Judith A Schuett

2015-05-17 07:37:42 -0400

@ Bravo, Peter and Glenn Craig…See I knew one of you could find some rights :) and you make some very good points that are true…so what’s next?



I detect a deep undercurrent of bitterness…somewhat like I have been told over and over again is the bane of feminists…bitterness at what could be, but isn’t.



Perhaps if we all (male and female) could see that we have plenty of rights and stopped thinking in terms of what avenues are closed to us we might be able to go forward (not by government intervention, either, which is artificial)…after all those around us have to deal with these difficulties all the time…we could learn from the successful ones…like Republican,Ben Carson…whose mother did not excuse their terrible circumstances or permit him to lose hope when everything in his life was against a successful future.



I think that what you perceive as loss of rights is actually a loss of entitlement and privilege…you still have plenty of rights if you are willing to drive forward…yes you have less privilege than your ancestors and you are no longer entitled to any future you choose in this country ( but this just puts you on a level field with all the others, now)…but are you going to let that keep you down or defeat your children? Privilege and entitlement are dangerous bedfellows and make a man either poison, corrupt or weak. Like their opposites, powerlessness and lack of privilege they are not a bed to sleep in but a catalyst to effort….as the saying goes “when the going gets tough, the tough get going”….so what are you all going to do about your ‘loss of rights’? After all, one of the reasons we are in this mess is that we CHOSE to have smaller families to enable us to become more wealthy…then we had to bring in other cultures to make up the loss…we brought some of this on ourselves…so we have to get over it and get on with it…and git ’er done…and put all our energy into turning things around…

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