This oughta short circuit the three random firing brain cells they have left.
Posted on 11/06/2004 5:21:42 PM PST by King Prout
Friends, Freepers, Lurkers, Newbies, Trolls, Americans all, attend: For I shall for once be serious.
I have spent much of my free time at other sites, more left-leaning than centrist, but where I have some respect and some decent relations. I have been arguing with them non-stop, and it has been crazy-making.
Here's a (close) parody of how it goes:
Leftist: Dell makes great buses!
Me: Buses? Um, last I checked, Dell doesn't manufacture buses or any other of their subcomponents - they purchase all of that from subcontractors and then assemble a damn good computer...
Leftist: Computers? Man, you are ignorant! Everyone knows Dell makes buses. You know, the things people ride around in? It must hurt to be as dumb as you...
Me: Buses... o-o-o-o-kayyy, look: Dell Inc makes home and business computers. They make no conveyances of any sort.
Leftist: You just can't tolerate a different opinion.
Me: this has nothing to do with tolerance. An opinion contradicted by facts is worthless.
Leftist: You don't have any facts, and CBS says...
Me: Look, pal, try to do a little fact-checking. Here - go to this website, yeah, that's right, DELL INC's official website and get the facts straight from the source...
Leftist: That doesn't prove anything!
Me: It proves Dell makes computers...
Leftist: But they also make buses
Me: Holy cripes. Don't you think they'd have buses listed in their catalog if they made 'em?!? Geesh! How about you contact Dell and ask THEM if they make buses?
Leftist: You are a mean person!
Me: No, I'm just stating facts.
Leftist: Not only are you a mean intolerant person, but I know that XP-windows on Dell buses have superior diopter and clarity, making the scenery o so lovely as you ride along...
Me: oh, dear lord...
I'm not kidding - arguing with Leftists is just like this.
Now that the election is over, and the people have spoken, one might be given to believe that the clarity of the results would compel a new birth of clarity in the thinking of Democrats.
Don’t you believe it.
The Left, both on high and down in the grassroots, is convulsed with brushfires, tummult, strife, backstabbing, second-guessing, and desperate shrieking – but not careful, introspective, fact and reality based thought.
They are even so deluded as to believe they, the minority, can dictate to the victor how to divide the spoils.
Yes, they believe this. It is not simply a political ploy (though perhaps it is, among their powerful).
I now purpose to lecture the Left, illustrate a few simple facts, gloat just a little bit, and in so doing force them to stop and take a good hard look at themselves.
Dear DNC,
We won.
Resoundingly.
We presented our case to the American people and they chose us over you.
You FAILED.
We have retained the Presidency, and we have enlarged our majorities in the House and Senate.
We have booted your obstructionist Minority Leader.
We scored a 3.5million vote majority in the popular vote and of course took the requisite number of Electoral College votes... and then some.
You are in NO POSITION to demand a damned thing from us.
Your campaign, beginning in November of 2000, was the cause of the division in this country.
You have played fast and loose with the facts.
You have done everything in your power to sow discord and paranoia in the electorate.
You have, with your every utterance, paraded your contempt for the common American in full and insulting view of those you thought to woo.
You have indulged in unsavory and illegal campaign tactics.
YOU are the ones who engaged in voter intimidation and mob violence.
YOU are the whores of special interests and egomaniacal billionaires, in turn pimping your "core constituency" however you see fit in your bid to regain power and national relevance.
What offends isn't so much the cynical immorality with which you swagger abroad under your load of hypocrisy, as it is the calculated indecency with which you see fit to project upon us and our actions all your own lawlessness, your rank idiocy, and all the sins of your habitual and base nature, and THEN have the unmitigated GALL to demand of us - once your horrid program has come to naught - to then DEMAND of us that we kowtow to your bruised vanity!
CLEAN OUT YOUR OWN HOUSE before you tell us to muck our stables.
I much prefer our stables to your house: Our stables are not quite so whiff.
I have only one thing to add: The mainstream of this country has been DRIVEN to the right not by fear so much as by aggrieved annoyance and distaste. The Left pushed, promised "only this far and no further", and then pushed for more, for decades. The mainstream began to balk in the early 1990's and the Left failed to get the message. They instead grew even more aggressive.
The mainstream is FED UP. I am not saying they are either entirely right or entirely wrong. I am merely saying they are FED UP.
The Mass. Supreme Court's actions, followed by the lunacy of San Francisco's mayor, were the impetus behind the "gay marriage ban"(sic) state-con amendments, and one of several similarly self-inflicted prime causes of the drubbing the DNC suffered this week. For those Leftists and self-styled “Liberals” unhappily reading this: Yes, kids, I -and many others- warned you there would be significant backlash.
We were correct in this analysis in every respect.
Deal with it.
The Left has two ways of doing so, in my opinion.
1. They can descend ever further into omphaloskeptic narcissism and sociopolitical irrelevancy, or...
2. They can come to terms with the fact that they have gotten all that they are going to get in terms of compromise from the mainstream for at least a generation, and -in coming to terms with this REALITY- cease kicking hornets nests and work to earn a good reputation as a LOYAL opposition.
