Winning with hatred: The Republican agenda (Barf Alert!)

The Raw Story ^ | November 2004 | Dara Purvis

[The Loan Arranger]

Tuesday night, I went down to the graduate student lounge in my college for an election night “party;” mostly just people camped out in front of the television with snacks and drinks. My idea for this column was to take along my laptop, which I did, and chronicle what an expat election party was like. Advertisement

I figured my fellow Trinity Hall students were good for some amusing and interesting quotes, which they were, and that any British students in attendance might provide a different perspective, which they did, and that even if the night didn’t go my way I could at least make lots of jokes about alcohol consumption.

But somehow I’m not up to editing through that night. I finally left at 6:00 in the morning, and laid awake in bed for half an hour unable to relax. When I finally went to sleep, I dreamed of the Electoral College. Now that, as I write this, I’ve gotten back up after a few hours and taken a painful glance at some news sites, it’s not any better.

What happened?

To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting Kerry to win. But I wasn’t expecting this either. A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed. An attempt to reform the Three Strikes law in California to a more humane standard (and one that most people thought they were voting for when the original proposition passed) failed. The Senate Minority leader ousted for the first time in 52 years. The popular vote not only in Bush’s favor, but a few million people in his favor. The first actual majority vote for a President since his father in 1988.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Well Darla, democracy is a B%tch and so are you....

[weegee]

The latest DNC drumbeat is that people vote Republican "in spite of what is in their best interest". They don't vote for socialists who would "help" them (by allocating their money before they get it, remember the Clintons said that the American public would just waste their money any way). They stand firm on issues of social conservativism like opposition to abortion and the homosexual agenda (because of religious conviction).

[gridlock]

Dara Purvis

Purvis Named Truman Scholar

Student’s dream is to attend Harvard, open a feminist law center.

Dara Purvis, now a senior majoring in theater and political science with a 4.0 GPA, is the latest USC College student to be named a Truman Scholar. The scholarships, named for former U.S. President Harry S. Truman, recognize public service as well as academic achievement. The 77 winners nationwide each received $30,000 for graduate studies.

Purvis is a founding member of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at USC, which has sponsored campus appearances by speakers such as Mavis Leno and Katherine Spillar. She is chairperson of the Academic Culture Initiative Student Advisory Board, and active in USC College Democrats and the Women’s Student Assembly.

“My parents raised my sisters and me to be very socially conscious,” she says. “They raised us to be aware of the problems in the world, and that we have a real obligation to try to make things better for other people.”

Purvis’ father teaches constitutional law at a college near Fresno, and her mother began practicing law three years ago after returning to school for her degree. Purvis grew up in Fresno, where she was a member of her public high school’s award-winning Academic Decathlon Team.

She expects to use the Truman Scholarship for Harvard Law School, her first choice because of its strength in public-interest law. Eventually, Purvis says, she would like to found a feminist law clinic that would harness the resources of a law school’s students and faculty to pursue legal and policy goals through the courts in areas such as abortion rights, health-care discrimination and the gender-wage gap.

Purvis is president of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. “Hopefully, we’ll take over the campus,” she says with a wry smile. Although she finds that some of her fellow students are hostile toward the women’s movement and that even many supporters shy away from the word “feminist,” the organization has grown steadily and accomplished a great deal, she says. She wants the organization to continue working with other student groups on campus to “build more of an activist community at USC.”

Purvis was also a columnist for the Daily Trojan during the past school year, writing regularly on such topics as media bias and the importance of unfettered speech post-Sept. 11. She has taken up fencing with the USC Fencing Club, and she works several hours a week as an SAT tutor at two South Central Los Angeles public high schools.

If it sounds like Purvis is an overachieving drone, think again. For a freshman project, she designed a witty Web page about herself, her family and her friends, complete with stick drawings to illustrate their personalities. A 1999 Fresno Bee article about her high school Academic Decathlon Team lead with a description of Purvis as a “zany spirit into free expression … fun and brainy.”

At that point, Purvis hoped to be an actress. Now, although she still enjoys theater, she says, “There is something about politics and the law that really pulls me.”

Purvis has taken several political science classes from associate professor Howard Gillman, who suspended the usual syllabus for his Law, Politics and Public Policy class in 2000 to track the legal and political maneuverings surrounding the Bush-Gore contest. (Gillman wrote a book about the election as well.) She considers Gillman and Mark Kann, political science professor and director of the Academic Culture Initiative, as her mentors at USC.

