{"id":45522,"date":"2017-02-02T05:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=45522"},"modified":"2017-02-09T05:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T10:46:50","slug":"big-daddy-cant-save-us-we-are-not-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/big-daddy-cant-save-us-we-are-not-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Daddy can&#8217;t save us &#8212; we are not victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chuck-lorre-vanity-card-541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45523\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chuck-lorre-vanity-card-541-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chuck-lorre-vanity-card-541-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chuck-lorre-vanity-card-541.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love the Chuck Lorre Productions vanity cards after the end of each of their shows. Here&#8217;s #541 &#8220;Don&#8217;t be fooled. Big Daddy can&#8217;t save us. Our salvation lies within ourselves. Within our own ingenuity and determined effort. &#8216;Make America great again&#8217; is a bumper sticker for victimhood. But we are not victims. We are the creators of opportunity. Sure the system&#8217;s rigged. It always has been. So what?! We are a nation of immigrants who have consistently ignored the rigging. You won&#8217;t let us join your club? %#&amp;@ you, we&#8217;ll start our own club. You won&#8217;t let us go to your school? %#&amp;@ you, we&#8217;ll start our own school. You won&#8217;t let us earn money your way? %#&amp;@ you, we&#8217;ll earn it our way. You won&#8217;t give us a chance here? %#&amp;@ you, we will go elsewhere. You want to know what makes America great? I got two words for you.&#8221; Chuck Lorre Productions<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/big-daddy-cant-save-us-we-are-not-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Big Daddy can&#8217;t save us &#8212; we are not victims&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/big-daddy-cant-save-us-we-are-not-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/big-daddy-cant-save-us-we-are-not-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/big-daddy-cant-save-us-we-are-not-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Big%20Daddy%20can&#8217;t%20save%20us%20&#8212;%20we%20are%20not%20victims&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/big-daddy-cant-save-us-we-are-not-victims\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the Chuck Lorre Productions vanity cards after the end of each of their shows. Here&#8217;s #541 &#8220;Don&#8217;t be fooled. Big Daddy can&#8217;t save us. Our salvation lies within ourselves. Within our own ingenuity and determined effort. &#8216;Make America great again&#8217; is a bumper sticker for victimhood. But we are not victims. We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45524,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45522\/revisions\/45524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}