You say you want a revolution?
We all want to change the world.
Over at Eternity Road, Mr Porretto discusses (among other things) the origins of the Democrat party, and the whys and wherefores of it, and as a counterpoint (or more accurately, a corollary) Mr Alger discusses how what was once the extreme of the Democrat party is now firmly ensconced in the heart of it’s ideology.
I once spoke of the TV theory of gummint. I believe this is part of human nature: We don’t, as a rule, want to study things that are not specifically our hobbies. We want shit to work, and when it don’t work, we want it fixed. If the tv/car/toilet/blender/whatever doesn’t work, we want it to work again. We don’t want a dissertation on why it don’t work or what caused it to fail or why we can’t have it in a specific time, we want it fixed.
I have seen the left become more and more fringe, more nuts. For every single shouting point (they stopped having talking points a long time ago) one merely has to say “Prove it” and the answer is to move on to yet another shouting point. I have yet to see any concrete evidence of any of the BS that any conservative has been accused of. Period. Even if I were to learn that Scooter libby (how evil: a guy named SCOOTER!!! RUN AND HIDE FOLKS!!!! SCOOTER IS COMING!!) was complicit in something, whcih by the way, he is not, it would STILL pale in comparison to the wholesale attempt by the left to impose marxist socialism on the USA. You can talk, and talk, and talk. You can try to explain. You can whine and piss and moan and do anything you want, but the bottom line, is that having come by their ignorance of the truth the hard way, most liberals are loathe to part with it. How much longer do we have to try to ‘fix” this by normal means? When can I take Ed Asners face and pound it into a TV screen showing videotape of Stalins atrocities and say “SEE, ED? STALIN WASN”T MISUNDERSTOOD! HE WAS A FUCKING MURDEROR!!!!! Why can’t i beat some sense into the Mike Moores of the world? Can anyone tell me in any honesty that the world wouldn’t be a better place without the likes of Dan “I made the whole thing up but it’s true anyway” Rather?
No. It’s broken. I’m sick to death of it being broken. I’m sick to death of the rhetoric. Show me the button to push or the wrench to turn or the code to write to make it go away, and I’ll gladly do it.. but it’s not like that. I wish it were.
Mr Porretto speaks of education. Mr Alger speaks of putting off the inevitable. I’m all for peaceful discussion and reason. Show me ONE liberal politician capable of reason, and i’m there. Else, I’m Lot’s Wife, turned to salt, looking longingly back on my home, destroyed in a fire of it’s own creation.
12 comments Og | Uncategorized
I share your frustration, meningful dialogue is not possible. for instance they lie andsay Bush mislead us into war, yet thereare pages and pages of Democrats making the same statements during the Clinton administration. The media spreads the lies. I fear there is no hope.
Spread the truth, hoosierboy. Until the call comes to take up arms, the truth is our best weapon.
I’ve always liked the idea of a split. Canada is way ahead of the US in euro-progressivism. We can give Canada California and a few New England Staes and New York/New Jersey and they give “us” a few of their vast western providences and we split amicably.
The new USA will live in freedom and the old Canada Federal Union or whatever can do what they want with their subjects, in the name of security and equaliy, of course. Crappy to have another third world country on our border but better than civil war which will most likely lead to much worse in all respects..
A very interesting idea. What would w edo about the east coast?
no button to push og. but maybe a trigger to squeeze?
i’m with you.
It’s kind of wierd how the so-called narrow minded right can have a much bigger tent than the so-called open minded left. That’s the right’s strength – single issue mindedness. We agree on gun rights but disagree on school prayer; well, let’s just work together on gun rights. On the left, if you say you are for a better health care system, then you must also be for freeing Mumia, gay marriage, American disarmament, abortion, Che t-shirts, the whole shebang. Otherwise, you’re a sexistracisthomophobe and can’t come in the treehouse with the rest of the Little Rascals. Instead of picking from the buffet table, you have to eat the stew, with all the crappy parts mixed in it making you lose your taste for the good stuff you heard was in it in the first place.
I used to have a lot of support for things that was under the term liberal. My father made a great living (and had liveable working conditions, though mill work will never be nice work) in the same mill his father made sustenance wages (and was disabled in mill accidents) in. The difference? USW. A person can have the same crack at a job, as long as he is qualified, regardless of his ethnicity – Civil Rights Act.
Any more, a liberal is a person who talks the same talking points as other people who call themselves that name, and a conservative is a person who isn’t a liberal. There’s not so many conservatives because the country’s shifting to the right – there’s so many conservatives because the liberals threw out anyone who thinks. That’s partly how Reagan Democrats began – all the former Democrats that the party trimmed from the herd. Shirts vs. skins – we pull for our team right or wrong.
the truth is og, that the world would be a much better place without pansy ass fucktards like me. So please, let all your friends know that they can come by my place and a**-f**k me as I so richly deserve. I’ve been banned from Neanderpundit so they need to email me at toxicopoulus@hotmail.com
And, in case anyone cares, my IP is 38.98.130.130, belonging to Performance Systems International, in Washington DC.
Come a** ream me, all you greasy fat guys, I love it ever so much. And especially you, Og, because you are such a manly man, i am in unmitigated awe of you.
(totally uninterested, dugout, I don’t want any of that runny clap you got)(edited to remove scurrilous content- Og)
Dagon, be nice. No such language is allowed here.
Og you are too nice to dragon. I can’t tell quite what is being expressed there but waste of pixels unless someting of more substance is included. I mean you could allow lower mortage rates adds too. I know I get a dozen a day.
East coast goes to Canada, definitely down to NJ maybe DC. We get one good ski area close in.
Actually, there are signs that the canadians are turning their boat around somewhat. Maybe we can give the libs the cities and keep the prime hunting/fishing areas.
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