Hillary Is Not Your Mommy

~ Clarissa

What just might keep me from voting for Clinton is this: Her most recent and most prominent public position was secretary of state. And her biggest accomplishment in that office was helping to persuade President Obama to intervene militarily in Libya to oust Moammar Gadhafi. It was easily the dumbest foreign policy decision of Obama’s presidency, plunging yet another Middle Eastern nation into anarchy. As one would expect, life in Libya today is markedly worse than it was under Gadhafi’s tyranny: Food and electricity are scarce, the economy is at a standstill, crime and violence are rampant, and the nation has become a major migration route for refugees from North Africa to Europe.

People just slaughter me with their idiocy sometimes. First they whelp, “Arab spring! Yip-dee-do!” like stuck chickens and run around, telling everybody that finally the time has come when “everything will be good and nothing will be bad.” Then, the moment reality shows that their childish fantasies are stupid and unreasonable, they find a Parent Figure who can be blamed for the collapse of their Peter Pan-inspired hopes and begin to throw tantrums in that figure’s direction. 

Of course, these passionate revolutionaries want change, they want to inhabit a different world, but they want that world to be created by somebody else and in a way that doesn’t disturb their favorite pastime of sitting in comfortable armchairs, stuffing their faces with food and moaning about how others are not doing a good enough job of making their fantasies come true.

Everybody is making fun of the bratty Yale students but the author of the linked piece is no different. He is looking to be adopted by somebody big and powerful and freaks out when reality fails to provide him with this cosmic Mommy he seeks.

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6 thoughts on “Hillary Is Not Your Mommy”

  1. “He is looking to be adopted by somebody big and powerful and freaks out when reality fails to provide him with this cosmic Mommy he seeks.”

    Fortunately there’s a new service in New York City where you can rent a mom.

    “Do you not have a mum? Or have a mum but she’s far away? Or have a mum but you don’t like her? Do you have $40 to spare? Then you can now rent yourself a mum.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/09/mom-for-rent-new-york-advice

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  3. Great points: It doesn’t say you have to be a dude. The video promoting the site is aimed at moms and every single kid in the video is male. Also the web form is set up for moms to sign up to cook food for other people’s kids. There’s nothing stopping a guy from signing up to cook. 🙂

    I wonder how popular this would be in other countries, with some tweaking. 🙂

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