“Dara brings a sense of urgency to her studies,” Gillman says. “She understands that a serious engagement with vital political, legal and ethical issues is central to who she is as a person.”

[RightInEastLansing]

This season, Republican operatives stood outside polling places where African-American congregations marched to after their services with signs saying things like “Gay Adoption Now!” matched with an actual Kerry/Edwards sign with a rainbow background.

Shouldn't this help the "progressive" cause? Are the "progressives" against gay adoption? Wow, what a bunch of homophobes!

[weegee]

The problem with the left is they have always been ashamed to be Americans.

LIBERAL GUILT BUMP

Because "they" feel guilty, we must all do as "they" say to make amends.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Funny. Purvis doesn't seem to want to talk to (listen to) conservatives.

But, such hate-filled, lying bile is typical of her/those hypocritical failures in Life.

[weegee]

There are/have been comments there, it appears to be a glitch in the counting...

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/rawstory/dara110704/

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Dara, strike me down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!

LOL

"Strike me down...and I will become more powerful than you ever imagined!"

[superskunk]

They have no argument and they refuse to see it. There's a huge array of successful businesses in this country. If any of them operated the way the tax and spend democrats in govt operate they'd be out of business and probably under indictment.

[Dane]

Religion is indeed the opium of the people. It can be (and has been) twisted and manipulated in order to manipulate culture.

Looks like this poster on Dara's board, has expanded on marx's quote.

Following hillary's lead, IMO, to look more "conservative". People on FR will probably see more of this type of rheotoric(and the bad part is some will buy it) from the left in the next 4 years.

Thank you, Howlin, for bolding and pointing that out in your reply #47.

[superskunk]

Because "they" feel guilty, we must all do as "they" say to make amends


Yes. They fail to acknowledge that we are the most decent, righteous, and generous nation the world has ever seen, yet the misery of fascist nations is somehow our fault. They make me want to puke!!!

[jigsaw]

Did anyone catch what her major is?

If anyone catches it, hopefully there's a cure.

[Howlin]

Dubya won DESPITE THE HATE!

Thank you for saying that! It's so confusing to read crap like this because the hate WAS coming from one direction, theirs.

[rock58seg]

In one paragraph she protests killing animals for fur, and in the next, she is a proponent of killing babies for convenience.

Let us be thankful she is a Progressive and not a liberal.

There is not enough sarcasm in the world to fully do her article justice.

[Rummyfan]

Thanks for digging this up

Purvis is a founding member of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at USC, which has sponsored campus appearances by speakers such as Mavis Leno and Katherine Spillar. She is chairperson of the Academic Culture Initiative Student Advisory Board, and active in USC College Democrats and the Women’s Student Assembly.

A couple of bs committees of which she is president... pure resume padding. Is this what our law schools are producing? Frightening.

[superskunk]

My guess is 'creative' journalism or political pseudoscience.

[TChris]

Comments on selected items from Dara's article:

What happened?

You lost the election. You lost it badly.

A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed.

And so the pathological insinuations begin quickly. Dems just can't help themselves.

The Senate Minority leader ousted for the first time in 52 years. The popular vote not only in Bush’s favor, but a few million people in his favor. The first actual majority vote for a President since his father in 1988.

It is sweet, isn't it?

...if Bush could fraudulently win as a candidate four years ago...

The ubiquitous Democrat self-deluding mantra. Isn't the denial phase of mourning supposed to end eventually? Perpetually staring at hanging chads will make you cross-eyed.

How does a progressive keep going after this?

Either A) She finds lots of like-minded friends and family to prop up her false beliefs, or B) She begins to learn the painful truth: She's wrong.

My father jokes, “Remember the Reagan years, when Republicans were happy to just ignore the poor people?”

And that nasty Reagan went and lifted most of those ignored poor people out of poverty with one of the most vibrant economies in history.

...changing the government’s legal interpretation of the Second Amendment to bring it in line with the NRA for the first time ever.

Changing it to bring it more in line with the original intent of the authors of the Bill of Rights? Sounds like a good move.

Declaring the policy of the United States to be preemptive warfare on their own terms.

Preemptive warfare following repeated attacks on US citizens, at home and abroad, by IslamoTerrorists and the repeated, flagrant violation of all international law by a brutal, narcissistic dictator...if you can truly call that preemptive.

Chipping further and further away at a woman’s right to choose.

Translation: Further affirming an unborn child's right to live and not face summary execution at the hands of a death doctor acting to preserve the mother's carefree lifestyle. Again, good for us!

