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The most ardent partisans cannot accept that their passionate strivings are being used against them. They will smugly sit and giggle about tin-foil hats like so many schoolchildren. I don't think we can stop what has been set in motion, but exploring the idea that our two party system is a sham may lead a few people to take a real stand against both.

As Barry Fitzgerald says in The Quiet Man:

"Well, it's a fine soft night, so I think I'll go and join me comrades and talk a little treason."

1 posted on 11/12/2012 1:27:38 PM PST by Dr. Thorne
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It is the natural thing for democracies to do, and the reason the founders set up a republic and not a democracy.


25 posted on 11/12/2012 1:50:33 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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1)The education system, either by design, inertia, or union incompetence, is failing (I am the product of a not-affluent public school system and a pedestrian public college, and I am shocked to continually find I am WAAAAAAY better educated than the typical 30-and-under who is wandering about out there)

2)Various capitalists, particularly in the banking sector, don’t seem to appreciate the support that capitalism has had in this country. Hence they push the edge of the envelope into areas that much of the public finds repulsive.
Sooner or later calls from the Elizabeth Warren-types to take them to the woodshed find an audience.

3)Leftists have undertaken a very calculated, patient long-term strategy to embed themselves in academia, media and law, and this 100-year effort is now paying dividends.

4)Younger people who did not grow up with the bogeyman of oppressive Communism on the other side of the pond do not understand why it is bad, and seem stunningly open to the idea of a big nanny government and a planned economy.

5)Appeals to race hatred and class jealousy sadly do work, and have always worked throughout human history.


26 posted on 11/12/2012 1:51:21 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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27 posted on 11/12/2012 1:52:06 PM PST by TrumpisRight (President Palin sounds so good....)
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It’s a lot simpler than that, if you study the philosophical school of material dialecticism. Anything that exists can change and it usually does so by giving rise to its complete opposite. We’re just at a point where the dialectical steamroller is gathering speed.


28 posted on 11/12/2012 1:52:54 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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Is it better to receive half a loaf of bread for doing nothing or to work and earn a whole loaf?


29 posted on 11/12/2012 1:53:22 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Here is my question: why do polls show that Americans think that 25% of Americans are gay when polls of actual gays indicate that less than 3% of Americans are gay?

Answer my question and you answer yours.

-PJ

30 posted on 11/12/2012 1:53:33 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Because it’s easier to do less and grow to be satisfied with what’s being handed out vs taking risks, engaging in hard work and still possibly failing.


31 posted on 11/12/2012 1:55:18 PM PST by Jake8898
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Thats easy. Everyone that isn’t a white man, has been instructed to hate white men and they do! Except some married white gals. Then, after they accept the premise that white men are the reason for anything and everything bad on the planet, they vote for the anti-white man party.

Meanwhile white guys are shaking their head thinking “what the hell? you’re all going to starve!”


33 posted on 11/12/2012 1:55:28 PM PST by The Toll
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The question we won't ask: Why does the U.S. keep moving to the left?

corallary of the second law of thermodynamices: "all societies tend toward maximum rot unless acted upon by intelligently directed energy".

34 posted on 11/12/2012 1:58:05 PM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (The)
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It’s a lot simpler than that, if you study the philosophical school of material dialecticism. Anything that exists can change and it usually does so by giving rise to its complete opposite. We’re just at a point where the dialectical steamroller is gathering speed.


35 posted on 11/12/2012 1:59:05 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint... Proverbs 29:18


36 posted on 11/12/2012 2:00:59 PM PST by Vision (Obama is king of the "Takers." Don't be a "Taker.")
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Brainwashing our youth from grade school, college; adults through MSM & Hollywood.


37 posted on 11/12/2012 2:04:47 PM PST by TexasCajun
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How about media that fills peoples heads with mush
I talked to a woman Friday in my travels that had no clue about Benghazi. She did seem to know Obama was president again


38 posted on 11/12/2012 2:04:52 PM PST by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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Simple, over 1M new third world legal immigrants going straight on the dole. Year after year, every year. I saw the picture of new immigrants taking the oath of citizenship in Minneapolis. I was stunned how many of the women were wearing Habibs.
40 posted on 11/12/2012 2:08:49 PM PST by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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Because we have a bunch of divorced, Godless parents that produced Godless, drug-addled children that vote for the benefits their parent lived off of?


43 posted on 11/12/2012 2:15:43 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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For the same reason Jesus had to die for us - Man is a sorry. sinful creature at heart and Satan rules the roost.


44 posted on 11/12/2012 2:22:01 PM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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It is quite obvious. The people who have their beaks in the comotose body that the United States has become are quite happy. They are being succored by the bloating, decaying body, so they are happy. They control both parties. There is no such thing as a Taft Republican anymore. A country is not a country when it cannot control its borders. The problem with Mexico is that it has been in a civil war/rebellion for decades. If we sealed the southern border, Mexico will blow up.

Recall what the Illiad tells us: The people of the country will pay the price in blood becouse of the poor leadership of their rulers. The rulers most probably will survive with ther mansions, concubines, and money while the citizens bleed in the streets.


48 posted on 11/12/2012 2:27:10 PM PST by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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Think of a battle damaged ship. As the water pours in, the watertight integrity begins to fail.

As the watertight integrity begins to fail, the ship begins to flood faster.

As the ship floods faster, it sinks faster, causing a more rapid disintegration of the watertight integrity.

Basically, a vicious circle.

In our society, conservatives have been calling this the “tipping point”, where the people who take money from those who earn it outnumber those who earn it, and the vicious cycle begins.


50 posted on 11/12/2012 2:35:53 PM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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1. EBT and NFL/NBA/NASCAR/HoneyBooBoo is the new “bread and circuses.”

2. “Idiocracy” explains it all.


56 posted on 11/12/2012 3:03:01 PM PST by EricT. (The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
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We don’t ask because even James Madison knew the answer back when. Government’s natural tendency is to grow. The real unasked question is why we (not just us, but all Americans) no longer jealously guard our liberties.


61 posted on 11/12/2012 3:54:06 PM PST by Tublecane
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