Dave Zweifel
He thinks he is smarter than the rest of us and knows what is best for your family. I say he should mind his own damn business.
Posted on 10/11/2006 3:57:39 PM PDT by SJackson
This is true. And the business/open borders R's hate it and are doing the best to drive values voters out of the coalition.
Dave Zweifel
He thinks he is smarter than the rest of us and knows what is best for your family. I say he should mind his own damn business.
Wild and irrational conflations.
Thomas Frank
Frank argues that the problem is the "systematic erasure of the economic" from discussions of class and its replacement with a notion of "authenticity," whereby "there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer." The leaders of this backlash, by focussing on cultural issues in which victory is probably impossible (abortion, "filth" on TV), feed their base's sense of grievance, abetted, Frank believes, by a "criminally stupid" Democratic strategy of triangulation. Liberals do not need to know more about nascar; they need to talk more about money and class.
Frank says, working class will continue voting against their own self interests
Show me an article that references "working people" or "working families" and I'll show you a Democratic operative at work.
This is an irrelevant book which makes people stupid for reading it.
He is the same type of mental midget who only hears "tax cuts for the rich" when President Bush said "EVERYONE gets a tax cut."
It's impossible to be conservative on moral issues and liberal on economic issues if you expect to have a stable social order in place. What you failed to mention about "old style New Deal Democrats" is that they established and perpetuated a system that is based on unsound economic policy (which has nothing to do with "liberal" vs. "conservative") and is ultimately doomed to collapse.
Majority of the country does not agree with you.
What you failed to mention about "old style New Deal Democrats" is that they established and perpetuated a system that is based on unsound economic policy (which has nothing to do with "liberal" vs. "conservative") and is ultimately doomed to collapse.
Somehow America did not collapse yet. Do you really think that abolishment of Social Security. Medicare, Medicaid and public schools will make America stronger?
So what? That has nothing to do with whether it's right or not. I'm sure most people in this country would love to pay no taxes at all, yet have Federal government that spends 2+ trillion every year on them. That was my point . . . it's a delusional mindset that is completely disconnected from reality.
Somehow America did not collapse yet.
No, it hasn't. But in order to perpetuate this system, the U.S. has been forced to implement policies that you (and most of us here) find completely unacceptable and irresponsible (open borders, "free trade," massive budget deficits, massive long-term public indebtedness, etc.).
Do you really think that abolishment of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and public schools will make America stronger?
Yes. Next question?
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