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20 Bizarre Quirks of American Politics
Townhall.com ^ | April 2, 2013 | John Hawkins

Posted on 04/02/2013 11:49:36 AM PDT by Kaslin

1) The worst places in America for minorities to live are run lock, stock and barrel by the Democrat Party and yet the residents of those areas overwhelmingly blame Republicans for their plight.

2) We give out condoms in high schools, our entertainment on TV is DRENCHED in sex while porn and strip clubs are ever present throughout most of the country. Meanwhile, virgins and chaste women are thought of as quaint relics of a bygone era who haven't caught up with the times. Then, we're shocked that more than a third of the population has a venereal infection and 48 percent of all first births are happening outside of marriage .

3) The first reaction to people breaking the law with guns is always a demand that we find a way to take weapons away from law abiding citizens.

4) Politicians vote for bills that run thousands of pages that they haven't read and haven't debated and this is not thought of as particularly unusual.

5) In a nation where 47% of Americans pay no income tax at all, we commonly hear claims that the wealthiest Americans aren't paying their "fair share" even though 86% of all income taxes are paid by the top 25% of income earners.

6) Many well known "victims" in American politics are showered with attention, fame and sometimes even financial rewards to such an extent that being thought of as a "victim" may be the greatest moment of someone's life.

7) Despite the fact that there were rapes, murders and more than 7,000 arrests associated with the Occupy Movement, it's the Tea Party that has been smeared as a potentially dangerous and violent group.

8) Actors, movie stars and singers whose livelihood is dependent on being well liked by the public often freely insult the Republican half of the country without paying any sort of significant price for it.

9) Al Gore is accepted as the world's most prominent advocate of living a humble, non-ostentatious lifestyle to prevent global warming; yet he lives in a 30 thousand square foot home and flies around the country in a private jet.

10) When politicians talk about "cutting spending" in D.C., inevitably what they mean is cutting the rate of spending growth.

11) Currently, the Republican Party is bending over backwards to try to find a way to make 11 million illegal aliens into citizens even though the legal penalty for that crime is deportation and every scrap of evidence from the last thirty years seems to indicate those voters will break AT LEAST 2-to-1 for the Democrats.

12) Whether a statement is called "racist" or not has more to do with the political party of the person involved than the actual comment. A "racist remark" that could destroy the career of a Republican might not even make the newspaper if it is said by a Democrat.

13) There are numerous members of the Republican Party, which gets roughly 50% of the vote nationally, that want to dump social issues so we can be more like the Libertarian Party, which gets about 1% of the vote nationally.

14) Insisting that the government live within its means is considered to be a radicalism, while suggesting that it spend trillions of dollars that we don't have and will probably never be able to pay back is considered largely non-controversial in D.C.

15) Ultimately, elections in America tend to be decided by the "most indecisive, least informed, least deserving voters" who make decisions at the last minute.

16) Polls consistently show that the American public is strongly in favor of cutting government spending and yet, when you get into specifics, Americans oppose cuts to spending on just about any and every program imaginable.

17) Having few accomplishments of note and a sparse voting record on bills is considered a HUGE ADVANTAGE in running for the presidency of the United States.

18) Each election, roughly 90% of black Americans vote for the political party behind slavery, segregation and Jim Crow laws.

19) Between 80% and 90% of the supposedly "unbiased" mainstream media votes for Democrats over Republicans every election.

20) In a nation that's 70% Christian and 2% Muslim, Christianity is regularly mocked in the foulest of terms by Hollywood and the mainstream media while Islam is treated with great respect.


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1 posted on 04/02/2013 11:49:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Add to that list of ironies the irony that Jews are also about 2% of the US population and compose most of the people in Hollywood and the media mocking Christians ... and would be the first to be killed if the Islamists got their way.


2 posted on 04/02/2013 12:02:40 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: Kaslin

We’re living in Opposite World.


3 posted on 04/02/2013 12:06:53 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Kaslin

Bumpity Bump. Good stuff.


4 posted on 04/02/2013 12:09:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Big Giant Head

Bump


5 posted on 04/02/2013 12:14:10 PM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Kaslin
Between 80% and 90% of the supposedly "unbiased" mainstream media votes for Democrats over Republicans every election.

And most of the remaining 10-20% is roughly split between Republicans and whack-job even further left parties like the Socialist Workers or Green Party.

6 posted on 04/02/2013 12:17:26 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: NVDave

In fairness, the Hollywood types who are of a Jewish background should not be confused with the actual God-fearing Jews who have all been decent people in my experience.


7 posted on 04/02/2013 12:20:58 PM PDT by MeganC (The left have so twisted public perceptions that the truth now appears pornographic.- SpaceBar)
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To: Windflier

Yeah, it’s pretty obvious, and has a clear biblical explanation.


