“I don’t understand why one is called a “purist”, a “troll”, a “fascist”, a “liberal Democrat” and a lot of other, non-flattering names just because they.....”
Because it is as nice way of saying, “tyrant” (or tyrant enabler) or “evil doer” or “lover of evil.”
Sometimes a ‘breakfast beer’ will settle one.
Try it.
As an aside, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
But, I’m certain it is important.
WHAT AMERICANS USED TO KNOW ABT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE--- The first several generations of Americans understood that the Declaration of Independence was the ultimate states’ rights document.
The citizens of the states would delegate certain powers to a central government in their Constitution, and these powers (mostly for national defense and foreign policy purposes) would hopefully be exercised for the benefit of the citizens of the "free and independent" states, as they are called in the Declaration.
The understanding was that if American citizens were in fact to be the masters rather than the servants of government, they themselves would have to police the national government that was created by them for their mutual benefit. If the day ever came that the national government became the sole arbiter of the limits of its own powers, then Americans would live under a tyranny as bad or worse than the one the colonists fought a revolution against.
As the above quotation denotes, the ultimate natural law principle behind this thinking was Jefferson’s famous dictum in the Declaration of Independence that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that whenever that consent is withdrawn the people of the free and independent states, as sovereigns, have a duty to abolish that government and replace it with a new one if they wish.
This was the fundamental understanding of the meaning of the Declaration of Independence – that it was a Declaration of Secession from the British empire – of the first several generations of Americans.
As the 1, 107-page book, Northern Editorials on Secession shows, this view was held just as widely in the Northern states as in the Southern states in 1860-1861. Among the lone dissenters was Abe Lincoln, a corporate lawyer/lobbyist/politician with less than a year of formal education who probably never even read The Federalist Papers.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE PREAMBLE “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...”
What came after the Declaration of Independence was the "bill of particulars" against the colonial ruler--King George III ---that justified the declaration and subsequent colonial rebellion.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,” reads one of Jefferson’s indictments against the king.
You’re supposed to worship a letter. It, being “R”.
All hail the letter, for it is God on earth.
Party politics are controlled by activists. Political party participation is open to anyone at the precinct, convention, state and national level. Far more big city liberals take advantage of this participation than do middle-American conservatives. To win the ideological fight, conservatives must get inside the party structure through a door mostly open and defeat liberalism. Bet you don’t know who your local Republican (or Democrat) chairperson is.
The thing you probably need to do, newbie, is just keep reading FR and you will soon get into the groove of it.
Welcome aboard!
“Somebody please tell me why we have to kowtow down and give our “blessings” and our votes to people who have molested us for years and we’re not allowed to rise up and fight back when we could rid our Party, our nation and our very lives of a couple of them and still win control of the Senate.”
Yelling this one right along with you. Hear hear.
If name calling bothers you, don’t play in the street.
Learn to fight more effectively.
Challenge them to stay on point:
“So, you can’t explain your anti-Conservative behavior, given that you’re resorting to name calling?”
Free Republic has gotten very rude lately- People USED TO make their points in an intelligent and thoughtful argument, whether you agreed or disagreed.
Now, if you disagree with someone, all the negativity and name-calling starts immediately.
This is why the Freepathons are taking longer and longer all the time, I think...
Mississippi ping. I have no answer
There are quite a few things that you do not understand. Perhaps in the fullness of time, but not yet.
Your betters won’t like this.
Are you crying?
Be still, my heart!
Why? Because the Republican Party does not embrace and support Conservative principles. If you doubt this, you need to forget what used to be and what should be, and pay attention to how things really are.
Anytime you challenge those in power, you’d better be prepared to take the heat.
I also get called lots of names by NeoCons since I dislike using our military unless it is clearly in our national interests and the mission is well defined and (overwhelmingly) approved by Congress.
Lastly the GOPe types call me names because I require more then just an R to support a candidate for elected office. And I flat our refuse to vote for a Statist/Globalist of any party. In their mind that makes me responsible for their inability to elect R Statists and the Rats ability to elect D Statists. In my mind a Statist is a Statist regardless of party affiliation.
If you're not getting called names then you're doing something wrong :)
One fellow just got done cheerleading for liberal Republicans, outright, by that very label.
Just so you understand conservative republicans are in the minority at the voting booth in many states. The average R=eEpublican voter is a centrist/moderate middle of the roader. That is why what we call RINO’s get elected and stay in office. We have to make truly conservative gains where we can. Its a slow process.
If you aren’t a member of the Uniparty, you are a non-person.