I hope the latter option is chosen, though I am not particularly hopeful for a quick, clean, viable solution.
Such a solution would presuppose a vital core of the DNC, and I am at a loss to determine what the "core" of the DNC really IS. IS there a core? If there isn’t… how best can one be established from within?
Some thoughts…
Once those on the Left are through with devouring their young, they need to do the following, each and every single one of them, as individuals:
- 1. Read the Constitution, as written, unannotated and without mountains of their favorite distaff case-law.
- 2. Go and get their hands dirty, doing real work, where success and failure are measured in real empirical terms of right and wrong: Does it work or does it not work? Does it fit or does it not fit? Does it live or does it die? If I make a mistake in judgement, how many people get injured and how badly? Do the customers buy it or reject it? Do I have a paycheck or do I not? Etc... that sort of thing. I mean they must undergo a LITERAL submersion in practical reality.
- 3. After two years of surviving by the sweat of their own brows, they should then REREAD the Constitution.
After doing all this, they should sit awhile in thought.
Find their own individual real political centers.
THEN, only then, should they seek others of like mind.
I posit that the results would be startling.
And, ultimately, healthy for whatever succeeds the current DNC, healthy for the GOP, and healthy for the Repubic.
That IS supposed to be what we ALL prize above all other concerns, yes?
I do not believe that a party in unchallengeable power can long remain healthy. The Right has a plethora of its own cancers, and lacking stiff competition for the mainstream it shall surely succumb to them... taking the nation I love along for the ride.
Choose wisely, o battered Left.
I beg you.
Of course, if you on the Left INSIST on behaving like heartbroken teenaged girls, you have an alternative process to pursue. I don’t recommend it, but out of fairness and in a desire for balance I shall provide it for you:
Official DNC-Issued Post-Loss Marching Orders:
1. Post something idiotic on FR
2. Sit down in bath tub
3. Put the muzzle in your mouth
4. Squeeze the trigger
(agh! they went and changed the Subject List!)
Great line! (One 'm' in 'tumult.')
thanks :)
Virginia state spelling champion, 1983.
geesh... to what limbo did I exile this vanity?
lost in cyberspace
Things are slow tonight. Even the Undead Thread has ground to a halt. I think it's post-election collapse. I went to bed at 8:00 last night!
ping!
yeah, but where IS it?
it doesn't show up on any of muh scopes, cap'n!
I imagine that most of the obnoxious Kerry acolytes have quieted down by this point, if for no other reason than simply out of pure embarrassment.
Then again, I could be mistaken.
Hey, it happens sometimes.
nahhhh...
Oh, yeah? Well how do you spell ... uh ...
(never mind)
Anyway, Your Majesty, just as Rush says, once You've said what You have to say, there's nothing left to be said...
... so why would You expect comments?
more seriously, I was hoping for the genesis of a discussion concerning how best we may assist the death of the rot within that party, and see whether a viable definition of what, in our Constitution-ruled Republic, would constitute the "loyal opposition" to what we consider to be ourselves at our ideal.
Thsi would have an additional and salutory effect of helping us know what we are when we are at our best, in that same light, and help us to spot and control our own cancers.
I am not wise enough to tackle all that on my own, nor persusive enough to convince the massed populations of this Republic to heed my thoughts.
Help, if only "feedback" from the thoughtful, pragmatic, and sincere, is ever to be sought. Nu?
I'm confused.
Peons?
Pecans?
Or this ... Paeans?
paean also pean (pê´en) noun
1. Music. A song of joyful praise or exultation.
2. A fervent expression of joy or praise: "The art . . . was a paean to paganism" (Will Durant).
3. An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.
[Latin paeân, hymn of thanksgiving, often addressed to Apollo, from Greek paian, from Paian, a title of Apollo.]
- pae´anis´tic (-îs´tîk) adjective
(You might want to keep that spelling champ close by! --Like Princess Laia...)
Paeans.
just checking to see if you were awake...
*fleeing*
More to the point...
..."...what, in our Constitution-ruled Republic, would constitute the "loyal opposition" to what we consider to be ourselves at our ideal."
The answer to this is the Constitution Party. While it is fledgling still, they are where we should be.
Just as the declining major political party will need no assistance in its death spiral, we are already our own opposition. We have been compromising our own principles, simply for the sake of survival, to such an extent that we don't even recognize what our principles are anymore.
We need to get back to basics.
While I would not recommend convoking a constitutional convention, I do think it would be appropriate to try to make sure that the next time our party's platform is written, that it include some well-developed core ideas that will stand the test of time, as well as scrutiny from the Constitutional Party.
"...checking to see if you were awake... "
Not for much longer, I fear. Shortly I shall be making my daily concession to the apparent fact that I am Human in fact, if not in temperament.
In other words, sleeping.
This oughta short circuit the three random firing brain cells they have left.
thank the lord that took a while to load - gave me time to swallow the coffee before I laughed.
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