I've worked harder, studied harder and put my ass on the line more than the average bloke.
I doubt the first part of that.
The infantry (I left private uni to volunteer during war, airborne) was not full of genius
I had a feeling you would play this card.
and I live in a poor neighborhood at school.
It couldn't have been that poor. That, or you're ashamed of your past. Based on other comments you've made in the past, its safe to assume so, because you seem to want everyone else to have just as hard a time as you, or you're trying to close to door behind you.
I've had friends die and been divorced twice.
That's not really what I'm talking about. John McCain has been divorced, too.
I've lived in Africa without electricity and running water. If you take me for a fool in a blindfold with a silver spoon still in my mouth, perhaps you are not the intellectual I once thought.
Yes I know you've lived in Africa; Kenya, right? And you still have no empathy for the cause of the poor? You must be sociopathic.
I don't need a lecture on how the poor suffer from a fellow bougie college student in a new fur hat from vacation to red square.
Fortunately you're getting one from a working class student with a faux fur hat that cost $10 who got in on the only vacation away from the East Coast he'll probably ever get to do, saved up for years for, and was essentially bankrupt by.
I make $10 an hour and I work in a kitchen in central Baltimore with some of the poorest mothereffers you've ever seen. Most of the cooks are ex-cons for everything from highway robbery to dope dealing, and aside from the college students working their way through school, none save for the manager have been to college. Most haven't completed school. I helped one of them, a 35 year old man who still lives, along with his older brother, with his mother in the same run-down rowhouse with sketchy heat and no air conditioning and doors permanently ajar, open a bank account for the first time, because he's just now gotten enough money to need to store it somewhere. His brother, a 39 year old man, cried when he had to go collect unemployment after getting fired from his job in the kitchen. he felt horrible and embarrassed that he had to life off the money of someone else. Those guys are the people I'm talking about, the people getting the crap end of the stick of life by no fault of their own. Those are the people you're hurting when you support Capitalism, those are the people who make this country go. They are myriad.
Compared to them, yes, I've lived a rather well-off live, but my origins are by no means more than lower-middle class; we only got a few presents each year, we lived in a house that was falling apart, and after saving since before I was born for my college, my parents only had enough for two years of an in-state school. I'm well aware of the privileged life I've had, and I want everyone to be able to have it as least as well as I have, if not better. I'm not claiming I've had the hardest of lives, but at least I'm honestly aware that people have it much worse than I, and at least I desire to help them, to fight for them, to fight alongside them, which is far more than you and your superiority complex can say. If you really came from the "rough" origins you boast, you've done a good job of burning the bridge behind you.
Oh, and the Dead Kennedys suck.
HAHAHA this is funny on so many levels coming from you. Didn'y you just take a vacation to Russia a couple months ago? Then start a thread about how you can't pay your heating bill? Get a grip, buddy, lol
What are your panties in a bunch about now?
You have nothing to contribute to this thread.
I don't think that the Democrats fit Cheezy's conception of leftist.
Indeed. I regard the Democrats and Republicans as two branches of the same party.