Making homosexuals the burning effigy to draw out more support.

Translation: Further affirming the sanctity and social importance of the time-honored institution of marriage. Reacting with revulsion to the depraved, frontal assault waged by the professed enemies of marriage and family. May we continue with redoubled effort.

Bush defeated John McCain in the Republican primary by starting a gossip campaign stating that McCain had a black child out of wedlock.

...and I have a hand-typed memo from 1971 from his campaign director proving that Bush was the source of these rumors. The source is unimpeachable.

The politics of hate are no longer a goal; they’re the tactic as well.

Correction: The politics of hate truth are no longer a goal; they’re the tactic as well.

I still can’t quite believe that it’s become acceptable political discourse to stand up and argue that a discrete and insular minority group should have less legal rights than the majority.

I still can't believe the overt perversion of facts necessary to come up with the idea that failure to give additional benefits to an immoral and disease-ridden lifestyle constitutes deprivation of rights. You don't have the right to marry someone of the same sex; I don't have that right either. You may marry someone of the opposite sex and receive exactly the same benefits I receive from marriage. We're equal under the law.

I can’t believe that the politics of hatred and prejudice have become a better election tactic than running on your platform.

The only hatred and prejudice I have seen before, during and after the election have been:

• From the left: Blatant racism in attacks on Dr. Condoleeza Rice and Justice Clarence Thomas.
• From the left: Incessant anti-Christian bigotry and juvenile name-calling aimed at all conservatives and Southerners in particular
• From the right: A pronounced intolerance for B.S. and hypocrisy from the Left and the Legacy Media

Good for us.

I was calling up stores in the mall at 10 years old to say that they shouldn’t sell fur because it killed animals, because I was so sure that if I could just tell them, they would change. I just assumed that people did bad things because they didn’t know that what they were doing was wrong, and if I showed them, they would stop. I don’t know when it finally came home to me that sometimes people do the wrong thing because they didn’t care about injustice, or that they hold values that make an unjust result seem to them worth striving for.

And sometimes people live stridently certain of their innate moral superiority, derived from... their innate moral superiority.

Arguments about making abortion illegal again, and ending all gun control, and continuing and intensifying the oppression of homosexuals provided a rallying cry for the right, and they clung to it even as we sink further into a morass of military casualties, a tanking economy, and systematic destruction of the social programs that progressives fought so hard for fifty years ago.

• Killing another human being should be illegal.
• Ending infringements on the Constitutionally guaranteed right to arms and effective self-defense is a good thing.
• Homosexuality will be its own undoing. The laws of nature don't give a crap about the gay/lesbian protestations about rights and equality; they'll just keep dying from STDs and lack of reproduction anyway. We will, however, do everything we can to prevent the indoctrination of our children with their depraved and destructive propaganda.
• You, dear lady, have no clue what a "morass" is. While we regularly and deeply mourn the loss of every single member of our military killed in action, this war pales in comparison to others that have come before. Talk to a WWII veteran about the word "morass".
• The economy is doing fine, much to Dems' chagrin.
• You mean the steaming, smelly pile of failed social programs left behind by all clear-thinking people who have dared to assess their viability and efficacy? Those programs?

...the closest we ever come is towards the rich white plutocrats oppressing the rest of the country...

Oh, poor you. You live in such a terribly oppressive country. Isn't it horrible that you have the freedom to write such critiques without the likelihood that doing so would mean your children would be executed in front of you? In your excruciating, oppressed life, have you been brutally beaten for showing your ankles in public? To even use the word "oppression" in the USA is a naive, sad joke.

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Dara, your plaintive diatribe serves only to rehash the stale leftovers of the Left: The weak are oppressed. The corporations are taking over the world. The Right-Wing hates everyone who doesn't think like they do. The VRWC stole everything I hold dear in this life. Blah blah blah.

People don't like B.S. served up with a side of whining propaganda even when it's fresh.

[Howlin]

Oh, I see you noticed the same thing I did:

Progressive politics has never really been a discourse of hate—the closest we ever come is towards the rich white plutocrats oppressing the rest of the country, and apparently we can’t point them out as the enemy to the electorate because everyone is too busy wanting (hoplessly) to be them.

She disparages "hate," and then proceeds to well, um, HATE! Rich white plutocrats? Is she talking about us? -)

[sauropod]

You should read the hater comments the Left has on that site.

[superskunk]

Oh.....She's gonna be a John Edwards style ambulance chaser.