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Reminds me of a conversation I had with a social scientist prior to the
election. Topic = Palin and the responses she elicited.
This woman got frothingly angry when I said that I thought Palin's
supporters saw in her a kind of self-sufficiency combined with small
community inter-reliance that resonated with them. Several men were
nodding as I mentioned her hunting and fishing and the fact that Todd
Palin designed and helped to build their home.
Spittle flying through clenched teeth, she informed me that she had
raised her (upper middle class, suburban, never saw a gun in real life
or a garden or ....) kids to be QUITE self-sufficient and that she was
certain they could learn to "I don't know, kill a racoon or something"
if they needed to.
Uh huh, I thought to myself. Sure lady. Sure they could. [lotp]
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What is that place, and who are those people? mary
ReplyDeleteAnd we can skin a buck; we can run a trot-line
ReplyDeleteAnd a country boy can survive.
The Fliteline Loungers at the "O-Club" are, as near as I can tell, an eclectic bunch of mostly ex-military people, who seem to have a better than average grasp of all things, and a delightful, intelligent way of stating their opinions. It's my favorite stopover.
ReplyDeleteI thought that was how you thought of us Rodger.
ReplyDeleteTim
I'd mumble the word "horsesqueeze" after I stopped laughing.
ReplyDeleteCould these people do any of the things necessary to survive, if required: Raise a garden? Operate a firearm? Hunt? Fish? Trap? Wire a circuit? Install plumbing? Render first aid? Build a structure? Repair a gasoline engine? Dig a well? Care for livestock?
No F'N way. They spend their lives rubbing elbows with others of their caste in air-conditioned offices and import cars and are lost outside that environment. IOW, they're essentially useless if the SHTF. To most liberals, hardship means having to drink domestic beer in a can (gasp!) instead of a European import in a bottle or having to select a non-organic vegetable (ugh!) off the menu.
I see it each time a Hurricane smashes up our city. The liberals wait around for someone to rescue them while the conservatives get out there and fix things.
They would not be _completely_ useless if TSHTF. Since they mostly don't smoke or partake of anything which would spoil the meat...
ReplyDeletejust sayin'.
Stay safe