal responsibility?

Personally, I'd blame the drunk driver.

Although I can understand your making this statement, since it supports your ideology, which seems to be quite important to you. There is a word for that kind of thinking... let me think... oh yeah: Ideologue.

[Rex]

24. Games.

This is all just a game for some.

[swhisper1]

17. yup, americans are apathetic and sat on their hands for decades.

only the struggling are waking up to that today. If you dont fight a bully, you end up being one and you rally for the next bully

[onecaliberal]

18. We don't have what we want because we keep voting for the same ones who screw us over.

[840high]

39. .that^

[ljm2002]

19. Amazing, isn't it...

...how many millions of people have become personally irresponsible over the last 30 years.

It's like there has been a huge upsurge of folks who just won't work.

It can't be that there are fewer jobs available in the first place.

It can't be that there has been a huge Swoosh! of money to the upper echelons, money that was taken out of the hides of the middle class.

It can't be that people work harder for less return than was the case 30 years ago.

It can't be that young people go into crushing debt just to get a college education, thus having to forego buying that first house until... well, maybe never.

Nope. Can't be any of those things. It's just a sudden rash of millions upon millions of people who are not personally responsible. Yep, that's the ticket.

[HughBeaumont]

20. You mean the trend of bootstrappers coming out of the DU woodwork?

[MohRokTah]

22. Somebody has to take on the Luddites. eom

[HughBeaumont]

27. It's "Luddite" to want a sustainable future?

It's "Luddite" to question the end game of pure Capitalism?

It's "Luddite" to wonder how a debt-strapped millennial becomes a producing member of a consumer-based economy with a sorry underpaying job market and a mortgage-level student loan anvil tied to their backs before they even start?

Geeeeeeeeeez, we're in deep shit if that's the case . . . . might as well just sell out to the neo-Fascists and be done with it.

[MohRokTah]

28. That's the argument the buggy whip makers used when cars were manufactured en masse. eom

[HughBeaumont]

37. Labor gravitated to automotive plants.

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Just like labor gravitated to industries. And threshers. And assembly lines. And radiology labs. And research and development. And colleges. And post graduate degrees.

Labor doesn't gravitate when it's been replaced and/or cancelled out of the economic picture for costing too much or not being an event-driven algorithm.

Blue, white, doesn't matter what collar. If the ones that run us could offshore or automate every position except their own, they would.

Libertarian/Republican economics are a time-tested fail no matter what party champions them.

[MohRokTah]

21. And this is definitely one of those cases where "both sides do it"...

is NOT a "false equivalency"..

[Scootaloo]

25. Horatio Alger, is that you?

[Iggo]

26. Okay, that's enough.

[Rex]

29. .

[think]

33. Very polite of you considering the unfounded & scurrilous accusations being hurled out...

[Iggo]

35. Mean. Polite. Don't matter. He's long gone.

[RKP5637]

31. I agree to not agree! n/t

[yallerdawg]

32. Simply...

[doc03]

34. Maybe they don't have what they want because they voted for the Republicans

that passed "Right To Work" laws for one thing.

[DonCoquixote]

36. nice to lump the left and right together

perhaps your balme should be afiixed to those that treat the left and right with equal scorn

[fleabiscuit]

42. In 1969

[lapislzi]

44. And...its corollary

I got mine, you're on your own.

I'm OK, the hell with you.

________ (fill in the blank) benefits me, so your concerns are unimportant.

Or...worst of all, maybe, "I got nothing, so you shouldn't have anything either."