dagblog - Comments for "The infantile adults. America&#039;s immature elites." http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/infantile-adults-americas-immature-elites-14119 Comments for "The infantile adults. America's immature elites." en This link that was passed to http://dagblog.com/comment/158369#comment-158369 <a id="comment-158369"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/infantile-adults-americas-immature-elites-14119">The infantile adults. America&#039;s immature elites.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This link that was passed to me on another blog really does sum it up to a tee.</p> <p><a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/awop/2012/05/17/how_the_ayn_rand-loving_right_is_like_a_bunch_of_teenage_boys_gone_crazy" rel="nofollow">How the Ayn Rand-loving right is like a bunch of teenage boys gone crazy.</a></p> <blockquote> <p>All this Ayn Rand libertarian me-first-and-the-rest-of-you-go-to-hell stuff — the there’s-no-government-like-no-government theology that’s now being piously intoned as Holy Received Truth by everybody, male and female, in the GOP — is, very precisely, the kind of politics you’d come up with if you were a 16-year-old boy trying to explain away his dependence on Mom.</p> <p>. . . .</p> <p>A 50-year-old CEO who’s still whining because Big Bad Government is asking him to clean up his shit, look after his little brother and not act like a psychopath in public is flat-out suffering from arrested emotional and social development. He’s not a grown man, despite his thousands of employees and millions in salary. He’s still that teenager, hating on Mom because she dared to remind him that he’s still deeply dependent on the resources of provided by his larger family.</p> </blockquote> <p>And then they come crying back home after they roll the convertible.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:34:57 +0000 cmaukonen comment 158369 at http://dagblog.com Inbreds? http://dagblog.com/comment/158270#comment-158270 <a id="comment-158270"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/158268#comment-158268">The whole point of this is</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Inbreds?</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:53:07 +0000 Resistance comment 158270 at http://dagblog.com The whole point of this is http://dagblog.com/comment/158268#comment-158268 <a id="comment-158268"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/infantile-adults-americas-immature-elites-14119">The infantile adults. America&#039;s immature elites.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The whole point of this is that one should not be surprised by the behaviors of those in Washington and on Wall Street give their likely family backgrounds.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:51:36 +0000 cmaukonen comment 158268 at http://dagblog.com