8 posted on 04/02/2013 12:22:27 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin
13) There are numerous members of the Republican Party, which gets roughly 50% of the vote nationally, that want to dump social issues so we can be more like the Libertarian Party, which gets about 1% of the vote nationally.

The Consitution Party gets even fewer votes than that - so we'd better stay as far away as possible from their platform.

Moron.

9 posted on 04/02/2013 12:32:19 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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10 posted on 04/02/2013 1:02:02 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Kaslin

“15) Ultimately, elections in America tend to be decided by the “most indecisive, least informed, least deserving voters” who make decisions at the last minute.”

OTOH, if you realize that you’re more likely to become “misinformed” than “informed”; by following events and issues in the MSM; you too might be “indecisive”. As Mark Twain said: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”


11 posted on 04/02/2013 1:21:16 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Kaslin
13) There are numerous members of the Republican Party, which gets roughly 50% of the vote nationally, that want to dump social issues so we can be more like the Libertarian Party, which gets about 1% of the vote nationally.

What the Republicans need to do is not dump the social issues, but rather focus on the ways in which the Democrat side actually impairs freedom.

For example, ask the two-part question (1) Should a mother who is considering giving her child up for adoption have the right to refuse any prospective adoptive parents for any reason whatsoever that she sees fit? (2) What if the prospective adoptive parents are a gay couple, and she wants her child raised by a male-female married couple?

I think most people would answer yes to the first question, but "gay marriage" advocates would probably balk at the second. Anything other than a "yes" on the second question, however, would be an answer opposed to freedom.

12 posted on 04/02/2013 4:47:12 PM PDT by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: Kaslin

#21. It hasn’t rained on general election day anywhere in the country, it seems, for as long as I can remember. At least not in the election-deciding blue cities.


13 posted on 04/02/2013 5:19:10 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: MeganC

I’m no longer interested in being “fair.”

The only think keeping the Muslim hordes from slaughtering Jews are American Protestants, and Jews (in the aggregate) have insulted and belittled protestant white males in the US enough that I no longer care to make and distinction between Jews of Brand A or Jews of Brand B.

As far as I’m concerned, the Jews are now on their own. When the Muzzies come for them, they’re on their own. Since they’re so vociferous in their adherence to the idea of gun control, I say let the Jews face the Muzzies while armed with nothing more than their snarky comments and racist humor.


14 posted on 04/02/2013 7:01:32 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: Responsibility2nd; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; stephenjohnbanker; cripplecreek

Horrible stuff, because it’s all true.

#1 really sticks in my craw, especially since those idiot urban voters flee to the burbs and yet keep voting democrat.


15 posted on 04/02/2013 9:15:40 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: NVDave; Yehuda; Jewbacca; jjotto; Zionist Conspirator
in all fairness NVdave, the "jews in Holywood" are about as much jewish in religious terms as Obama is Christian

They are ethnically somewhat or fully jewish and I wouldn't consider them as jews rather as liberals of a semitic background.

And, like other liberals, they are idiots and that has no relevance to their background or ethnicity.

16 posted on 04/03/2013 3:46:04 AM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: NVDave
The only think keeping the Muslim hordes from slaughtering Jews are American Protestants

i'm sorry, but that is not completely true.

If by "Jews" you mean Israelis, then that is not completely true -- case in point, the 6 day war was Israel pretty much on its own

If you mean Jewish people in the rest of the world outside Israel and the USA, then no, the US does not "keep Moslem hordes from slaughtering Jews" there

if you mean within the US, then that is just the rights of every citizen

17 posted on 04/03/2013 3:56:51 AM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: Kaslin

Great except for the needless exaggeration in number 20. Muslims are nowhere near 2% of the population (7,000,000 ?), are are instead more like 0.4% (1,200,000), so that the disparity in treatment is actually even more striking.


18 posted on 04/03/2013 4:22:59 AM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Cronos

FR’s Jew-haters “no longer care to make and distinction between Jews of Brand A or Jews of Brand B”.


19 posted on 04/03/2013 5:18:13 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: NVDave
The only think keeping the Muslim hordes from slaughtering Jews are American Protestants, and Jews (in the aggregate) have insulted and belittled protestant white males in the US enough that I no longer care to make and distinction between Jews of Brand A or Jews of Brand B.

Then you must live with the consequences of that decision when you face HaShem in judgment.

You think "Jews" are against Protestantism and not against Catholicism? You think Catholics never make snarky comments about Protestants? Then you haven't been here very long.

Don't complain when Jews refuse to make a distinction between chrstians of Brand A and chrstians of Brand B.

20 posted on 04/03/2013 8:10:00 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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