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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "a425couple"  wrote in message news:FXNtP.925811$if26.232052@fx13.iad...   
      
   I am a life-long and very active Republican. But, I've been praying that   
   the Democrat party can get its act together. Let the current party die   
   in a heap of ashes -- and start a new party of centrists who LOVE   
   AMERICA and who want to keep this country great. We need TWO strong   
   parties in this country. Right now we have only one   
      
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   I suspect a significant part of the problem is the notion that becoming a   
   self-supporting and productive adult has become passe', you can morally   
   remain dependent your whole life and your support will shift from parents to   
   the government, or reliance on entertainment which includes the media if you   
   can't make it as an actor.   
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/face_for_radio   
      
   I encountered that attitude in the 60's from many students and a few chem   
   professors who considered industrial work immoral. The bold and strong   
   heroes of the 1950's faded from TV and film to be replaced by hapless   
   schmucks who believed they were victims of a "society" they were unable or   
   unwilling to learn to join, notably in Woody Allen films. Authority figures   
   were glorified only if they were misfits like Dirty Harry, no more Sheriff   
   Matt Dillon. Kubrick presented heroic David Bowman in the 60's, dissolute   
   Barry Lyndon in the 70's and crazed Jack Torrance in 1980. Music went from   
   "Davy Crocket, king of the wild frontier." to "And your gravity fails,   
   negativity don't pull you through."   
      
   I don't know a cure. I associated with scientists, engineers, technicians   
   and machinists at school and work, sometimes also writers, artists and   
   actors socially, and there was little connection between their worlds.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)