Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps Mentality

The most offensive thing you can say to the mentally ill is that they can t pull themselves up by the bootstraps the diagnosis of mental illness is the most dangerous time for many of us.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality. And when they do inevitably try to take away welfare and other social safety nets probably sometime in the next year according to speaker of the house paul ryan they will. The mythical bootstraps the ones kids are supposed to pull themselves up by to overcome poverty don t exist. The brain rewires itself based on experience all the time. In fact the original meaning of the phrase was more along the lines of to try to do something completely absurd etymologist barry popik and linguist and lexicographer ben zimmer have cited an american newspaper snippet from sept.

Republicans jammed through their tax cut late last year which means it s only a matter of time before they try to cut entitlements to make up the difference the tax plan is expected to increase the federal deficit by a whopping 1 5 trillion. Americans are poor neither because of a lack of hard work nor because. 30 1834 as the earliest published reference to lifting oneself up by one s bootstraps. To pull yourself up by your bootstraps is actually physically impossible.

For those of you who have endured the worst you will have your time of recovery and learning and you will also have your time to shine. The truth is trying to build your life based on other people s standards is bullshit and so is the pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. In this dangerous political moment it s time to call the pull yourself up by your bootstraps narrative what it is.