[quote=FlyerInHi]There are plenty of good cars that are commensurate with your budget. You have to be stubborn and/or emotional to buy a bad car. It’s like insisting on a performance or status car when your budget is family sedan or economy.[/quote]
Now that is quite the inverted redneck statement. None of my cars that I regretted purchasing were performance or status cars above my means. That post is akin to saying gays get aids because they are making bad choices. But you wouldn’t say that because it’s ignorant and biased. But you’ll say something equally ignorant about a demographic you’ve judged to not fit your paradigm. That’s the same as an ass backwards redneck, just inverted.
That crappy car was a new, late 80’s, no options Honda civic. Back when they were the cheap and reliable car standard. I’ve purchased about 5 Hondas in my lifetime, all wonderful cars except that one. Ive owned BMW, Mercedes, Cadillac, Infiniti and other “status cars” and they all penciled out better. That’s life, that’s playing the odds and still losing. That’s splitting aces against a 6 and losing both hands. Smokers sometimes live to be 100, and non smoker vegans get lung cancer at 45. Sure the odds are in the other direction, but anomalies occur. But when you hear of that vegan getting cancer you don’t say “that’s what you get when you aren’t as smart as me, you should eat some salmon like I do for the antioxidants.”
I figured out why Trump is so popular, why the pendulum has swung against PC. It’s precisely because of comments like this. You buy a car that turns out to be a lemon and suddenly it’s because you are bad, selfish, unrealistic, status driven, etc. etc. It suddenly makes it feel good to vote for the guy that makes Flyer and his ilk pee their pants. See, this is why I hate politics, in a non election year I’d just ignore this and go have a glass of wine. I was a little on the fence because zk made me think about a few things, I’m off that fence now and I hate why. zk, you know who to blame when President Trump pisses you off. Not me, I was forced into it.
